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  title info:
    title: Linear ray and wave optics in phase space
    sub title: bridging ray and wave optics via the Wigner phase-space picture
  name:
    name part: Torre, A.
    role:
      role term: creator
  name:
    name part: ScienceDirect (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: ne
    place:
      place term: Amsterdam
    place:
      place term: Boston
    publisher: Elsevier
    date issued: 2005
    edition: 1st ed.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (xiii, 526 pages) : illustrations
  abstract: Ray, wave and quantum concepts are central to diverse and seemingly incompatible models of light. Each model particularizes a specific ''manifestation'' of light, and then corresponds to adequate physical assumptions and formal approximations, whose domains of applicability are well-established. Accordingly each model comprises its own set of geometric and dynamic postulates with the pertinent mathematical means. At a basic level, the book is a complete introduction to the Wigner optics, which bridges between ray and wave optics, offering the optical phase space as the ambience and the Wigner function based technique as the mathematical machinery to accommodate between the two opposite extremes of light representation: the localized ray of geometrical optics and the unlocalized wave function of wave optics. At a parallel level, the analogies with other branches of both classical and quantum physics, like classical and quantum mechanics, quantum optics, signal theory as well as magnetic optics, are evidenced by pertinent comments and/or rigorous mathematics. So, the Lie algebra and group methods are introduced and explained through the elementary optical systems within both the ray and wave optics contexts, the former being related to the symplectic group and the latter to the metaplectic group. In a like manner, the Wigner function is introduced by following the original issue to individualize a phase space representation of quantum mechanics, which is mirrored by the issue to individualize a local frequency spectrum within the signal theory context. The basic analogy with the optics of charged particles inherently underlying the ray-optics picture in phase space is also evidenced within the wave-optics picture in the Wigner phase space. amalgamation of a great deal of contributions having witnessed the phase space picture of optics over the past 30 years introduces abstract concepts through concrete systems hosts of figures and logical diagrams to favour intuition …
  table of contents: Preface -- 1. Hamiltonian Picture of Light Optics. First-Order Ray Optics -- 2. First-Order Optical Systems: The Ray-Transfer Matrix -- 3. The Group of 1D First-Order Optical Systems -- 4. Wave-Optical Picture of First-Order Optical Systems -- 5. 1D First-Order Optical Systems: The Huygens-Fresnel Integral -- 6. The Wigner Distribution Function: Analytical Evaluation -- 7. The Wigner Distribution Function: Optical Production -- 8. 1D First-Order Optical Systems: The Transfer Laws for the Wigner Distribution Function -- 9. 1D First-Order Optical Systems: Moments of the Wigner Distribution Function. -- Index.
  note: Amalia Torre.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    topic: Wave theory of light
  subject:
    topic: Wigner distribution
  subject:
    topic: Geometrical optics
    topic: Mathematics
  subject:
    topic: Théorie ondulatoire de la lumière
  subject:
    topic: Distribution de Wigner
  subject:
    topic: Optique géométrique
    topic: Mathématiques
  subject:
    topic: SCIENCE
    topic: Physics
    topic: Optics & Light
  subject:
    topic: Geometrical optics
    topic: Mathematics
  subject:
    topic: Wave theory of light
  subject:
    topic: Wigner distribution
  classification: QC403 .T67 2005eb
  classification: 535/.13
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    title info:
      title: Linear ray and wave optics in phase space
    name:
      name part: Torre, A.
    origin info:
      publisher: Amsterdam ; Boston : Elsevier, 2005
      edition: 1st ed.
    identifier: (DLC) 2005051367
    identifier: (OCoLC)60835684
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  identifier: 108999:109045 Elsevier Science & Technology
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  record info:
    record content source: OPELS
    record creation date: 070802
    record change date: 20260326150233.9
    record identifier: in00005731563
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng