Laser physics

This textbook offers a clear and comprehensive introduction to electrodynamics, one of the core components of undergraduate physics courses.

The present book is based on the experience of the author.

This book provides an introduction to and an overview of the multifaceted area of dynamics and nonlinearities related to optical excitations in semiconductors.

The science and technology related to semiconductors have received significant attention for applications in various fields including microelectronics, nanophotonics, and biotechnologies.

One intriguing aspect of physics is its dynamic and rapidly evolving nature; exciting new fields can become moribund within relatively few years, only to revive and grow again in a dramatic and expolisve manner in response to new developments.

The aim of publishing this book is the further development of the concept of dissipative solitons, which has been in the air for at least the last decade and a half.

This book offers a complete overview of photonic-enhanced materials from material development to a final photonic biomedical application.

This book comprises selected contributions to the Computer Society of India's annual convention.

Invisibility has fascinated people since time immemorial, but only a decade ago did invisibility become a serious subject of scientific investigation.

This book covers the fundamental aspects of fiber lasers and fiber amplifiers, and includes a wide range of material from laser physics fundamentals to state-of-the-art topics, as well as industrial applications in the rapidly growing field of quantum electronics.

A gyrotron traveling-wave amplifier (gyro-TWT) with the high-power and broad-band capabilities is considered as a turn-on key for next generation high-resolution radar.

This handbook provides comprehensive treatment of the current state of glass science from the leading experts in the field.

High power lasers and their applications in production technology have experienced a vivid development during the last decades and now offer improved performance of classical applications in cutting or welding.

The XIX International Conference on Laser Spectroscopy, one of the leading conferences in the very diverse and still growing field of laser spectroscopy, was held in Hokkaido, Japan, on June 7-12, 2009.

The present book provides recent developments in various in vivo imaging and sensing techniques such as photo acoustics (PA) imaging and microscopy, ultrasound-PA combined modalities, optical coherence tomography (OCT) and micro OCT, Raman and surface enhanced Raman scattering (SERS), Fluorescence lifetime imaging (FLI) techniques and nanoparticle enabled endoscopy etc.

Phototherapy exemplifies scientific medicine.

The book explains the classification of a set of Walsh functions into distinct self-similar groups and subgroups, where the members of each subgroup possess distinct self-similar structures.

This book describes recent innovations in 3D media and technologies, with coverage of 3D media capturing, processing, encoding, and adaptation, networking aspects for 3D Media, and quality of user experience (QoE).

Since the previous Symposium, several exciting new developments and advances have occurred in the field of frequency standards and metrology.

Methods and Materials for Remote Sensing: Infrared Photo-Detectors, Radiometers and Arrays presents the basic principles and the guidelines for the design of IR and microwave radiometers intended for the detection of weak electromagnetic signals in a noisy background.

Dieser Buchtitel ist Teil des Digitalisierungsprojekts Springer Book Archives mit Publikationen, die seit den Anfängen des Verlags von 1842 erschienen sind.

The work described here investigates the advantages and limitations of using laser light for the deep in-vivo illumination and micromanipulation of the neuronal system in zebrafish.

This textbook presents problems with detailed solutions showing how to apply quantum theory to modern physics.

This is a textbook for upper undergraduate and graduate courses on microwave engineering, written in a student-friendly manner with many diagrams and illustrations.

This book is an introduction to techniques and applications of optical methods for materials Characterization in civil and environmental engineering.

The content of this book is the result of the work and the experiences of an interdisciplinary and strictly European group of researchers who have attempted to give birth to a new fibre communication network concept by exploiting the potential benefits of optical coherent transmission.

Reviews in Plasmonics 2010, the first volume of the new book serial from Springer, serves as a comprehensive collection of current trends and emerging hot topics in the field of Plasmonics and closely related disciplines.

Over the past decade or more, the art relating to modern optical waveguides has evolved as a nighly focused interdis- ciplinary field, so attractive, stimulating and full of far- reachin3 promise that no parallel could be found earlier in other branches of applied sciences except, perhaps, in solid- state electronics and computer technology.

Dieser Buchtitel ist Teil des Digitalisierungsprojekts Springer Book Archives mit Publikationen, die seit den Anfängen des Verlags von 1842 erschienen sind.

This thesis focuses on a means of obtaining, for the first time, full electromagnetic imaging of photonic nanostructures.

This book is part of a large and growing body of work on the observation of analogue gravity effects, such as Hawking radiation, in laboratory systems.

This text, now in its second edition, presents the mathematical background needed to design many optical combinations that are used in astronomical telescopes and cameras.

This book is based on the contributions to a course, entitled Applied Magnetism, which was the 25th Course of the International School of Materials Science and Technology.

The Perception of Illusory Contours is a complete and comprehensive volume on one of the most important phenomena in modern perception research.

This book is written for scientists and engineers whose work involves wave reflec- tion or transmission.

The raw numbers of high-energy-density physics are amazing: shock waves at hundreds of km/s (approaching a million km per hour), temperatures of millions of degrees, and pressures that exceed 100 million atmospheres.

Now that holography has matured (wIth Dennis Gabor having received the Nobel Prize In 1971) and that coherent optics has proved to be even more powerful than originally imagined, in open- ing the new field of "e;optical computing,"e; it is particularlyappropri- ate to make available to English-speaking readers the translation of a uniquely outstanding text which presents the general and per- manent foundations of the field.

Advanced spectroscopic techniques allow the probing of very small systems and very fast phenomena, conditions that can be considered "e;extreme"e; at the present status of our experimentation and knowledge.

This book presents a survey of modern theoretical and experimental techniques in studies of light scattering phenomena and radiative transfer processes in random media.

This graduate-level textbook presents the principles, design methods, simulation, and materials of photonic circuits.

This book reviews the application of  semiconductor nanocrystals also known as colloidal quantum dots (QDs) to LED lighting for indoors and outdoors as well as LED backlighting in displays, summarizing the color science of QDs for lighting and displays and presenting recent developments in QD-integrated LEDs and display research.

Throughout much of machine vision's early years the infrared imagery has suffered from return on investment despite its advantages over visual counterparts.