Optics in Our Time

Part I. History

1. A Very Brief History of Light
M. Suhail Zubairy

2. Ibn al-Haytham’s Scientific Research Programme
Roshdi Rashed

Part II. Ultrafast Phenomena and the Invisible World

3. Ultrafast Light and Electrons: Imaging the Invisible
Ahmed H. Zewail

Part III. Optical Sources

4. The Laser
Bahaa Saleh

5. Solid-State Lighting Based on Light Emitting Diode Technology
Dandan Zhu, Colin J. Humphreys

6. Modern Electron Optics and the Search for More Light: The Legacy of the Muslim Golden Age
Mohamed M. El-Gomati

Part IV. Applications

7. The Dawn of Quantum Biophotonics
Dmitri V. Voronine, Narangerel Altangerel, Edward S. Fry, Olga Kocharovskaya, Alexei V. Sokolov, Vladislav V. Yakovlev, Aleksey Zheltikov, Marlan O. Scully

8. Optical Communication: Its History and Recent Progress
Govind P. Agrawal

9. Optics in Remote Sensing
Thomas Walther, Edward S. Fry

10. Optics in Nanotechnology
Munir H. Nayfeh

11. Optics and Renaissance Art
Charles M. Falco

12. The Eye as an Optical Instrument
Pablo Artal

13. Optics in Medicine
Alexis Méndez

Part V. Quantum Optics

14. Atom Optics in a Nutshell
Pierre Meystre

15. Slow, Stored and Stationary Light
Michael Fleischhauer, Gediminas Juzeliūnas

16. Optical Tests of Foundations of Quantum Theory
Yanhua H. Shih

17. Quantum Mechanical Properties of Light Fields Carrying Orbital Angular Momentum
Robert W. Boyd, Miles J. Padgett

18. Quantum Communication with Photons
Mario Krenn, Mehul Malik, Thomas Scheidl, Rupert Ursin, Anton Zeilinger

19. Wave-Particle Dualism in Action
Wolfgang P. Schleich

Keywords: Physics, Optics, Lasers, Photonics, Optical Devices, Quantum Optics, Popular Science in Physics, History and Philosophical Foundations of Physics