Rémi Carminati is Professor of Physics at ESPCI Paris - PSL, before which he held a faculty position at Ecole Centrale Paris. He was awarded the Fabry-de-Gramont prize of the French Optical Society, and is a Fellow of the Optical Society of America.

Foreword; Preface; 1. Introduction; Part I. Wave Optics: 2. Electromagnetic waves; 3. Geometrical optics; 4. Waves at interfaces; 5. Green's functions and integral representations; 6. Plane-wave expansions; 7. Diffraction; 8. Coherence theory: basic concepts; 9. Coherence theory: propagation of correlations; Part II. Scattering of Waves: 10. Scattering theory; 11. Optical theorem; 12. Scattering in model systems; 13. Renormalized perturbation theory; 14. Wave reciprocity; Part III. Wave Transport: 15. Multiple scattering: average field; 16. Multiple scattering: field correlations and radiative transport; 17. Radiative transport: multiscale theory; 18. Discrete scatterers and spatial correlations; 19. Time-dependent radiative transport and energy velocity; Part IV. Radiative Transport and Diffusions: 20. Radiative transport: boundary conditions and integral representations; 21. Elementary solutions of the radiative transport equation; 22. Problems with planar and azimuthal symmetry; 23. Scattering theory for the radiative transport equation; 24. Diffusion approximation; 25. Diffuse light; 26. Diffuse optics; 27. Scattering of diffuse waves; Part V. Speckle and Interference Phenomena: 28. Intensity statistics; 29. Some properties of Rayleigh statistics; 30. Bulk speckle correlations; 31. Two-frequency speckle correlations; 32. Amplitude and intensity propagators for multiply-scattered fields; 33. Far-field angular speckle correlations; 34. Coherent backscattering; 35. Dynamic light scattering; Part VI. Electromagnetic Waves and Near-field Scattering: 36. Vector waves; 37. Electromagnetic Green's functions; 38. Electric dipole radiation; 39. Scattering of electromagnetic waves; 40. Electromagnetic reciprocity and the optical theorem; 41. Electromagnetic scattering by subwavelength particles; 42. Multiple scattering of electromagnetic waves: Average field; 43. Multiple scattering of electromagnetic waves: radiative transport; 44. Bulk electromagnetic speckle correlations; 45. Near-field speckle correlations; 46. Speckle correlations produced by a point source; Exercises; Index.