Front Cover; Progress in Optics, Volume XL; Copyright Page; Contents; Preface; CHAPTER I. POLARIMETRIC OPTICAL FIBERS AND SENSORS; 1. Introduction; 2. Polarization Phenomena in Optical Fibers; 3. Birefringence in Optical Fibers; 4. Deformation Effects in Highly Birefringent Fibers; 5. Application of Polarization Effects; 6. Conclusions and Future Perspectives; Acknowledgements; References; CHAPTER II. DIGITAL OPTICAL COMPUTING; 1. Introduction; 2. Basic Concepts; 3. Logic Gates; 4. Methods for Logic Construction; 5. Demonstration Systems; 6. Software Research; 7. Further Directions

8. ConclusionReferences; CHAPTER III. CONTINUOUS MEASUREMENTS IN QUANTUM OPTICS; 1. Introduction; 2. The Mandel and Srinivas-Davies Approaches to Modeling Photodetection; 3. Reversibility and Irreversibility of Photocounting; 4. Models of Continuous Measurement; 5. Probability-density Functional for Quantum Photodetection Processes; 6. Quasicontinuous Schemes of Photodetection; 7. Special States of an Optical Mode by Means of Continuous and Nearly Continuous Measurements on this Mode; 8. Production of Correlated Photons

9. Conditional Generation of Special States Using Ideal State Reduction of Entangled Fields10. Special States of One or Two Optical Modes by Means of Continuous Measurement on a Different Mode; 11. Eigenvalue Problems for Intelligent States Generated in Ideal and Continuous Measurements; 12. Conclusion; Acknowledgements; Appendix A. Superoperator-valued Measure and Related Concepts; Appendix B. Itô's Calculus Without Itô's Differential; References; CHAPTER IV. OPTICAL SYSTEMS WITH IMPROVED RESOLVING POWER; 1. Introduction

2. The Space-Bandwidth Product (SW) As a Tool for Super Resolution Studies3. Super Resolution as SW Adaptation; 4. Super Resolution Based on Temporal Constraints; 5. The Generalized Wigner Function for the Analysis of Super-Resolution Systems; 6. Super Resolution for Objects With Finite Size; 7. Wavelength-Multiplexing Super Resolution; 8. Conclusions; List of Abbreviations and Symbols; Acknowledgements; References; CHAPTER V. DIFFRACTIVE OPTICS: ELECTROMAGNETIC APPROACH; 1. Introduction; 2. Some Resonance-Domain Effects; 3. Electromagnetic Theory of Gratings

4. Linear Gratings Operating in First-Order Mode5. Linear Gratings Operating in Zeroth-Order Mode; 6. Modulated Gratings Operating in First-Order Mode; 7. Modulated Gratings Operating in Zeroth-Order Mode; 8. Gratings Operating in Multi-Order Mode; 9. Conclusions; References; CHAPTER VI. SPECTROSCOPY IN POLYCHROMATIC FIELDS; 1. Introduction; 2. Subharmonic Resonances; 3. Theoretical Methods; 4. Bichromatic Fields; 5. Polychromatic Fields,P=3; Acknowledgments; References; Author Index; Subject Index; Contents of Previous Volumes; Cumulative Index