Progress in Optics
Published on 21. September 2011
305 pages
978-0-08-087976-5 (ISBN)
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Progress in Optics
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- Front Cover
- Progress in Optics, Volume XIII
- Copyright Page
- CONTENTS
- PREFACE
- CHAPTER I. ON THE VALIDITY OF KIRCHHOFF'S LAW OF HEAT RADIATION FOR A BODY IN A NONEQUILIBRIUM ENVIRONMENT
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Fundamental Laws and Definitions
- 3. Stimulated Emission Treated as Negative Absorption
- 4. Stimulated Emission not Considered as Negative Absorption
- 5. Some Experimental Results
- 6. Conclusions
- 7. Acknowledgements
- References
- CHAPTER II. THE CASE FOR AND AGAINST SEMICLASSICAL RADIATION THEORY
- 1. Introduction
- 2. The Photoelectric Effect
- 3. Relation between Semiclassical Theories of Photodetection and Q.E.D.
- 4. Spontaneous Emission of Light according to Neoclassical Theory
- 5. Resonance Fluorescence
- 6. Fluorescence Effects in Multi-Level Atoms
- 7. Polarization Correlations in an Atomic Cascade
- 8. Momentum Transfer Experiments
- 9. Interference Experiments
- 10. Conclusion
- References
- CHAPTER III. OBJECTIVE AND SUBJECTIVE SPHERICAL ABERRATION MEASUREMENTS OF THE HUMAN EYE
- 1. Introduction
- 2. The Anatomy of the Optical Elements of the Eye
- 3. The Basic Concepts of Spherical Aberration
- 4. Historical Introduction to the Measurement of the Spherical Aberration of the Eye
- 5. Subjective Aberration Measurements of the Eye
- 6. Objective Aberration Measurements of the Eye
- 7. Conclusions
- References
- CHAPTER IV. INTERFEROMETRIC TESTING OF SMOOTH SURFACES
- 1. Introduction
- 2. RelativeTesting by Comparing Two Surfaces
- 3. Absolute Testing by Comparing Several Surfaces
- 4. Comparing a Surface with Itself
- 5. Comparing a Surface with a Hologram
- 6. Some Systematic Sources of Error and Limits of Measurement
- References
- Supplementary Notes Added in Proof
- CHAPTER V. SELF FOCUSING OF LASER BEAMS IN PLASMAS AND SEMICONDUCTORS
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Phenomenological Theory of Field Dependent Dielectric Constant
- 3. Kinetic Theory of Field Dependent Dielectric Constant
- 4. Steady State Self Focusing of EM Beams in Plasmas
- 5. Nonsteady State Self Focusing
- 6. Growth of Instability
- 7. Experimental Investigations on Self Focusing
- References
- CHAPTER VI. APLANATISM AND ISOPLANATISM
- 1. Introduction
- 2. The Abbe Sine Condition
- 3. Axial Isoplanatism
- 4. Isoplanatism with no Axis of Symmetry
- 5. Isoplanatism in Holography
- References
- Addendum
- AUTHOR INDEX
- SUBJECT INDEX
- CUMULATIVE INDEX - VOLUMES I-XIII
