CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- SECTION 1 Diffraction -- 1.1 Phase Distribution Near Focus in an Aberration-free Diffraction Image -- 1.2 Electromagnetic Diffraction in Optical Systems - II. Structure of the Image Field in an Aplanatic System -- 1.3 Electromagnetic Field in the Neighborhood of the Focus of a Coherent Beam -- 1.4 Energy Flow in the Neighborhood of the Focus of a Coherent Beam -- 1.5 Generalization of the Maggi-Rubinowicz Theory of the Boundary Diffraction Wave Part I -- 1.6 Generalization of the Maggi-Rubinowicz Theory of the Boundary Diffraction Wave Part II -- 1.7 Consistent Formulation of Kirchhoff's Diffraction Theory -- 1.8 Conditions for the Validity of the Debye Integral Representation of Focused Fields -- 1.9 Three-dimensional Intensity Distribution Near the Focus in Systems of Different Fresnel Numbers -- 1.10 Interference of Converging Spherical Waves with Application to the Design of Compact Disks -- SECTION 2 Radiation Theory and String Excitations -- 2.1 Theory of Cerenkovian Effects -- 2.2 New Model for the Interaction Between a Moving Charged Particle and a Dielectric, and the Cherenkov Effect -- 2.3 Multipole Expansions and Plane Wave Representations of the Electromagnetic Field -- 2.4 Radiating and Nonradiating Classical Current Distributions and the Fields They Generate -- 2.5 Non-radiating Monochromatic Sources and Their Fields -- 2.6 A New Method for Specifying Nonradiating, Monochromatic, Scalar Sources and their Fields -- 2.7 Nonpropagating String Excitations -- SECTION 3 Coherence and Statistical Optics -- 3.1 A Macroscopic Theory of Interference and Diffraction of Light from Finite Sources - I. Fields with a Narrow Spectral Range.

3.2 A Macroscopic Theory of Interference and Diffraction of Light from Finite Sources - II. Fields with a Spectral Range of Arbitrary Width -- 3.3 Optics in Terms of Observable Quantities -- 3.4 The Coherence Properties of Optical Fields -- 3.5 Coherence Properties of Partially Polarized Electromagnetic Radiation -- 3.6 Theory of Photoelectric Detection of Light Fluctuations -- 3.7 Quantum Dynamics in Phase Space -- 3.8 Ordering of Operators and Phase Space Descriptions in Quantum Optics -- 3.9 Angular Distribution of Radiant Intensity from Sources of Different Degrees of Spatial Coherence -- 3.10 Coherence Properties of Lambertian and Non-Lambertian Sources -- 3.11 Spectral Coherence and the Concept of Cross-spectral Purity -- 3.12 Partially Coherent Sources Which Produce the Same Far-field Intensity Distribution as a Laser -- 3.13 New Theory of Partial Coherence in the Space-frequency Domain: Part I: Spectra and Cross-spectra of Steady-state Sources -- 3.14 New Theory of Partial Coherence in the Space-frequency Domain. Part II: Steady-state Fields and Higher-order Correlations -- 3.15 Young's Interference Fringes with Narrow-band Light -- 3.16 Coherence Theory of Laser Resonator Modes -- 3.17 Invariance of the Spectrum of Light on Propagation -- 3.18 Non-cosmological Redshifts of Spectral Lines -- 3.19 Redshifts and Blueshifts of Spectral Lines Caused by Source Correlations -- 3.20 Spectral Changes Produced in Young's Interference Experiment -- 3.21 Determination of Field Correlations from Spectral Measurements with Application to Synthetic Aperture Imaging -- 3.22 Some New Aspects of Young's Interference Experiment -- 3.23 Determination of the Degree of Coherence of Light from Spectroscopic Measurements -- 3.24 Correlation-induced Spectral Changes and Energy Conservation.

3.25 Energy Conservation Law for Randomly Fluctuating Electromagnetic Fields -- 3.26 Storage and Retrieval of Correlation Functions of Partially Coherent Fields -- SECTION 4 Scattering -- 4.1 Three-dimensional Structure Determination of Semi-transparent Objects from Holographic Data -- 4.2 Determination of the Amplitude and the Phase of Scattered Fields by Holography -- 4.3 A Generalized Extinction Theorem and its Role in Scattering Theory -- 4.4 Scattering States and Bound States as Solutions of the Schrödinger Equation with Nonlocal Boundary Conditions -- 4.5 Resonance States as Solutions of the Schrodinger Equation with a Nonlocal Boundary Condition -- 4.6 Scattering Theory of Distortion-correction by Phase Conjugation -- 4.7 Analyticity of the Angular Spectrum Amplitude of Scattered Fields and Some of Its Consequences -- 4.8 Frequency Shifts of Spectral Lines Produced by Scattering from Spatially Random Media -- 4.9 Spectral Changes Produced by Static Scattering on a System of Particles -- 4.10 Scattering of Electromagnetic Fields of Any State of Coherence from Space-time Fluctuations -- 4.11 Frequency Shifts of Spectral Lines Generated by Scattering from Space-time Fluctuations -- 4.12 Correlation-induced Doppler-like Frequency Shifts of Spectral Lines -- 4.13 Shifts of Spectral Lines Caused by Scattering from Fluctuating Random Media -- 4.14 A Class of Scattering Media Which Generate Doppler-like Frequency Shifts of Spectral Lines -- 4.15 The Redshift Controversy and a New Mechanism for Generating Frequency Shifts of Spectral Lines -- 4.16 Remarks on Boundary Conditions for Scalar Scattering -- 4.17 Diffraction Tomography Using Power Extinction Measurements -- SECTION 5 Foundations of Radiometry -- 5.1 Radiometry with Sources of Any State of Coherence.

5.2 Coherence and Radiometry with Quasihomogeneous Planar Sources -- 5.3 Radiance Functions of Partially Coherent Fields -- 5.4 Coherence and Radiometry -- 5.5 Radiometric Model for Propagation of Coherence -- 5.6 Statistical Wave-theoretical Derivation of the Free-space Transport Equation of Radiometry -- SECTION 6 Articles of Historical Interest -- 6.1 Einstein's Researches on the Nature of Light -- 6.2 Recollections of Max Born -- 6.3 The Life and Work of Christiaan Huygens -- SECTION 7 Lectures -- 7.1 Analyticity, Causality and Dispersion Relations -- 7.2 Scientists Who Created the World of Optics -- 7.3 The Development of Optical Coherence Theory -- 7.4 Recollections -- 7.5 Commencement Remarks -- SECTION 8 Publications by Emil Wolf.