Bridging Ray and Wave Optics via the Wigner Phase-Space Picture
by
Amalia Torre
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2005
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...