Progress in Optics

In the 50 years 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 that have appeared up to now contain more than 300 review articles by distinguished research workers, which have become permanent records for many important developments, helping optical scientists and optical engineers stay abreast of their fields.

1. The Microscope in a Computer: Image Synthesis from Three-Dimensional Full-Vector Solutions of Maxwell's Equations at the Nanometer Scale

Ilker R. Capoglu, Jeremy D. Rogers, Allen Taove, Vadim Backman

2. Microstructures and Nanostructures in Nature

Dora Kroisova

3. Quantitative Phase Imaging

Mustafa Mir, Basanta Bhaduri, Ruoyu Zhu, and Gabriel Popescu

4. Tight Focusing of Light Beams: Effect of Polarization, Phase and Coherence

Ziyang Chen, Limin Hua, and Jixiong Pu

5. Direct and Inverse Problems in the Theory of Light Scattering