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Progress in optics Volume 43 /
Progress in Optics Volume 43.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam :
North-Holland Pub. Co.,
2002.
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| Colección: | Progress in Optics.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Front Cover; Progress in Optics, Volume 43; Copyright Page; Contents; Preface; Chapter 1. Active optics in modern large optical telescopes; 1. Introduction; 2. Principles of active optics; 3. Relationship between active-optics components and parameters; 4. Wavefront sensing; 5. Minimum elastic energy modes; 6. Support of large mirrors; 7. Alignment; 8. Modification of the telescope optical configuration; 9. Active-optics design for the NTT, the VLT and the Keck telescope; 10. Practical experience with active optics at the NTT, the VLT and the Keck telescope; 11. Existing active telescopes
- 12. OutlookAcknowledgements; References; Chapter 2. Variational methods in nonlinear fiber optics and related fields,; 1. Introduction; 2. Dynamics of solitons in a single-mode nonlinear optical fiber or waveguide; 3. Variational approximation for the inverse scattering transform; 4. Internal dynamics of vector (two-component) solitons; 5. Spatially nonuniform fibers and dispersion management; 6. Solitons in dual-core optical fibers; 7. Bragg-grating (gap) solitons; 8. Stable beams in a layered focusing-defocusing Kerr medium; 9. Conclusion; Acronyms adopted in the text; Acknowledgements
- 3. Macroscopic theories and their applications4. Microscopic theories; 5. Microscopic models as related to macroscopic concepts; 6. Conclusions; Acknowledgments; References; Chapter 5. Phase space correspondence between classical optics and quantum mechanics,; 1. Introduction; 2. The phase space in classical optics and quantum mechanics; 3. Definitions and properties of phase space distribution functions; 4. Nonclassical states in phase space; 5. Measurement procedures of phase space distribution functions in quantum mechanics and classical optics
- 6. Propagation of classical fields and quantum states in phase space7. Interactions of classical fields and quantum states as phase space overlap; 8. Classical and quantum interference in phase space; 9. Universality of the phase space treatment; 10. Conclusions; References; Chapter 6. ""Slow"" and ""fast"" light; 1. Elementary concepts; 2. Optical pulse propagation in a resonant system; 3. Nonlinear optics for slow light; 4. Experimental studies of slow light; 5. Experimental studies of fast light; 6. Discussion and conclusions; Acknowledgements; References