Progress in Optics, Vol. 32 0 Edition

Hardbound. Volume XXXII contains a number of review articles on recent developments in optics and related subjects.

The first article presents an account of guided wave optics on silicon which is a subject of considerable current interest in the broad field of integrated optics, likely to influence the design and fabrication of various optical components for future use in this field of technology. Chapter two provides an overview of the optical implementation of neural networks and discusses their design, models and architecture.

The following article deals with applications of the path integral technique to the theory of wave propagation in random media, a technique used with considerable success in the last two decades for solutions of problems encountered in classical statistical wave theory. Methods for obtaining information on the relative location of objects in space are considered in the following chapter and includes an analysis of the potenti