aspects of modern coherence theory are studied in quantum optics. The theory of partial coherence was awoken in the 1930s due to work by Pieter Hendrik van...

Coherence theory may refer to Coherence theory (optics), the study of optical effects arising from partially coherent electromagnetic radiation Coherence...

Optical Coherence and Quantum Optics. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-41711-2. Arvind Marathay (1982). Elements of Optical Coherence Theory. John...

studied in the sub-branch of coherence theory. Physical optics is also the name of an approximation commonly used in optics, electrical engineering and...

light. Higher order coherence or n-th order coherence (for any positive integer n>1) extends the concept of coherence to quantum optics and coincidence experiments...

indices of refraction (list) Information theory Integrated optics Interference Interferometry Inverse problem in optics Inverse-square law Iridescence International...

physics, coherence length is the propagation distance over which a coherent wave (e.g. an electromagnetic wave) maintains a specified degree of coherence. Wave...

Optical coherence tomography (OCT) is an imaging technique that uses interferometry with short-coherence-length light to obtain micrometer-level depth...

Quantum Optics. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 052152735X. The Nobel Prize in Physics 2005 L. Mandel, E. Wolf Optical Coherence and Quantum Optics (Cambridge...

plane wave, as actually both devices turn reduced temporal coherence or spatial coherence, respectively, of the beam into decoherence of its polarization...

Principles of Optics, colloquially known as Born and Wolf, is an optics textbook written by Max Born and Emil Wolf that was initially published in 1959...

physical optics, including diffraction, coherence properties of optical fields, spectroscopy of partially coherent radiation, and the theory of direct...

Optics began with the development of lenses by the ancient Egyptians and Mesopotamians, followed by theories on light and vision developed by ancient Greek...

Descartes's theory of light is regarded as the start of modern physical optics. Pierre Gassendi (1592–1655), an atomist, proposed a particle theory of light...

correlated is called the coherence length. In order for interference to occur, the path length difference must be smaller than the coherence length. This is sometimes...

Nobel Prize in Physics "for his contribution to the quantum theory of optical coherence", with the other half shared by John L. Hall and Theodor W. Hänsch...

mathematical physics Quantum field theory Quantum optics Quantum amplifier Electromagnetic field Degree of coherence Quantum states of the light field...

Quantum decoherence is the loss of quantum coherence. Quantum decoherence has been studied to understand how quantum systems convert to systems which...

Angle-resolved low-coherence interferometry (a/LCI) is an emerging[when?] biomedical imaging technology which uses the properties of scattered light to...

Photons Nonlinear Optics. CRC Press. ISBN 978-2-88124-669-2. Lavoie, J.; Kaltenbaek, R.; Resch, K. J. (2009-03-02). "Quantum-optical coherence tomography with...

Leonard Ornstein Coherence theory Fourier optics Live cell imaging Optical aberration Phase-contrast X-ray imaging Physical optics Tolansky, S. (1967)...

are significant. Important applications of quantum theory include quantum chemistry, quantum optics, quantum computing, superconducting magnets, light-emitting...

color centers. Biomedical optics Coherence theory Fiber optics Quantum optics Laser physics Polarization Non-linear optics Laser-based nuclear fusion...

problem". Gbur does research on the merging of singular optics with optical coherence theory. This work is aimed at improving free-space optical communications...

are spatial coherence and spectral coherence. While spatial coherence is related to the beam divergence of the laser, spectral coherence is evaluated...

Coherence and Quantum Optics (Cambridge 1995) L. Mandel, E. Wolf Optical Coherence and Quantum Optics (Cambridge 1995) R. Loudon The Quantum Theory of...

Lamb Award for Laser Science and Quantum Optics, "for pioneering contributions to the theory of coherence phenomena ranging from super-radiance to ultra-cold...

Optical coherence elastography (OCE) is an emerging imaging technique used in biomedical imaging to form pictures of biological tissue in micron and submicron...

physicists Pieter Hendrik van Cittert and Frits Zernike, is a formula in coherence theory that states that under certain conditions the Fourier transform of...

Endoscopic optical coherence tomography, also intravascular optical coherence tomography is a catheter-based imaging application of optical coherence tomography...