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Selected Papers on Natural Optical Activity (SPIE Press Book)

Editor(s): Akhlesh Lakhtakia
Date: 1 June 1990

ISBN: 9780819404367

Vol: MS15
624 pages
Softcover

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Non-member: $98.00

Section One
Chirality and Optical Activity
3 / Mathematics and beauty: a sampling of spirals and "strange" spirals in science, nature and art, C. A. Pickover (Leonardo 1988)
12 / Formulation and solution of the classical seashell problem. I. Seashell geometry, C. Illert (Il Nuovo Cimento 1987)
24 / Formulation and solution of the classical seashell problem. II. Tubular three-dimensional seashell surfaces, C. Illert (Il Nuovo Cimento 1989)
34 / Optical activity: Biot's bequest, J. Applequist (American Scientist 1987)
45 / Researches on the molecular asymmetry of natural organic products, L. Pasteur (Alembic Club Reprints 1905)
66 / Absorption ingale des rayons circulaires droit et gauche dans certains corps actifs, A. Cotton (Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires des Seances de l'Academie des Sciences 1895)
68 / Rotatory polarisation, T. M. Lowry (Optical Rotatory Power 1964)
80 / The molecular response to light, E. Charney (The Molecular Basis of Optical Activity 1979)
Section Two
Molecular Chirality
103 / Molecular structure and chirality, D. J. Brand, J. Fisher (Journal of Chemical Education 1987)
107 / Molecular vibrations and structure of high polymers. II. Helical parameters of infinite polymer chains as functions of bond lengths, bond angles, and internal rotation angles, T. Miyazawa (Journal of Polymer Science 1961)
115 / The structure of synthetic polypeptides. I. The transform of atoms on a helix, W. Cochran, F. H. C. Crick, V. Vand (Acta Crystallographica 1952)
121 / Differential scatter of left and right circularly polarized light by optically active particulate systems, D. W. Urry, J, Krivacic (Proceedings of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences 1970)
Section Three
Scattering by Helices
129 / Circular intensity differential scattering of light by helical structures. III. A general polarizability tensor and anomalous scattering, C. Bustamante, I. Tinoco, Jr., M. F. Maestre (Journal of Chemical Physics 1981)
141 / Model calculations of intramolecular interference effects in Rayleigh scattering from solutions of macromolecules, W. M. McClain, J. A. Schauerte, R. A. Harris (Journal of Chemical Physics 1984)
152 / Differential scattering of circularly polarized light by chromatin modeled as a helical array of dielectric ellipsoids within the Born approximation, A. S. Belmont, S. Zeitz, C. Nicolini (Biopolymers 1985)
171 / Circular intensity differential scattering of light by hierarchical molecular structures, C. W. Patterson, S. B. Singham, G. C. Salzman, C. Bustamante (Journal of Chemical Physics 1986)
177 / Scattering of linearly polarized microwave radiation from a dielectric helix, R. D. Haracz, L. D. Cohen, A. Cohen, R. T. Wang (Applied Optics 1987)
184 / Equivalent dipole moments of helical arrangements of small, isotropic, point-polarized scatters: application to chiral polymer design, V. V. Varadan, A. Lakhtakia, V. K. Varadan (Journal of Applied Physics 1988)
189 / Polarization of light scattered by isotropic opalescent media, F. Perrin (Journal of Chemical Physics 1942)
202 / Uber eine durch ein isotropes system von spiralformigen resonatoren erzeugte rotationspolarisation der elektromagnetischen wellen, K. F. Lindman (Annalen der Physik 1920)
214 / Uber die durch ein aktives raumgitter erzeugte rotationspolarisation der elektromagnetischen wellen, K. F. Lindman (Annalen der Physik 1922)
222 / The optical activity of oriented copper helices. I. Experimental, I. Tinoco, Jr., M. P. Freeman (Journal of Physical Chemistry 1957)
Section Four
Phenomenology
229 / Uber die naturliche optische aktivitat von flussigkeiten und gasen, M. Born (Physikalische Zeitschrift 1915)
237 / Uber die wechselwirkung zwischen zwei elektrischen dipole und uber die drehung der polarisationsebene in kristallen und fluissigkeiten, C. W. Oseen (Annalen der Physik 1915)
265 / The optical activity of liquids and gases, F. Gray (Physical Review 1916)
274 / On the theory of optical activity, M. Born (Proceedings of the Royal Society of London A 1935)
285 / Quantitative verhaltnisse und beziehungen bei der naturlichen optischen akyivitat, W. Kuhn (Zeitschrift fur Physikalische Chemie B 1929)
296 / Quantenmechanische theorie der naturlichen optischen aktivitat von flussigkeiten und gasen, L. Rosenfeld (Zeitschrift fur Physik 1929)
