Optics

In General
* Development: 1980s, New interest in non-linear optics from gravitational lensing; 1998, First results in relativistic non-linear optics, with e's 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].
@ Reviews, status: news pw(01)sep.
@ Texts: Rossi 57; Welford 91 [applications, instruments]; Born & Wolf 99; Hecht 02 [IIb]; Brooker 03; Siciliano 06 [IIb, problems].
@ Non-linear: issue PT(94)may; Mills 98 [r PT(99)sep].
@ Other modified frameworks: Makris et al PRL(08) [in non-Hermitian, PT-symmetric potential].
@ Applications: Singer pw(04)feb [visual effects].
@ Related topics: Leonhardt NJP(09) [perfect imaging without negative refraction].
> Related topics: see atomic physics; Fermat's Principle; light; optical technology.

Effects > see Coherence; diffraction; dispersion; Optical Magnus Effect; polarization [birefringence, dichroism, optical activity].

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]; Abramowicz & Sonego 02; Rosquist NCB(02) [neutron stars and black holes]; 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]; > s.a. forces [inertial].
@ Specific spacetimes: Stuchlík et al CQG(00)-a0803 [Kerr-Newman]; Kovar & Stuchlík CQG(07)gq [Kerr-de Sitter]; > s.a. black holes, reissner-nordström.
> Related topics: see decomposition; maxwell fields in curved spacetime.

Quantum Optics > s.a. photon; quantum-gravity phenomenology.
* Idea: Includes the photoelectric effect, and other effects depending on the particle nature of light.
@ 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]; Meystre & Sargent 99; Yamamoto & Imamoglu 99 [mesoscopic]; Orszag 00; Puri 01 [mathematical methods]; Schleich 01; Prykarpatsky et al 03 [and quantum field theory]; Vedral 05; Gerry & Knight 05 [r AJP(05)dec]; Fox 06 [r PT(07)sep].
@ General references: Klyshko SPU(94) [rev]; Skagerstam qp/99-ln; Agarwal FdP(02)qp-in [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].
@ Related topics: Reid & Walls PRL(84) [violation of Bell's inequalities]; Hwang JKPS-qp/05 [coherent-state vs number-state pictures]; Brandes PRP(05) [collective effects in mesoscopic systems].

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