The material is presented by major experts in the field, many of them closely connected to Emil Wolf's Institute of Optics at University of Rochester.
Contents
- Preface
- KMJ
- List of Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Guide, Philosopher, and Friend
- Recollections of Max Born
- What Polarization of Light Is: The Contribution of Emil Wolf
- Electromagnetic Theory of Optical Coherence
- Physical Optics at Physical Optics Corporation
- Microscopic Origin of Spatial Coherence and Wolf Shifts
- Paradigm for a Wave Description of Optical Measurements
- Millimeter Wave MMIC Hologram Beam Former
- Digital Holographic Microscopy
- Colored Shadows: Diffractive-Optical Cross-Correlations in the Human Eye: the Missing Link between Physics and Psychology, Newton and Goethe
- The Wolf Effect in Rough Surface Scattering
- Emil Wolf and Optics in the Czech Republic
- Optical Pathlength Spectroscopy
- The Diffractive Multifocal Focusing Effect
- Young's Interference Experiment: The Long and Short of It
- Qualitative Description of the Wolf Effect and Differences between the Doppler and the Wolf Shifts
- The Significance of Phase and Information
- Local Interface Techniques in Wave-Optical Engineering
- Backward Thinking: Holography and the Inverse Problem
- Several Controversial Topics in Contemporary Optics: Dispersive Pulse Dynamics and the Question of Superluminal Pulse Velocities
- Total Internal Reflection Tomography for Three-Dimensional Subwavelength Imaging
- Nano-optics: Atoms in the Near Field
- Coherence Issues in Flatland
- References
- Index
