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SCATTERING AND DIFFRACTION IN PHYSICAL OPTICS
Second Edition

by Manuel Nieto-Vesperinas (Instituto de Ciencia de Materiales de Madrid, Spain)

This book presents a comprehensive tutorial on propagation, diffraction and scattering problems from the basic principles of physical optics. Beginning with the fundamental differential and integral equations for wavefields, the text presents an exhaustive discussion on the extinction theorem as a non-local boundary condition; this has been extensively employed for the rigorous solution of scattering and diffraction problems.

There is also an in-depth presentation of the topic of scattering from rough surfaces, in particular the phenomenon of enhanced backscattering, as well as a detailed development of the angular spectrum representation of fields leading to questions on non-diffraction beams. Of key interest in near field optical microscopy and nanooptics, the S-matrix theory based on the angular spectrum for propagating components and the recently discovered properties of the S-matrix for evanescent components of wavefields are considered. In addition, the book deals with the healing effect of phase conjugation on waves, and focuses on some applications concerning the relationship with time reversal.

Readers will also find discussions on image recovery from partial information data (phase problems and super-resolution problems), as well as a chapter on the fundamentals of near field optical microscopy techniques, including the hot topic of propagation in negative index media.


Contents:

  • Basic Equations for Electromagnetic Fields
  • Angular Spectrum Representation of Wavefields
  • Radiated and Scattered Fields
  • Mathematical Properties of Radiated and Scattered Fields
  • S-Matrix and Reciprocity
  • Elements of the Theory of Diffraction
  • Scattering from Rough Surfaces
  • Propagation and Scattering of Phase-Conjugate Wavefields
  • Inverse Diffraction
  • Inverse Source and Scattering Problems in Optics
  • Fundamentals of Near Field Optics (NFO)


Readership: Postgraduates and researchers interested in electromagnetic waves, electromagnetic optics and photonics.

456pp Pub. date: Jun 2006
ISBN 978-981-256-340-8
981-256-340-7
US$86 / £49
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