In this volume, six review articles which cover a broad range of topics of current interest in modern optics are included. The first article by S. Saltiel, A.A.

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Progress in Optics Volume 45.

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Progress in Optics, Volume 65: A Tribute to Emil Wolf, provides the latest release in a series that presents an overview of the state-of-the-art in optics resea