Current trends in optics

These volumes provide short, up-to-date, authoritative summaries of the status of a wide array of topics in optics, including discussions on future directions of each subject. They will prove interesting and useful not only to optics specialists but also to a wider audience of scientists, engineers and managers who need to grasp the essential current trends in optics. This book is the second in the series initiated by the International Commission for Optics (ICO) and comprises 21 chapters spanning a wide range of basic research and applications. Particular highlights include: four chapters on fundamental optical physics: Atomic Optics, Single Atoms in Traps, Squeezed Light and Localization of Light; two chapters on recent progress in scattering; three chapters on modern microscopy: Confocal Microscopy, Near-field Microscopy and Super-resolving Microscopy; and two concluding chapters on Diagnosing the Hubble Space Telescope Aberration and Laser Beacon Adaptive Optics. The authors are all leaders in their respective fields making this one of the most comprehensive and informative reviews available.