Front Matter

Table of Contents

• Front Matter

• Beam Optics
• 1. First-Order Optical Systems for Information Processing

• 2. Applications of the Wigner Distribution to Partially Coherent Light Beams

• 3. Characterization of Elliptic Dark Hollow Beams

• 4. Transfer of Information Using Helically Phased Modes

• Laser Photonics and Components
• 5. Microoptical Components for Information Optics and Photonics

• 6. Intracavity Coherent Addition of Lasers

• 7. Light Confinement in Photonic Crystal Microcavities

• 8. Limits to Optical Components

• Electromagnetic Coherence
• 9. An Overview of Coherence and Polarization Properties for Multicomponent Electromagnetic Waves

• 10. Intrinsic Degrees of Coherence for Electromagnetic Fields

• Imaging, Microscopy, Holography, and Materials
• 11. Digital Computational Imaging

• 12. Superresolution Processing of the Response in Scanning Differential Heterodyne Microscopy

• 13. Fourier Holography Techniques for Artificial Intelligence

• 14. Division of Recording Plane for Multiple Recording and Its Digital Reconstruction Based on Fourier Optics

• 15. Fundamentals and Advances in Holographic Materials for Optical Data Storage

• 16. Holographic Data Storage in Low-Shrinkage Doped Photopolymer

• Photonic Processing
• 17. Temporal Optical Processing Based on Talbot's Effects

• 18. Spectral Line-by-Line Shaping

• 19. Optical Processing with Longitudinally Decomposed Ultrashort Optical Pulses

• 20. Ultrafast Information Transmission by Quasi-Discrete Spectral Supercontinuum

• Quantum Information and Matter
• 21. Noise in Classical and Quantum Photon-Correlation Imaging

• 22. Spectral and Correlation Properties of Two-Photon Light

• 23. Entanglement-Based Quantum Communication

• 24. Exploiting Optomechanical Interactions in Quantum Information

• 25. Optimal Approximation of Nonphysical Maps via Maximum Likelihood Estimation

• 26. Quantum Processing Photonic States in Optical Lattices

• 27. Strongly Correlated Quantum Phases of Ultracold Atoms in Optical Lattices

• Communications and Networks
• 28. The Intimate Integration of Photonics and Electronics

• 29. Echelle and Arrayed Waveguide Gratings for WDM and Spectral Analysis

• 30. Silicon Photonics—Recent Advances in Device Development

• 31. Toward Photonic Integrated Circuit All-Optical Signal Processing Based on Kerr Nonlinearities

• 32. Ultrafast Photonic Processing Applied to Photonic Networks

• Back Matter