Which Czech born American physicist was the author of several works on optics and edited the a series of books called, Progress in Optics?
Progress in Optics 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.
Journal of Modern Optics The Journal of Modern Optics is a peer-reviewed scientific journal that was established as "Optica Acta" in 1954. It obtained its current name in 1987 and is published by Taylor & Francis with 21 issues per year. The journal covers most branches of classical and quantum optics including lasers, diffraction, holographs, nonlinear optics, and photon statistics. The editor-in-chief is Thomas Brown (University of Rochester). According to the "Journal Citation Reports", the journal has a 2015 impact factor of 1.267.