Dedication Preface 1: Hamiltonian Picture of Light Optics. First-Order Ray Optics 1.1 Introduction 1.2 Hamiltonian picture of light-ray propagation 1.3 Hamiltonian picture of light-ray propagation: formal settings 1.4 Hamilton''s equations for the light-ray 1.5 Lie transformations in the optical phase space 1.6 Linear ray optics and quadratic Hamiltonian functions 1.
7 Planar model of first-order optical systems 1.8 ABCD matrix and focal, principal and nodal planes 1.9 Summary Problems 2: 1D First-Order Optical Systems: The Ray-Transfer Matrix 2.1 Introduction 2.2 Ray-ensemble description of light propagation 2.3 Quadratic monomials and symplectic matrices 2.4 Quadratic monomials and first-order optical systems 2.5 Quadratic monomials in phase space 2.
6 Summary Problems 3: The Group of 1D First-Order Optical Systems 3.1 Introduction 3.2 Ray matrix of composite optical systems 3.3 The subgroup of free propagation and thin lens matrices 3.4 Optical matrices factorized in terms of free propagation sections and thin lenses 3.5 Wei-Norman representation of optical elements: LST synthesis 3.6 Rotations and squeezes in the phase plane 3.7 Iwasawa representation of optical elements: LSFα synthesis 3.
8 Canonical and noncanonical representations of symplectic matrices 3.9 Integrating the equation for the ray transfer matrix 3.10 Summary Problems 4: Wave-Optical Picture of First-Order Optical Systems 4.1 Introduction 4.2 Essentials of the scalar wave model of light. The paraxial wave equation in a quadratic medium 4.3 Ray and wave optics 4.4 From the ray-optical matrix to the wave-optical operator 4.
5 Eigenfunctions of Q^ and P^: point-like and spatial harmonic waveforms 4.6 Spatial Fourier representation of optical wave fields 4.7 Summary Problems 5: 1D First-Order Optical Systems: The Huygens-Fresnel Integral 5.1 Introduction 5.2 Quadratic Hamiltonians and metaplectic Lie algebra 5.3 Wave-optical transfer relations for an ABCD system 5.4 The optical Fourier transform 5.5 Recovering the ray-optical description 5.
6 Wave-optical propagators as unitary representations of linear canonical transformations 5.7 Summary Problems 6: The Wigner Distribution Function: Analytical Evaluation 6.1 Introduction 6.2 The optical Wigner distribution function: basic concepts 6.3 The Wigner distribution function: basic properties 6.4 The Wigner distribution function of light signals: further examples 6.5 Summary Problems 7: The Wigner Distribution Function: Optical Production 7.1 Introduction 7.
2 The sliding-window Fourier transform 7.3 The Wigner distribution function and the general class of space-frequency signal representations 7.4 The ambiguity function 7.5 Understanding the Wigner and ambiguity functions from the viewpoint of the mutual intensity function 7.6 Optical production of the Wigner distribution function: general considerations 7.7 Wigner processor for 1 D real signals: basic configurations 7.8 Wigner processor for 1 D complex signals: basic configurations 7.9 The smoothed Wigner distribution function and the cross-ambiguity function: optical production 7.
10 Summary Problems 8: 1D First-Order Optical Systems: Transfer Laws for the Wigner Distribution Function 8.1 Introduction 8.2 From the wave function to the phase space representation 8.3 First-order optical systems: propagation law for the Wigner distribution function 8.4 The Wigner distribution function and the optical Fourier transform: linking Fourier optics to Wigner optics 8.5 Transport equation for the Wigner distribution function 8.6 Summary Problems 9: 1D First-Order Optical Systems: Moments of the Wigner Distribution Function 9.1 Introduction 9.
2 Basic notions on moments 9.3 Preliminaries to the calculation of the moments of the Wigner distribution function 9.4 Wigner distribution function: local and global moments 9.5 Gaussian Wigner distribution functions: the variance matrix and its evolution 9.6 Propagation laws for the moments of the Wigner distribution function in first-order optical systems 9.7 Higher-order moments of the Wigner distribution function 9.8 Summary Problems A: Lie Algebras and Lie Groups: Basic Notions Index.