Progress in optics Vol. XXXII /
Progress in Optics Volume 32.
| Other Authors: | Wolf, Emil., Charnotskii, M. I., ScienceDirect (Online service) |
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Amsterdam :
North-Holland,
1993.
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| Physical Description: |
1 online resource (xviii, 385 pages) : illustrations. |
| Series: |
Progress in Optics.
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Table of Contents:
- Front Cover; Progress in Optics, Volume XXXII; Copyright Page; Contents; CHAPTER I. GUIDED-WAVE OPTICS ON SILICON: PHYSICS, TECHNOLOGY AND STATUS; 1. Introduction; 2. Physics and Analysis of Optical Waveguides; 3. Technology of Silicon-Based Optical Waveguides; 4. Guided-wave Optical Components on Silicon; 5. Active Waveguides on Silicon; 6. Conclusions; Acknowledgement; References; CHAPTER II. OPTICAL NEURAL NETWORKS: ARCHITECTURE, DESIGN AND MODELS; 1. Introduction; 2. Optical Associative Memory; 3. Optical Neural Networks; 4. Neural Network Models.
- 5. Redundant Interconnection Neural Networks 6. Optical Implementation of Hamming Nets; 7. Information Storage Capacity; 8. Self-organizing Optical Neural Networks; 9. Conclusion; References; CHAPTER III. THE THEORY OF OPTIMAL METHODS FOR LOCALIZATION OF OBJECTS IN PICTURES; 1. Introduction; 2. The Accuracy and Reliability of the Localization of Two-Dimensional Objects on a Plane; 3. Localization of Objects on a Complex Background with a Minimum of Anomalous Errors; 4. Conclusion; Acknowledgements; References.
- CHAPTER IV. WAVE PROPAGATION THEORIES IN RANDOM MEDIA BASED ON THE PATH-INTEGRAL APPROACH 1. Introduction; 2. Problem Formulation and Governing Equations; 3. Introduction to Path Integrals; 4. Path-Integral Representations of Wave Fields in Inhomogeneous Media; 5. Path-Integral Representations of Moments; 6. The Connection Between Heuristic Approximations and Path-Integral Representations; 7. Conclusions; Acknowledgements; References.
- CHAPTER V. RADIATION BY UNIFORMLY MOVING SOURCES Vavilov-Cherenkov effect, Doppler effect in a medium, transition radiation and associated phenomena 1. Introduction; 2. Vavilov-Cherenkov Effect for a Charge; 3. Quantum Theory of the Vavilov-Cherenkov Effect; 4. Vavilov-Cherenkov Radiation in the Case of Motion in Channels and Gaps; 5. Vavilov-Cherenkov Radiation for Electric, Magnetic and Toroidal Dipoles; 6. Classical and Quantum Theories of the Doppler Effect in a Medium; 7. Acceleration Radiation; 8. Transition Radiation at the Boundary between two Media.
- 9. Transition Radiation as a more general Phenomenon. Formation Zone 10. Transition Scattering. Transition Bremsstrahlung; 11. Transition Radiation, Transition Scattering and Transition Bremsstrahlung in a Plasma; 12. Concluding Remarks; References; CHAPTER VI. NONLINEAR OPTICAL PROCESSES IN ATOMS AND IN WEAKLY RELATIVISTIC PLASMAS; 1. Introduction; 2. Laser Light Polarization Effects; 3. Resonance Effects; 4. Laser Temporal-Coherence Effects in Nonresonant Multiphoton Ionization of Atoms; 5. Laser Temporal-Coherence Effects in Resonant Multiphoton Ionization of Atoms.