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. Active Optical Metamaterials Sebastian Wuestner and Ortwin Hess 2. Spontaneous Parametric Down-Conversion in Nonlinear Layered Structures Jan Peřina Jr. 3. Spatial Heterodyne Fourier-Transform Waveguide Spectrometers Aitor V. Velasco, Pavel Cheben, Mirosław Florjańczyk and Maria L. Calvo 4. Precursors and Dispersive Pulse Dynamics, a Century after the Sommerfeld-Brillouin Theory: Part I. The Original Theory Natalie A. Cartwright and Kurt E. Oughstun 5. The Role of Coherence in Image Formation in Holographic Microscopy Radim Chmelik, Michala Slaba, Vera Kollarova, Tomas Slaby, Martin Lostak, Jana Collakova and Zbynek Dostal