Progress in Optics

In the almost fifty years That have gone by since the first volume of Progress in Optics was published, optics has become one of the most dynamic fields of science. The more important thing in this article is to make a permanent record for many important developments.

• Invariant Optical Fields


• Quantum Optics in Structured Media


• Polarization and Coherence Optics


• Optical Quantum Computation


• Photonic Crystals


• Lase Beam-Splitting Gratings

1. Propagation-Invariant Optical Fields (J. Turunen and AT Friberg). 2. Theoretical tools for quantum optics in structured media (D. Mogilevtsev and S. Kilin). 3. Polarization and Coherence Optics: Historical Perspective, Status, and Future Directions (C. Brosseau). 4. Optical Quantum Computation (TC Ralph and GJ Pryde). 5. Science and Engineering of Photonic Crystals (K. Sakoda and JW Haus). 6. The Mathematical Theory of Laser Beam-Splitting Gratings (LA Romero and FM Dickey)