Cover; Progress in Opticles, Volume II; Copyright Page; TOCContents; Preface; CHCHAPTER I. RULING, TESTING AND USE OF OPTICAL GRATINGS FOR HIGH-RESOLUTION SPECTROSCOPY; 1. INTRODUCTION; 2. QUALITY OF GRATINGS REQUIRED FOR HIGH-RESOLUTION SPECTROSCOPY; 3. THE ATTAINMENT OF HIGH-RESOLUTION GRATINGS BY RULING UNDER INTERFEROMETRIC CONTROL; 4. HIGH-RESOLUTION GRATINGS IN COMPARISON WITH FABRY-PEROT ETALONS IN SPECTROMETERS AND SPECTROGRAPHS; 5. HIGH-RESOLUTION GRATING SPECTROMETERS AND SPECTROGRAPHS; 6. REPLICA GRATINGS; 7. FURTHER IMPROVEMENTS IN THE QUALITY AND BLAZE OF DIFFRACTION GRATINGS

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTSREFERENCES; CHCHAPTER II. THE METROLOGICAL APPLICATIONS OF DIFFRACTION GRATINGS; 1. INTRODUCTION TO MOIRÉ FRINGE TECHNIQUES AND THEIR APPLICATIONS; 2. THE FORMATION OF MOIRÉ FRINGE SIGNALS; 3. DESIGN OF MOIRÉ FRINGE EQUIPMENT; 4. CONCLUSION; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; LIST OF SYMBOLS; REFERENCES; CHCHAPTER III. DIFFUSION THROUGH NON-UNIFORM MEDIA; 1. INTRODUCTION; 2. THE EQUATION OF RADIATIVE TRANSFER IN NON-UNIFORM MEDIA; 3. MODEL PROBLEMS; 4. THE INTERPRETATION OF OBSERVATIONS; 5. DISCUSSION; REFERENCES

CHCHAPTER IV. CORRECTION OF OPTICAL IMAGES BY COMPENSATION OF ABERRATIONS AND BY SPATIAL FREQUENCY FILTERING1. INTRODUCTION; 2. CORRECTION OF ABERRANT IMAGES BY ABERRATION COMPENSATING FILTER; 3. CORRECTION OF ABERRANT IMAGES BY DOUBLE DIFFRACTION METHOD; 4. USE OF ABERRATION COMPENSATING FILTER IN DOUBLE DIFFRACTION METHOD; 5. CONCLUDING REMARKS; REFERENCES; CHCHAPTER V. FLUCTUATIONS OF LIGHT BEAMS; 1. HISTORICAL INTRODUCTION; 2. THE WAVE PICTURE OF LIGHT; 3. PRACTICAL APPLICATIONS OF FLUCTUATION MEASUREMENTS; 4. THE PARTICLE PICTURE

5. BUNCHING EFFECTS AND PHOTO-ELECTRIC COINCIDENCE EXPERIMENTSACKNOWLEDGEMENT; APPENDICES; REFERENCES; CHCHAPTER VI. METHODS FOR DETERMINING OPTICAL PARAMETERS OF THIN FILMS; 1. INTRODUCTION; 2. NON-ABSORBING THIN FILMS; 3. ABSORBING THIN FILMS; 4. VERY WEAKLY ABSORBING THIN FILMS; 5. INHOMOGENEOUS FILMS; 6. BIREFRINGENT THIN FILMS; 7. FINAL REMARKS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; REFERENCES; AUTHOR INDEX; IDXSUBJECT INDEX