Optical Coherence and Quantum Optics - Couverture rigide

Mandel, Leonard; Wolf, Emil

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0521417112 ISBN 13 : 9780521417112

Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 1995

Synopsis

This book presents a systematic account of optical coherence theory within the framework of classical optics, as applied to such topics as radiation from sources of different states of coherence, foundations of radiometry, effects of source coherence on the spectra of radiated fields, coherence theory of laser modes, and scattering of partially coherent light by random media. The book starts with a full mathematical introduction to the subject area and each chapter concludes with a set of exercises. The authors are renowned scientists and have made substantial contributions to many of the topics treated in the book. Much of the book is based on courses given by them at universities, scientific meetings and laboratories throughout the world. This book will undoubtedly become an indispensable aid to scientists and engineers concerned with modern optics, as well as to teachers and graduate students of physics and engineering.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Leonard Mandel is the Lee DuBridge Professor of Physics and Optics at the University of Rochester. His research has been in the general area of optical coherence, lasers and quantum optics and it spins both experimental and theoretical work. Several of his many Ph.D. students have become well known in their fields. Professor Mandel was the first recipient of the Max Born Medal from the Optical Society of America in 1982 ; he received the Marconi Medal from the Italian National Research Council in 1987, the Thomas Young Medal from the (British) Institute of Physics in 1989, and the Ives Medal from the Optical Society of America in 1993. He has been on many editorial boards and committees of the American Physical Society and of the Optical Society of America. In 1992 he was a traveling lecturer in India for the International Commission for Optics, and in 1994 he was elected to membership in the New York Academy of Sciences. Emil Wolf is Wilson Professor of Optical Physics at the University of Rochester. His main areas of research are physical optics, electromagnetic theory and optical coherence theory, and he has published many papers on these and other subjects. He is the co-author, with Max Born, of a well-known test, Principles of Optics, and is the editor of an ongoing review series, Progress in Optics, of which 34 volumes have been published to date. Professor Wolf has received numerous awards for his scientific contributions, including the Ives Medal and the Max Born Medal of the Optical Society of America, the Albert A. Michelson Medal of the Franklin Institute, the Marconi Medal of the Italian National Research Council and a Gold Medal of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences. He is a past president of the Optical Society of America, an honorary member of the Optical Societies of America, India, and Australia, and has been awarded honorary degrees by the University of Groningen (the Netherlands), the University of Edinburgh (Scotland) and Palacky University (the Czech Republic).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Cambridge University Press
• Date d'édition: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0521417112
• ISBN 13: 9780521417112
• Reliure: Relié
• Langue: anglais
• Nombre de pages: 1194
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible