Progress in Optics
Elsevier (Publisher)
Published on 22. September 2011
382 pages
978-0-08-087985-7 (ISBN)
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Progress in Optics
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- Front Cover
- Progress in Optics, Volume V
- Copyright Page
- CONTENTS
- PREFACE
- CHAPTER I. OPTICAL PUMPING
- 1. INTRODUCTION
- 2. PRINCIPLES OF OPTICAL PUMPING
- 3. RESULTS OBTAINED BY OPTICAL PUMPING
- 4. PRACTICAL APPLICATIONS OF OPTICAL PUMPING
- 5. EXTENSIONS OF OPTICAL-PUMPING TECHNIQUES
- REFERENCES
- CHAPTER II. NON-LINEAR OPTICS
- 1. INTRODUCTION
- 2. MAXWELL'S EQUATIONS
- 3. NON-LINEAR SOURCE TERMS
- 4. METHODS FOR SOLVING THE WAVE EQUATION
- 5. EXPERIMENTS
- 6. CONCLUSION
- ACKNOWLEDGMENT
- REFERENCES
- CHAPTER III. TWO-BEAM INTERFEROMENTRY
- 1. INTRODUCTION
- 2. COHERENCE THEORY
- 3. MEASUREMENTS OF AVERAGE PHASE
- 4. MEASUREMENTS OF PHASE VARIATIONS
- 5. INTERFERENCE SPECTROSCOPY
- 6. STUDIES OF SPATIAL DISTRIBUTIONS
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- REFERENCES
- CHAPTER IV. INSTRUMENTS FOR THE MEASURING OF OPTICAL TRANSFER FUNCTIONS
- 1. INTRODUCTION
- 2. SCANNING METHOD WITH OPTICAL FOURIER ANALYSIS
- 3. SCANNING METHOD WITH OPTO-ELECTRIC FOURIER ANALYSIS
- 4. SCANNING METHOD WITH ELECTRIC FOURIER ANALYSIS
- 5. AUTO-CORRELATION METHOD
- 6. CROSS-CORRELATION METHOD
- 7. MEASUREMENT OF OTF AT A CERTAIN SPATIAL FREQUENCY
- 8. CONCLUSION
- ACKNOWLEDGMENT
- REFERENCES
- CHAPTER V. LIGHT REFLECTION FROM FILMS OF CONTINUOUSLY VARYING REFRACTIVE INDEX
- 1. INTRODUCTION
- 2. BASIC THEORY OF ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES IN STRATIFIED MEDIA
- 3. APPROXIMATE METHODS
- 4. SOME GENERAL THEOREMS CONCERNING STRATIFIED MEDIA
- 5. INFLUENCE OF SMALL INHOMOGENEITIES ON OPTICAL MEASUREMENTS
- 6. STRONGLY INHOMOGENEOUS SINGLE LAYERS
- 7. CONCLUDING REMARKS
- REFERENCES
- CHAPTER VI. X-RAY CRYSTAL-STRUCTURE DETERMINATION AS A BRANCH OF PHYSICAL OPTICS
- 1. GENERAL PRINCIPLES
- 2. OPTICAL ANALOGUE METHODS
- 3. THEORETICAL TREATMENT OF SCATTERING
- 4. THE RELATION BETWEEN THE GEOMETRIES OF THE DIFFRACTION OF LIGHT AND OF X-RAYS
- 5. OPTICAL EQUIVALENCE
- 6. APPARATUS
- 7. PROCEDURE IN USING OPTICAL METHODS
- 8. RELATIONSHIP WITH OTHER METHODS
- 9. INTERPRETATION OF WEIGHTED RECIPROCAL LATTICES
- 10. IMAGE RECOMBINATION
- 11. RECENT DEVELOPMENTS AND FUTURE POSSIBILITIES
- 12. OTHER USES OF THE DIFFRACTOMETER
- 13. CONCLUSIONS
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- APPENDIX: RELATIONSHIP TO BRAGG'S LAW
- REFERENCES
- CHAPTER VII. THE WAVE OF A MOVING CLASSICAL ELECTRON
- 1. THE OSCILLATORY FIELD OF AN ELECTRON IN ITS REST SYSTEM
- 2. THE WAVE OF AN ELECTRON WHlCH IS MOVING AT A CONSTANT VELOCITY
- 3. THE 'SURFACES OF EQUAL AMPLITUDE' AND THE 'RADIATION-DENSITY'
- 4. THE WAVE EQUATION OF THE MOVING ELECTRON
- 5. THE WAVE EQUATION FOR THE INTERIOR OF A MAVING ELECTRON
- 6. THE INHOMOGENEOUS WAVE OF THE ELECTRON REGARDED AS A SUPERPOSITION OF A DOUBLY INFINITE FAMILY OF (INHOMOGENEOUS) PLANE WAVES (WITH PLANE 'SURFACES OF EQUAL AMPLITUDE') PLANE WAVES (WITH PLANE 'SURFACES OF EQUAL AMPLITUDE') AND AS A SUPERPOSITION OF A SINGLY INFINITE FAMILY OF HEAD-WAVES
- 7. THE WAVE OF A MOVING ELECTRON REGARDED AS A SUPERPOSITION OF 'WAVE-GROUPS', OR OF 3 'PLANE WAVES' OF CONSTANT AMPLITUDE, BUT OF DIFFERENT FREQUENCIES
- 8.THE RELATIVISTIC 'APPARENT ABSORPTION' OF SPACE
- ACKNOWLEDGMENT
- REFERENCES
- AUTHOR INDEX
- SUBJECT INDEX
