Buch, Englisch, 540 Seiten, Format (B × H): 165 mm x 240 mm
Bridging Ray and Wave Optics via the Wigner Phase-Space Picture
Buch, Englisch, 540 Seiten, Format (B × H): 165 mm x 240 mm
ISBN: 978-0-444-51799-9
Verlag: Elsevier Science & Technology
At a basic level, the book is a complete introduction to the Wigner optics, which bridges between ray and wave optics, offering the optical phase space as the ambience and the Wigner function based technique as the mathematical machinery to accommodate between the two opposite extremes of light representation: the localized ray of geometrical optics and the unlocalized wave function of wave optics.
At a parallel level, the analogies with other branches of both classical and quantum physics, like classical and quantum mechanics, quantum optics, signal theory as well as magnetic optics, are evidenced by pertinent comments and/or rigorous mathematics. So, the Lie algebra and group methods are introduced and explained through the elementary optical systems within both the ray and wave optics contexts, the former being related to the symplectic group and the latter to the metaplectic group. In a like manner, the Wigner function is introduced by following the original issue to individualize a phase space representation of quantum mechanics, which is mirrored by the issue to individualize a local frequency spectrum within the signal theory context.
The basic analogy with the optics of charged particles inherently underlying the ray-optics picture in phase space is also evidenced within the wave-optics picture in the Wigner phase space.
· amalgamation of a great deal of contributions having witnessed the phase space picture of optics over the past 30 years
· introduces abstract concepts through concrete systems
· hosts of figures and logical diagrams to favour intuition and to introduce mathematics
· emphasis on the interrelations with quantum optics, signal theory and magnetic optics
· feeds a feeling for genuine issues in higher mathematics and theoretical physics
Zielgruppe
Researchers in optics, graduate and undergraduate students
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Preface
1. Hamiltonian Picture of Light Optics. First-Order Ray Optics
2. First-Order Optical Systems: The Ray-Transfer Matrix
3. The Group of 1D First-Order Optical Systems
4. Wave-Optical Picture of First-Order Optical Systems
5. 1D First-Order Optical Systems: The Huygens-Fresnel Integral
6. The Wigner Distribution Function: Analytical Evaluation
7. The Wigner Distribution Function: Optical Production
8. 1D First-Order Optical Systems: The Transfer Laws for the Wigner Distribution Function
9. 1D First-Order Optical Systems: Moments of the Wigner Distribution Function.
Index