光的相干与偏振理论导论（英文影印版）

图书标准信息

• 作者 [美]沃尔夫（E. Wolf） 著
• 出版社 北京大学出版社
• 出版时间 2014-08
• 版次 1
• ISBN 9787301245484
• 定价 41.00元
• 装帧 平装
• 开本 16开
• 纸张 胶版纸
• 页数 240页
• 字数 286千字
• 丛书 中外物理学精品书系

【内容简介】

　　所有的光场都是随机涨落的，有些光场的随机涨落很小，例如许多激光器输出的光；有些光场的随机涨落相当大，例如从热光源辐射的光。描述涨落光场的基础理论是相干理论。部分偏振现象就是涨落的重要表现。实际上，相干理论所能处理的问题不仅限于涨落。与常规的处理方法不同，相干理论是依据可观测量描述光场，并解释这些可观测量，例如光的光谱以及它在传输中如何变化的。
　　《光的相干与偏振理论导论（英文影印版）》给出了光的相干与偏振现象的统一处理方法。适合光通信、激光光束在光纤中和通过湍流大气传输、光学成像，尤其在显微镜成像（例如医学诊断）的物理界和工程界的研究者阅读。

【作者简介】

　　(美)沃尔夫（E.Wolf），美国罗彻斯特大学教授。

【目录】

Prefacepagexi
1.Elementarycoherencephenomena1
1.1Interferenceandstatisticalsimilarity1
1.2Temporalcoherenceandthecoherencetime4
1.3Spatialcoherenceandthecoherencearea5
1.4Thecoherencevolume8
Problems10
2.Mathematicalpreliminaries11
2.1Elementaryconceptsofthetheoryofrandomprocesses11
2.2Ergodicity17
2.3Complexrepresentationofarealsignalandtheenvelope
ofanarrow-bandsignal19
2.4Theautocorrelationandthecross-correlationfunctions22
2.4.1Theautocorrelationfunctionofafinitesumofperiodic
componentswithrandomamplitudes24
2.5ThespectraldensityandtheWiener-Khintchinetheorem25
Problems29
3.Second-ordercoherencephenomenainthespace-timedomain31
3.1Interferencelawforstationaryopticalfields.Themutual
coherencefunctionandthecomplexdegreeofcoherence31
3.2Generationofspatialcoherencefromanincoherentsource.
ThevanCittert-Zerniketheorem37
3.3Illustrativeexamples46
3.3.1Michelson'smethodformeasuringstellardiameters46
3.3.2Michelson'smethodfordeterminingenergydistribution
inspectrallines51
3.4Propagationofthemutualintensity54
3.5Waveequationsforthepropagationofmutualcoherenceinfreespace56
Problems58
4.Second-ordercoherencephenomenainthespace-frequencydomain60
4.1Coherent-moderepresentationandthecross-spectraldensity
asacorrelationfunction60
4.2Thespectralinterferencelawandthespectraldegreeofcoherence63
4.3Anillustrativeexample:spectralchangesoninterference69
4.4Interferenceofnarrow-bandlight73
Problems76
5.Radiationfromsourcesofdifferentstatesofcoherence79
5.1Fieldsgeneratedbysourceswithdifferentcoherenceproperties79
5.2Correlationsandthespectraldensityinthefarfield81
5.3Radiationfromsomemodelsources88
5.3.1Schell-modelsources88
5.3.2Quasi-homogeneoussources90
5.4Sourcesofdifferentstatesofspatialcoherencewhichgenerate
identicaldistributionsoftheradiantintensity95
5.5CoherencepropertiesofLambertiansources97
5.6Spectralchangesonpropagation.Thescalinglaw102
Problems108
6.Coherenceeffectsinscattering111
6.1Scatteringofamonochromaticplanewaveonadeterministicmedium111
6.2Scatteringofpartiallycoherentwavesonadeterministicmedium115
6.3Scatteringonrandommedia118
6.3.1Generalformulas118
6.3.2Examples121
6.3.3Scatteringonaquasi-homogeneousmedium123
Problems127
7.Higher-ordercoherenceeffects129
7.1Introduction129
7.2Intensityinterferometrywithradiowaves131
7.3TheHanburyBrown-Twisseffectandintensityinterferometrywithlight134
7.4Einstein'sformulaforenergyfluctuationsinblackbodyradiation
andthewave-particleduality140
7.5Mandel'stheoryofphotoelectricdetectionoflightfluctuations143
7.5.1Mandel'sformulaforphotocountstatistics143
7.5.2Thevarianceofcountsfromasinglephotodetector145
7.5.3Correlationbetweencountfluctuationsfromtwodetectors147
7.6Determinationofstatisticalpropertiesoflightfromphotocount
measurements149
Problems151
8.Elementarytheoryofpolarizationofstochasticelectromagneticbeams154
8.1The2_2equal-timecorrelationmatrixofaquasi-monochromatic
electromagneticbeam154
8.2Polarized,unpolarizedandpartiallypolarizedlight.Thedegree
ofpolarization158
8.2.1Completelypolarizedlight158
8.2.2Natural(unpolarized)light160
8.2.3Partiallypolarizedlightandthedegreeofpolarization161
8.2.4Thegeometricalsignificanceofcompletepolarization.TheStokes
parametersofcompletelypolarizedlight.ThePoincarésphere165
Problems171
9.Unifiedtheoryofpolarizationandcoherence174
9.1The2_2cross-spectraldensitymatrixofastochastic
electromagneticbeam174
9.2Thespectralinterferencelaw,thespectraldegreeofcoherence
andthespectraldegreeofpolarizationofstochastic
electromagneticbeams175
9.3Determinationofthecross-spectraldensitymatrixfromexperiments179
9.4Changesinrandomelectromagneticbeamsonpropagation181
9.4.1Propagationofthecross-spectraldensitymatrixofastochastic
electromagneticbeam-generalformulas181
9.4.2Propagationofthecross-spectraldensitymatrixofan
electromagneticGaussianSchell-modelbeam183
9.4.3Examplesofcorrelation-inducedchangesinstochastic
electromagneticbeamsonpropagation186
9.4.4Coherence-inducedchangesofthedegreeofpolarization
inYoung'sinterferenceexperiment191
9.5GeneralizedStokesparameters194
Problems197
Appendices202
ICellsofphasespaceandthedegeneracyparameter202
(a)Cellsofphasespaceofaquasi-monochromaticlightwave(Section1.4)202
(b)Cellsofphasespaceofradiationinacavity(Sections7.4and7.5)204
(c)Thedegeneracyparameter206
IIDerivationofMandel'sformulaforphotocountstatistics
[Eq.(2)ofSection7.5.1]208
IIIThedegreeofpolarizationofanelectromagneticGaussian
Schell-modelsource210
IVSomeimportantprobabilitydistributions212
(a)Thebinomial(orBernoulli)distributionandsomeofitslimitingcases212
(b)TheBose-Einsteindistribution214
Authorindex216
Subjectindex220