Progress in Optics (eBook)

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1997 | 1. Auflage
440 Seiten
Elsevier Science (Verlag)
978-0-08-087997-0 (ISBN)

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Progress in Optics Volume 37

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This volume presents six articles describing theoretical and experimental research of interest in optics. The articles review applications of the Wigner distribution function in optics and optoelectronics, examine the mathematical foundations and the applicability of Kramers-Kronig relations to data inversion in linear and nonlinear optical spectroscopy and explore concentration and anisotropy fluctuations. Chapter four reviews the field of fibre-optical soliton communication systems, and includes discussion of periodic amplification, timing jitter and its control and time-division multiplexing. Chapter five focuses on theoretical aspects of the local field electrodynamics in mesoscopic media. The final chapter reviews experiments and theories concerning the time it takes for a photon or an electromagnetic wave packet to tunnel across a barrier.

Inhalt

Front Cover 1
Progress in Optics, Volume XXXVII 4
Copyright Page 5
CONTENTS 8
CHAPTER I. THE WIGNER DISTRIBUTION FUNCTION IN OPTICS AND OPTOELECTRONICS 14
1. Introduction 16
2. Light Propagation in Phase Space 17
3. Wigner Distribution Function 19
4. Light Beam Characterization in First-Order Optical Systems with the Wigner Distribution Function 26
5. Optical System Characterization with the Wigner Distribution Function 33
6. Wigner Distribution Function Representation of the Coupling Efficiency 39
7. The Fractional Wigner Distribution Function 45
8. Optical Beam Characterization in Nonlinear Optical Systems 51
9. Complex Field Reconstruction from the Wigner Distribution Function 57
10. Wigner Distribution Function in Quantum Optics 62
11. Conclusions 66
References 66
CHAPTER II. DISPERSION RELATIONS AND PHASE RETRIEVAL IN OPTICAL SPECTROSCOPY 70
1. Introduction 72
2. Kramers–Kronig Relations 75
3. Phase Retrieval in Optical Spectroscopy 86
4. Sum Rules 99
5. Conclusions 104
Acknowledgements 105
References 105
CHAPTER III. SPECTRA OF MOLECULAR SCATTERING OF LIGHT 108
1. Introduction 110
2. The Fluctuations Of Thermodynamic Quantities 112
3. Spectra Of Molecular Light Scattering Arising From Pressure Fluctuations .e(P). Equilibrium Phenomena 115
4. Spectra Of Molecular Light Scattering Arising From Pressure Fluctuations .e (P). Some Nonequilibrium Phenomena 137
5. Spectra of Molecular Light Scattering Arising from Isobaric Entropy Fluctuations .e(S) and from Concentration Fluctuatio .e(C) 145
6. Spectra of Molecular Light Scattering Arising from Anisotropy Fluctuations .e(.ik) 164
7. About Some Problems 190
References 191
CHAPTER IV. SOLITON COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS 198
1. Introduction 200
2. Optical Solitons in Fibers 201
3. Soliton-Based Communication Systems 207
4. Average-Soliton Regime 212
5. Quasi-Adiabatic Regime 228
6. Distributed Amplification 232
7. Dispersion-Decreasing Fibers 234
8. Dispersion Management 240
9. Channel Multiplexing 246
10. Dark-Soliton Communication Systems 257
List of Symbols 260
List of Acronyms 264
References 265
CHAPTER V. LOCAL FIELDS IN LINEAR AND NONLINEAR OPTICS OF MESOSCOPIC SYSTEMS 270
1. Introduction 272
2. Local Fields and Nonlocal Optics 278
3. Local Fields in Mesoscopic Media with Strongly Localized Electron Orbitals 305
4. Local Field Electrodynamics in Quantum Wells and Thin Films 318
5. 2D Spatial Confinement of Light by Optical Phase Conjugation 337
Acknowledgements 350
References 350
CHAPTER VI. TUNNELING TIMES AND SUPERLUMINALITY 358
1. Introduction 360
2. A Brief History of Tunneling Times 363
3. Tunneling and Its Optical Analogs 372
4. Optical Experiments on Tunneling Times 377
5. New Theoretical Progress 396
6. Tunneling in de Broglie Optics 398
7. Superluminality and Inverted Atoms 400
8. Why Is Einstein Causality Not Violated? 409
9. Conclusion 413
Acknowledgments 414
Note added in proof 414
References 414
Author Index 420
Subject Index 434
Contents of previous volumes 438
Cumulative Index 446

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 26.11.1997
• Mitarbeit: Herausgeber (Serie): Emil Wolf
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Optik
• Themenwelt: Technik
• ISBN-10: 0-08-087997-7 / 0080879977
• ISBN-13: 978-0-08-087997-0 / 9780080879970