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In General > s.a. Geometrical Optics.
* Development: 1980s,
New interest in non-linear optics from gravitational lensing; 1998, First
results in relativistic non-linear optics, with electrons accelerated and
scattered by high power lasers ("non-linear Thomson scattering")
moving in looping motions and emitting harmonics of the laser light
[@ Chen et al Nat(98)dec
+ pn(98)dec].
* Approaches: Light
propagation is a wave phenomenon and its exact treatment is in terms of
solutions of the wave equations for the electric and magnetic fields obtained
from the Maxwell equations in a medium, or by the quantized electromagnetic
field; However, in the small-wavelength approximation, it can be effectively
described by geometrical optics (or ray optics).
@ Reviews, status: news pw(01)sep;
Pathak & Ghatak a1705 [classical and non-classical, and applications].
@ Texts: Rossi 57;
Welford 91 [applications, instruments];
Born & Wolf 99;
Hecht 02 [IIb];
Brooker 03;
Siciliano 06 [IIb, problems];
Dereniak & Dereniak 08 [r CP(10)];
Kenyon 11;
Pedrotti 3 17.
@ Non-linear: issue PT(94)may;
Mills 98 [r PT(99)sep];
Garmire AJP(11)mar [RL];
New PRS(11) [the first 50 years];
New 11 [intro];
Powers 11
[intro, r PT(12)oct];
Kuzyk et al PRP(13) [sum rules and scaling];
Picozzi et al PRP(14) [statistical, non-equilibrium thermodynamics formulation];
Drummond & Hillery 14 [quantum];
> s.a. Lasers.
@ Other modified frameworks: Makris et al PRL(08) [in non-Hermitian, PT-symmetric potential].
Related areas: see atomic physics;
history of physics; physics teaching;
solid matter [optical properties]; light;
mirrors and optical technology.
Wave-related effects: see diffraction;
dispersion; interference;
polarization [birefringence, dichroism, optical activity].
Effects and Related Topics
* Optical lattice: A sets of
crossed laser beams that trap arrays of atoms in an egg-carton-like potential.
@ General references: Leonhardt NJP(09) [perfect imaging without negative refraction];
Small & Lam AJP(11)jun [simple derivation of eikonal approximation];
Ghose & Mukherjee RTS-a1308 [entanglement].
@ Applications: Singer pw(04)feb [visual effects];
Mansuripur 09;
Chang 11 [attosecond optics].
> Other related topics: see Coherence;
Fermat's Principle; Optical Magnus Effect.
And Curved Geometry
@ Geometric optics: Gatland AJP(02)dec [thin-lens ray tracing];
> s.a. Contact Geometry; finsler geometry;
gravitational phenomenology.
@ Optical geometry: (a.k.a. Fermat geometry) Sonego et al PRD(00)gq [collapse, and black-hole radiation];
Rosquist NCB(02) [neutron stars and black holes];
Abramowicz & Sonego 04;
Westman & Jonsson CQG(06)gq/04;
Balakin & Zimdahl GRG(05)gq [and birefringence];
Sonego & Abramowicz JMP(06)gq/05 [and electromagnetic self-force];
Jonsson CQG(06)-a0708 [across the horizon];
Fino et al a2009 [and intrinsic torsion];
> s.a. forces [inertial].
@ Specific spacetimes: Stuchlík et al CQG(00)-a0803 [Kerr-Newman black hole];
Kovar & Stuchlík CQG(07)gq [Kerr-de Sitter black hole];
Bloomer a1111 [Kerr spacetime, and lensing];
> s.a. black-hole geometry; reissner-nordström solutions.
> Related topics:
see decomposition; maxwell fields in curved spacetime.
Quantum Optics
> s.a. modified gravity [PPN parameters]; photon;
quantum-gravity phenomenology; wigner functions.
* Idea: It includes the photoelectric
effect, and other effects depending on the particle nature of light.
* Hong-Ou-Mandel effect: A two-photon
interference effect in quantum optics demonstrated in 1987 by Chung Ki Hong, Zhe Yu
Ou and Leonard Mandel; > s.a. Wikipedia
page.
@ Texts: Klauder & Sudarshan 65;
Vogel & Welsch 94;
Walls & Milburn 94;
Mandel & Wolf 95;
Barnett & Radmore 97;
Scully & Zubairy 97;
Peng & Li 98;
Carmichael 99 [statistical methods];
Yamamoto & İmamoğlu 99 [mesoscopic];
Puri 01 [mathematical methods];
Schleich 01;
Prykarpatsky et al 02 [and quantum field theory];
Vedral 05;
Gerry & Knight 04 [r AJP(05)dec];
Fox 06 [r PT(07)sep];
Meystre & Sargent 07;
Chiao & Garrison 08;
Orszag 08;
Grynberg et al 10;
Leonhardt 10;
Agarwal 12;
Milonni 19 [and quantum fluctuations].
@ Coherent states: Hwang JKPS-qp/05 [vs number-state pictures];
Gazeau a1810-in [rev].
@ General references: Klyshko SPU(94) [rev];
Skagerstam qp/99-ln;
Agarwal FdP(02)qp-conf [and uncertainty relations];
Marecki PRA(02)qp [squeezing and inequalities];
Czachor & Syty qp/02 [non-canonical];
Janowicz PRP(03) [multiple-scales method];
Dell'Anno et al PRA(04)qp/03,
PRA(04)qp/03 [multiphoton, canonical],
PRP(06) [multiphoton];
Gies JPA(08) [in strong external fields];
Shih 11 [introduction];
Chatterjee et al a1812 [Sudarshan's contributions];
Banerjee & Jayannavar a1902 [current trends];
Cantu et al a1911 [repulsive photons].
@ Related topics: Reid & Walls PRL(84) [violation of Bell's inequalities];
Brandes PRP(05) [collective effects in mesoscopic systems];
Brańczyk a1711 [Hong-Ou-Mandel effect, intro];
Kockum a1912-proc [with giant atoms, rev];
Aspect proc(19)-a2005 [landmark experiments];
> s.a. types of quantum measurements.
> Electromagnetically-induced transparency:
see Wikipedia page.
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