Progress in Optics

In the thirty-seven years of the year, I have never heard of you. At the time, the first lasers were only operational, it was operational, and it was not operational. The term photonics had not yet been coined. Today these fields are studying and many engineers throughout the world. Some Nobel Prizes to Seven Physicists in the last twenty years. What are the main trends in the development of many important developments? They have helped optical scientists and optical engineers to stay abreast of their fields. There is no sign that developments in optics are slowing down or becoming less interesting.

- Gaussian apodization and beam propagation
- Electromagnetically-induced transparency
- Three-dimensional electromagnetic fields
- Quantum cryptography
- Optical quantum cloning

Preface
1. Gaussian Apodization and Beam Propagation, V. Mahajan
2. Control of Nonlinear Optical Processes in Multi-level Atomic Systems, A. Joshi and M. Xiao
3. Photonic Crystals, H. Benisty and C. Weisbuch
4. Symmetry Properties and Polarization Descriptors for an Arbitrary Electromagnetic Wavefield, C. Brosseau and A. Dogariu
5. Quantum Cryptography, M. Dusek, N. Lutkenhaus and M. Hendrych
6. Optical Quantum Cloning, NJ Cerf and J. Fiurasek
Author index for Volume 49
Subject index for Volume 49
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