Cover; Progress in Optics, Volume IV; Copyright Page; PREFACE; TOCCONTENTS; CHCHAPTER I. HIGHER ORDER ABERRATION THEORY; 1. INTRODUCTION; 2. MODERN FOKMULATION OF SCHWARZSCHILD'S ABERRATION THEORY; 3. THE SCHWARZSCHILD-SMITH ABERRATION COEFFICIENTS; 4. THE INTRINSIC COEFFIClENTS OF A REFRACTING SURFACE; 5. THE HERZBERGER ABERRATION COEFFICIENTS; REFERENCES; CHCHAPTER II. APPLICATIONS OF SHEARING INTERFEROMETRY; 1. INTRODUCTION; 2. EXAMINATION OF OPTICAL COMPONENTS; 3. STUDIES OF ILLUMINATION PROPERTIES; 4. EXAMINATION OF LARGE TRANSPARENT OBJECTS

5. STUDIES OF PHYSICO-CHEMICAL PHENOMENA IN LIQUIDS6. EXAMINATION OF MICROSCOPIC OBJECTS; REFERENCES; CHCHAPTER III. SURFACE DETERIORATION OF OPTICAL GLASSES; 1. INTRODUCTION; 2. SOME OBSERVATIONS ON CORROSION OF GLASS BY SOLUTIONS; 3. CRYSTALLITES GROWN ON THE GLASS SURFACE; 4. STRUCTURE AND PROPERTIES OF THE AOYAKE LAYER; 5. CONCLUSION; REFERENCES; CHCHAPTER IV. OPTICAL CONSTANTS OF THIN FILMS; 1. OPTICAL CONSTANTS AND STRUCTURE OF TRANSPARENT THIN FILMS; 2. OPTICAL CONSTANTS OF ABSORBING THIN FILMS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENT; REFERENCES; CHAPTER V. THE MIYAMOTO-WOLF DIFFRACTION WAVE

THE HISTORY OF THE DIFFRACTION WAVESECTION I. THE SCALAR DIFFRACTION THEORY; 1. THE HELMHOLZ-HUYGENS PRINCIPLE; 2. DIFFRACTION WAVE FOR AN ARBITRARY INCIDENT WAVE; 3. THE MIYAMOTO-WOLF DERIVATION OF THE VECTOR POTENTIAL W(P, Q); 4. SIMPLE DERIVATION OF THE VECTOR POTENTIAL W(P, Q); 5. VECTOR POTENTIAL W(P, Q) IN CASE WHERE THE SOLUTION U(Q) SATISFIES THE SOMMERFELD CONDITION AT INFINITY; 6. A GEOMETRIC DERIVATION OF THE VECTOR POTENTIAL W(P, Q; 7. TWO FURTHER REPRESENTATIONS OF THE VECTOR POTENTIAL W(P, Q; 8. VECTOR POTENTIALS FOR BOUNDED SPACES; 9. THE TWO-DIMENSIONAL HELMHOLTZ EQUATION

10. PHYSICAL PROPERTIES OF THE VECTOR POTENTIAL W(P, Q) AND OF THE CORRESPONDING DIFFRACTION WAVE11. APPROXIMATE FORMULAE FOR THE VECTOR POTENTIAL W(P, Q); 12. REFLECTION CONES; 13. DIFFRACTION WAVE FOR THE SCALAR WAVE EQUATION; SECTION II. DIFFRACTION THEORY OF ELECTROMAGNETIC AND DIRAC-ELECTRON WAVES; 1. TENSOR POTENTIALS OF ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS DERIVED USING THE LORENTZ-LARMOR PRINCIPLE; 2. TENSOR POTENTIALS OF THE ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS DERIVED FROM KOTTLER'S FORMULATION OF THE HUYGENS PRINCIPLE; 3. DIFFRACTION WAVE IN THE KIRCHHOFF THEORY OF DIRAC-ELECTRON WAVES; CONCLUSION; REFERENCES

CHCHAPTER VI. ABERRATION THEORY OF GRATINGS AND GRATING MOUNTINGS1. INTRODUCTION; 2. ABERRATION TYPES; 3. FIRST ORDER PROPERTIES OF CONCAVE GRATINGS; 4. PROPERTIES OF CONCAVE GRATINGS DEPENDENT ON TERMS OF THE FOURTH DEGREE IN THE GRATING COORDINATES; 5. THE NEWER MOUNTINGS OF THE CONCAVE GRATING; 6. PLANE GRATING MOUNTINGS; 7. NON-SPHERICAL GRATINGS AND NON-LINEAR RULINGS; 8. ABERRATION TOLERANCES; REFERENCES; CHCHAPTER VII. DIFFRACTION AT A BLACK SCREEN PART I: KIRCHHOFF'S THEORY; 1. INTRODUCTION; 2. THE FIRST SALTUS PROBLEM; 3. THE SECOND SALTUS PROBLEM; 4. CONCLUDING REMARKS