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Selected Works of Emil Wolf: With Commentary

By Emil Wolf

Book information

Publisher
World Scientific
Year
2001
ISBN
9789810242046, 9810242042
Google Books ID
10tqDQAAQBAJ
Language
english
Format
DJVU
Filesize
16 MB (16816585 bytes)
Pages
673\672
DPI
300
Time added
2024-08-04 16:05:38

Description

This invaluable book presents most of the important papers of Emil Wolf, published over half-a-century. It covers chiefly diffraction theory (especially the analysis of the focal region), the theory of direct and inverse scattering, phase-space methods in quantum mechanics, the foundation of radiometry, phase conjugation and coherence theory. Several papers which have become classics of the optical literature are included, such as those on Wolf's rigorous formulation of the theory of partial coherence and partial polarization, the introduction of diffraction tomography, and his discovery of correlation-induced shifts of spectral lines (often called the Wolf effect). There are also papers dealing with the historical development of optics and some review articles.

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