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"Progress in Optics" was published by Elsevier in 2020 - San Diego, it has 222 pages and the language of the book is English.


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  • Title: Progress in Optics
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  • Language: English
  • Number of Pages: 222
  • Publisher: Elsevier
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  • Publish Location: San Diego

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Intro -- Progress in Optics: A Tribute to Emil Wolf -- Copyright -- Contents -- Contributors -- Preface -- Chapter One: Memories of my father -- Chapter Two: Emil Wolf and Bristol -- 1. Education and early science in Bristol -- 2. Later interactions with Bristol University -- References -- Chapter Three: Partial coherence in modern optics: Emil Wolf´s legacy in the 21st century -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Wolf´s classic development of the theory of partial coherence -- 3. OCT based on partial coherence -- 4. Role of partial coherence in HBT-like measurements -- 5. HBT as two-photon interference and correlations of light fields from nonclassical sources -- 6. Ghost imaging with thermal sources -- 7. Speckle illumination imaging-Advantages of intensity-intensity correlations -- 8. Superresolution microscopy via intensity correlations and structured illumination -- 9. Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Chapter Four: Applications of optical coherence theory -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Coherence fundamentals -- 3. Astronomy -- 4. Intensity interferometry -- 5. Ghost imaging -- 6. Optical coherence tomography -- 7. Tomography -- 8. Beam propagation in natural turbulent media -- 9. Partially coherent imaging -- 10. Speckle mitigation in coherent optical systems -- 11. Inertial confinement fusion -- 12. Beam shaping -- 13. Trapping and manipulation -- 14. Coherence beyond light waves -- 15. Electromagnetic coherence -- 16. Sunlight coherence and photovoltaics -- 17. Concluding remarks -- References -- Chapter Five: Optical coherence and electromagnetic surface waves -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Surface-wave impacts on thermal field coherence -- 2.1. Thermal light fields -- 2.2. Spatial correlation changes -- 2.3. Spectral changes -- 2.4. Polarization changes -- 2.5. Highly directional thermal beams

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