Progress in Optics (Volume 50)

In the fourty-six 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 volumes in this series which have appeared up to now contain nearly 300 review articles by distinguished research workers, which have become permanent records for many important developments.Historical OverviewAttosecond Laser PulsesHistory of Conical RefractionParticle Concept of LightField Quantization in OpticsHistory of Near-Field OpticsHistory of TunnelingInfluence of Young's Interference Experiment on Development of Statistical opticsPlanck, Photon Statistics and Bose-Einstein Condensation