303 / Theoretical aspects of optical activity: small molecules, A. Moscowitz (Advances in Chemical Physics 1962)
326 / Theoretical aspects of optical activity: polymers, I. Tinoco, Jr. (Advances in Chemical Physics 1962)
349 / On the critical behavior of the optical activity of a fluid, S. K. Kim, D. J. Lee (Journal of Chemical Physics 1981)
356 / On the theory of multiple scattering for a nonpolar fluid composed of chiral molecules, D. J. Lee, S. K. Kim (Journal of Chemical Physics 1987)
362 / Quantum statistical-mechanical theory of optical activity, H. Nakano, H. Kimura (Journal of the Physical Society of Japan 1969)
Section Five
Constitutive Equations
381 / On the theory of optical activity in crystals. I. The law of conservation of energy and the optical activity tensors, F. I. Fedorov (Optics and Spectroscopy 1959)
386 / On the theory of optical activity in crystals. II. Crystals of cubic symmetry and planar classes of central symmetry, F. I. Fedorov (Optics and Spectroscopy 1959)
390 / On the theory of optical activity in crystals. III. General equation of normals, B. V. Bokut', F. I. Fedorov (Optics and Spectroscopy 1959)
393 / Theories of optical rotatory power, E. U. Condon (Reviews of Modem Physics 1937)
419 / The gyrator, a new electric network element, B. D. H. Tellegen (Phillips Research Reports 1948)
430 / Natural invariance of the Maxwell equations; reciprocity and nonreciprocity [excerpts], E. J. Post (in Formal Structure of Electromagnetics 1962)
448 / Reflection and refraction at the surface of a chiral medium: comparison of gyrotropic constitutive relations invariant or noninvariant under a duality transformation, M. P. Silverman (Journal of the Optical Society of America A 1986)
456 / Comparison of two theories of optical activity, R. M. Peterson (American Journal of Physics 1975)
460 / On the phenomenonological theory of natural optical activity, B. V. Bokut', A. N. Serdyukov (Soviet Physics JETP 1972)
463 / Phenomenonological electrodynamics of gyrotropic media, V. M. Agranovich, V. L. Ginzburg (Soviet Physics JETP 1973)
Section Six
Modern Electromagnetic Theory
469 / Theorems of bianisotropic media, J. A. Kong (Proceedings of the IEEE 1972)
480 / Radiation and scattering in homogeneous general biisotropic regions, J. C. Monzon (IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation 1990)
489 / A simple and straightforward derivation of the dyadic Green's function of an isotropic chiral medium, W. S. Weiglhofer (Archiv fur Elektronik und Ubertragungstechnik 1989)
491 / Field equations, Huygens's principle, integral equations, and theorems for radiation and scattering of electromagnetic waves in isotropic chiral media, A. Lakhtakia, V. V. Varadan, V. K. Varadan (Journal of the Optical Society of America A 1988)
501 / Numerical evaluation of Kramers-Kronig relations, C. A. Emeis, L. J. Oosterhoff, G. de Vries (Proceedings of the Royal Society of London A 1967)
511 / Electromagnetic theorems for complex anisotropic media, C. M. Krowne (IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation 1984)
Section Seven
Wave Propagation
521 / Propaption in a gyrational medium, LL. G. Chambers (Quarterly Journal of Mechanics and Applied Mathematics 1956)
527 / Wave propaption in optically active and magnetoelectric media of arbitrary geometry, D. N. Pattanayak, J. L. Birman (Physical Review B 1981)
535 / Effects of circular birefringence on light propaption and reflection, M. P. Silverman, R. B. Sohn (American Journal of Physics 1986)
543 / Transmission of light through birefringent and optically active media: the Poincare' sphere, H. G. Jerrard (Journal of the Optical Society of America 1954)
550 / Guided electromagnetic waves in chiral media, C. Eftimiu, L. W. Pearson (Radio Science 1989)
Section Eight
Scattering by Chiral Objects
561 / Scattering by periodic achiral-chiral interfaces, A. Lakhtakia, V. V. Varadan, V. K. Varadan (Journal of the Optical Society of America A 1989)
569 / Scattering of electromagnetic waves by an optically active cylinder, C. F. Bohren (Journal of Colloid and Interface Science 1978)
574 / Light scattering by an optically active sphere, C. F. Bohren (Chemical Physics Letters 1974)
578 / Scattering and absorption characteristics of lossy dielectric, chiral, nonspherical objects, A. Lakhtakia, V. K. Varadan, V. V. Varadan (Applied Optics 1985)
587 / Intrinsic optical activity in light scattering from an arbitrary particle, S. B. Singham (Chemical Physics Letters 1986)
593 / Influence of impedance mismatch between a chiral scatterer and the surrounding chiral medium, A. Lakhtakia, V. K. Varadan, V. V. Varadan (Journal of Modern Optics 1989)
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