Laser physics

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

Optical Properties of Metal Clusters deals with the electronic structure of metal clusters determined optically.

This book systematically introduces readers to laser imaging target detection principles and techniques.

Lasers and Synergetics, written to honour Hermann Haken on his 60th birthday, is concerned with the two main areas of research to which Prof.

The field of ultrafast spectroscopy of semiconductors and their nanostruc- tures continues to be an active field of research.

This book focuses on several areas of intense topical interest related to applied spectroscopy and the science of nanomaterials.

A variety of nanomaterials have excellent optoelectronic and electronic properties for novel device applications.

The common belief is that light is completely reflected by metals.

This book highlights recent advances in thin-film photonics, particularly as building blocks of metamaterials and metasurfaces.

How to produce images with sound has intrigued engineers and scientists for many years.

This book presents photoelectron spectroscopy as a valuable method for studying the electronic structures of various solid materials in the bulk state, on surfaces, and at buried interfaces.

The fast growing traffic demand in telecommunication networks, by use of the Internet and an increasing number of broadband services for multimedia com- munications, requires new high performance networking technologies.

Nitrogen dioxide (N0 ) is notorious for its complex visible spectrum and has 2 frustrated many chemists and physicists.

This book covers important aspects of modern optical communication.

The book covers the theories and physics of advanced new optical measuring methods and problems of experimental performance, recent achievements in the basic interferometric methods holography, speckle-interferometry, shearography as well as linear/non-linear photoelasticity and photoviscoelasticity, Moire- and grid-techniques.

One half decade after the first edition the book is now published in a completely new revision, updated and in doubled in size.

During the last few years cavity-optomechanics has emerged as a new field of research.

This book focuses on the design and development of SU-8 polymer and silicon waveguide-based devices using the effective index based matrix method.

This book presents wet chemical sol-gel and hydrothermal methods for 1D oxide nanostructure preparation.

The Handbook of Advanced Lighting Technology is a major reference work on the subject of light source science and technology, with particular focus on solid-state light sources - LEDs and OLEDs - and the development of 'smart' or 'intelligent' lighting systems; and the integration of advanced light sources, sensors, and adaptive control architectures to provide tailored illumination which is 'fit to purpose.

Central to this thesis is the characterisation and exploitation of electromagnetic properties of light in imaging and measurement systems.

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This book deals with the Laser-Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy (LIBS) a widely used atomic emission spectroscopy technique for elemental analysis of materials.

X-ray experiments have been used widely in materials science, and conventional spectroscopy has been based on linear responses in light-matter interactions.

This book reviews the spaceborne and airborne remote sensing of clouds including cloud lidar and radar data analysis, snow and soil reflectance spectroscopy, and single light scattering by nonspherical scatterers.

This thesis reports on sparsity-based multipath exploitation methods for through-the-wall radar imaging.

This book presents photoelectron spectroscopy as a valuable method for studying the electronic structures of various solid materials in the bulk state, on surfaces, and at buried interfaces.

This text is intended to provide an in-depth, self-contained, treatment of optical waveguide theory.

This book provides a comprehensiveoverview of the theory and practical development of metamaterial-based perfectabsorbers (MMPAs).

It was almost four hundred years ago that Galileo wrote in Il Saggiatore that the "e;Book of Nature is written in mathema ti ca 1 characters"e;.

This collection of the selected papers presented to the Second International Conference on Photonics, Optics and laser technology PHOTOPTICS 2014 covers the three main conference scientific areas of "e;Optics"e;, "e;Photonics"e; and "e;Lasers"e;.

The Seventh Rochester Conference on Coherence and Quantum Optics was held on the campus of the University of Rochester during the four-day period June 7 - 10, 1996.

This book concentrates on the design and development of integrated optic waveguide sensors using silicon based materials.

This book systematically introduces the single frequency semiconductor laser, which is widely used in many vital advanced technologies, such as the laser cooling of atoms and atomic clock, high-precision measurements and spectroscopy, coherent optical communications, and advanced optical sensors.

The 3rd edition of this textbook offers clear explanations of optical spectroscopic phenomena and shows how spectroscopic techniques are used in modern chemistry, biochemistry and biophysics.

This book gathers selected and expanded contributions presented at the 5th Symposium on Space Optical Instruments and Applications, which was held in Beijing, China, on September 5-7, 2018.

This book presents the fundamental physics of optical interferometry as applied to biophysical, biological and medical research.

Die Grundlagen der Laserphysik werden im Rahmen elementarer theoretischer Modelle aus der klassischen Elektrodynamik und der Quantenmechanik dargestellt.

Optical Solitons represent one of the most exciting and fascinating concepts in modern communications, arousing special interest due to their potential applications in optical fibre communication.

The book covers recent advances and progress in understanding both the fundamental science of lasers interactions in materials science, as well as a special emphasis on emerging applications enabled by the irradiation of materials by pulsed laser systems.

Optical networks have been in commercial deployment since the early 1980s as a result of advances in optical, photonic, and material technologies.

This book provides an introduction to design of biomedical optical imaging technologies and their applications.

This book reflects the latest advances in nonlinear optics.

A Course in Lens Design is an instruction in the design of image-forming optical systems.