Front Cover; Progress in Optics, Volume XIX; Copyright Page; Contents; Preface; CHAPTER I. THEORY OF INTENSITY DEPENDENT RESONANCE LIGHT SCATTERING AND RESONANCE FLUORESCENCE; 1. Introduction; 2. Description of the Electromagnetic Field; 3. Scattering Spectrum for a Closed Two-Level System with Radiative Relaxation; 4. Collisional Relaxation; 5. Multilevel Atom with Two Laser-Coupled States; References; CHAPTER II. SURFACE AND SIZE EFFECTS ON THE LIGHT SCATTERING SPECTRA OF SOLIDS; 1. Introduction; 2. Light Scattering from Opaque Media and Films of Finite Thickness

Qualitative Considerations3. Surface and Guided Wave Polaritons; 4. Light Scattering from Surface and Guided Wave Polaritons; 5. Surface and Size Effects on Brillouin Scattering from Acoustical Phonons and Spin Waves; 6. Light Scattering as a Microscopic Probe of the Surface Region; 7. Concluding Remarks; References; CHAPTER III. LIGHT SCATTERING SPECTROSCOPY OF SURFACE ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES IN SOLIDS; 1. Introduction; 2. Surface Polaritons in Different Geometries; 3. Raman Scattering by Surface Polaritons; 4. Experimental Results; 5. Effects of Surface Roughness; 6. Concluding Remarks

AcknowledgementsAppendix: Derivation of the Disposal Relation for Surface Polaritons and Guided-wave Polaritons in a Double Interface Geometry; References; CHAPTER IV. PRINCIPLES OF OPTICAL DATA-PROCESSING; 1. Introduction; 2. Field Theory of Optical Systems; 3. System-theoretical Approach to Coherent Optical Signal Processors; 4. Partially Coherent Illumination; 5. Basic System Constraints; 6. Examples of Physical and Abstract Systems; 7. Operational Notation of Optical Systems and Basic Cascade Equivalences; 8. Operational Analysis of Optical Systems

9. Systems Compounded of Lenses and Sections of Free Space (LG-systems)10. Shift-invariant Systems: Coherent Versus Incoherent Illumination; 11. Related Topics; References; CHAPTER V. THE EFEECTS OF ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE IN OPTICAL ASTRONOMY; 1. Introduction; 2. Statistical Properties of Atmospheric Turbulence; 3. Statistical Properties of the Perturbed Complex Field; 4. Long-Exposure Images; 5. Short-Exposure Images; 6. Exposure-Time and Non-Isoplanicity Effects; 7. Optical Path Fluctuations; 8. Stellar Scintillation; 9. Applications to High Resolution Imaging

10. Seeing Monitors and Site Testing11. Conclusion; References; AUTHOR INDEX; SUBJECT INDEX; CUMULATIVE INDEX -- VOLUMES I-XIX