This book gives a complete survey of the state of the art in optical sciences. World-wide leading experts present the current topics and results in the field of optics and lasers. This book is compiled by the International Commission of Optics, the international umbrella organization of the national optical societies.

Survey of the state of the art of research in the field of optics and lasers, edited and authorized by the International Commission of Optics, the international umbrella organization of national optical societies Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Inhalt
Fundamental Optics (General, Physical and Quantum Optics).- Optical Twist.- Principles and Fundamentals of Near Field Optics.- Spin-Orbit Interaction of a Photon: Theory and Experimentation on the Mutual Influence of Polarization and Propagation.- Atoms and Cavities: The Birth of a Schrödinger Cat of the Radiation Field.- Quantum Tomography of Wigner Functions from Incomplete Data.- Information Optics.- Some New Aspects of the Resolution in Gaussian Pupil Optics.- Multichannel Photography with Digital Fourier Optics.- Holographic Optics for Beamsplitting and Image Multiplication.- Image Restoration, Enhancement and Target Location with Local Adaptive Linear Filters.- Fuzzy Problem for Correlation Recognition in Optical Digital Image Processing.- Optical Communication (Photonics and Optoelectronics).- All-Optical Regeneration for Global-Distance Fiber-Optic Communications.- Non-quantum Cryptography for Secure Optical Communications.- Optical Materials and Processing.- Pulsed Laser Deposition: An Overview.- Absolute Scale of Quadratic Nonlinear-Optical Susceptibilities.- Optical Technologies.- Femtosecond Fourier Optics: Shaping and Processing of Ultrashort Optical Pulses.- Aperture-modulated Diffusers (AMDs).- Optical Properties of Quasiperiodic Structures: Linear and Nonlinear Analysis.- Optical Metrology (Optical Systems).- Diffractive Optical Elements in Materials Inspection.- Multiple-Wavelength Interferometry for Absolute Distance Measurement.- Speckle Metrology: Some Newer Techniques and Applications.- Limits of Optical Range Sensors and How to Exploit Them.- Imaging Spectroscopy for the Non-invasive Investigation of Paintings.- Biomedical Optics.- Optical Coherence Tomography in Medicine.- The Spectral Optimization of Human Vision: Some Paradoxes, Errors andResolutions.- Others.- Optical Methods for Reproducing Sounds from Old Phonograph Records.