:bridging ray and wave optics via the Wigner phase-space picture
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/ Amalia Torre
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1st ed.
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Amsterdam ; Boston
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: Elsevier,
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, 2005.
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xiii, 526 p. , ill. , 25 cm.
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Electronic
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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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 : transfer laws for the Wigner distribution function -- 9. 1D first-order optical systems : moments of the Wigner distribution function.