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Progress in optics. Volume XVIII /
Progress in Optics Volume 18.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
North-Holland Pub. Co.,
1980.
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| Colección: | Progress in optics ;
v. 18. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Front Cover; Progress in Optics, Volume XVIII; Copyright Page; Contents; Preface; Chapter I. GRADED INDEX OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES: A REVIEW; 1. Introduction; 2. Ray Analysis; 3. Modal Analysis; 4. Pulse Dispersion; 5. Power Attenuation; 6. Leaky Modes; 7. Coherence Theory in Fiber Optics; 8. Inhomogeneous Media as Image Relays and Lens Waveguides; 9. Fabrication and Index Profile Measurement of Inhomogeneous Core Waveguides; Acknowledgements; Appendix A: Validity of Geometrical Optics; Appendix B: Retinal Receptors as Waveguide Elements.
- Appendix C: Relationship Between Modal and Geometric Optics AnalysisReferences; Chapter II. PHOTOCOUNT STATISTICS OF RADIATION PROPAGATING THROUGH RANDOM AND NONLINEAR MEDIA; 1. Introduction; 2. Review of Statistical Properties of the Superposition of Coherent and Chaotic Fields; 3. Quantum Statistics of Radiation in Random Media; 4. Quantum Statistics of Radiation in Nonlinear Media; 5. Conclusion; Acknowledgement; References; Chapter III. STRONG FLUCTUATIONS IN LIGHT PROPAGATION IN A RANDOMLY INHOMOGENEOUS MEDIUM; 1. Introduction.
- 2. Equations for the Moments of a Wave Field in a Randomly Inhomogeneous Medium3. Mean Field and the Coherence Function G2; 4. Intensity Fluctuations; 5. Asymptotic Solution for the Regime of Strong Intensity Fluctuations; 6. The Limits of Applicability of the Markov Approximation for the Higher Moments of the Field; 7. Numerical Solution for the Fourth Moment of the Field; Comparison with Experiment and the Asymptotic Theory; 8. Conclusion; References; Chapter IV. CATASTROPHE OPTICS: MORPHOLOGIES OF CAUSTICS AND THEIR DIFFRACTION PATTERNS; 1. Introduction.
- 2. Catastrophe Theory and Stable Caustics3. Diffraction Catastrophes; 4. The Geometry of Wavefronts and their Normals; 5. Liquid Droplet Lenses; 6. Caustic Networks; 7. Statistical Catastrophe Optics; 8. Concluding Remarks; Acknowledgements; Appendix 1: Wavefronts; Appendix 2: Primary Aberrations; References; AUTHOR INDEX; SUBJECT INDEX; CUMULATIVE INDEX
- VOLUMES I-XVIII.