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| Editor | Emil Wolf |
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| Subject | Optics |
| Publisher | North Holland |
Progress in Optics are a series of books edited by Emil Wolf published by Elsevier. They consist of collections of already published review articles deemed to be representative of the advances made in the fields of optics.
The series was established in 1962.
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