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Index
Cover page
Halftitle page
Series page
Title page
Copyright page
Dedication page
Contents
Preface and acknowledgements
List of illustrations
Chapter 1 What is light?
Seeing is believing
Light enables communication
Optics
What is light?
Chapter 2 Light rays
Reflection
Imaging using reflections
Refraction
Imaging using lenses
Optical instruments
Limits to imaging
Metamaterials and super lenses
Chapter 3 Waves
Unexplained phenomena?
Wavelength and wave frequency
Interference
Holography
Limits to imaging, redux
Super-resolution imaging
Diffraction
Guided waves
Polarization
Chapter 4 Duality
Looking at trajectories again
Connecting waves and rays
Hamilton’s ‘optical analogy’
Unsolved puzzles
Waving altogether
Nothing is something
Chapter 5 Light matters
Oscillating atoms and bending electrons
Quantum light emission processes
Coherence: acting all together
Laser light
X-rays
Ultrashort light pulses
Chapter 6 Light, space, and time
Space-time
Clocks
Clock synchronization
Ultrashort light pulses
Frequency combs
Optical telecommunications
Chapter 7 Lighting the frontiers
Light mechanics
Ultra-cold
Ultrafast
Ultra-intense
Chapter 8 Quantum light
Single photons
Squeezed light
Quantum entanglement
A quantum game
Local properties of things
Chapter 9 Twilight
Further reading
Index
Social Media
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