In the fourty-six years that have gone by since the first volume of Progress in Optics was published, optics has become one of the most dynamic fields of science. The volumes in this series which have appeared up to now contain nearly 300 review articles by distinguished research workers, which have become permanent records for many important developments.
Historical Overview
Attosecond Laser Pulses
History of Conical Refraction
Particle Concept of Light
Field Quantization in Optics
History of Near-Field Optics
History of Tunneling
Influence of Young's Interference Experiment on Development of Statistical optics
Planck, Photon Statistics and Bose-Einstein Condensation
Science & math
About the author
Professor Wolf works at the University of Rochester, NY, USA
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