Laser physics

Caustics are natural phenomena, forming light patterns in rainbows or through drinking glasses, and creating light networks at the bottom of swimming pools.

Photovoltaik wendet sich an Studenten aus Physik, Chemie, Elektrotechnik, Umwelttechnik u.

Photons are an attractive option for testing fundamental quantum physics and developing new quantum-enhanced technology, including highly advanced computers and simulators, as well as precision sensing beyond shot-noise.

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Applied Photometry, Radiometry, and Measurements of Optical Losses reviews and analyzes physical concepts of radiation transfer, providing quantitative foundation for the means of measurements of optical losses, which affect propagation and distribution of light waves in various media and in diverse optical systems and components.

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

This book integrates the economics of aging and insight based on political economy and explores generational conflict in the context of governmental spending.

The alkali halide crystals have always been at the centre stage of solid-state physics.

Many optical design technical books are available for many years which mainly deal with image optics design based on geometric optics and using sequential raytracing technique.

This book introduces model studies associated with laser surface processing such as conduction limited heating, surface re-melting, Marangoni flow and its effects on the temperature field, re-melting of multi-layered surfaces, laser shock processing, and practical applications.

Contrary to monographs on non-linear optics this book concentrates on problems of self-organization in various important contexts.

This book provides a comprehensive overview of the photonic sensing field by covering plasmonics, photonic crystal, and SOI techniques from theory to real sensing applications.

This monograph is devoted to urgent questions of the theory and applications of the Monte Carlo method for solving problems of atmospheric optics and hydrooptics.

This volume is composed of papers (invited and contributed) presented at the International Conference on Coherence and Quantum Optics held at the University of Hyderabad January 5-January 10, 1991.

The current work consists of nine contributions describing recent progress in the interdisciplinary of Nanoscience, which involves physics, chemistry, engineering, biology and medicine and one essay outlining some important historical and socioeconomic factors pertaining to recent developments in nanoscale science and technology.

This book provides a comprehensive description of various slab waveguide structures ranged from graded-index waveguide to symmetrical metal-cladding waveguide.

Minimally invasive techniques such as Photodynamic Therapy (PDT) and Photochemical Internalisation (PCI) have for years been under investigation for the treatment of solid cancers.

This book covers a broad range of interdisciplinary topics, focusing on atoms and molecules in intense laser fields, excitation processes in intense laser fields, photonics and materials, high-order harmonics generation, XFEL, high-power lasers and their applications, and quantum computing.

Images contain information about the spatial properties of the scene they depict.

Light is all around us.

Bidirectional transmission over optical fibre networks may yield a large cost reduction because of the reduction of the network infrastructure by a factor two and the potential cost reduction by an integrated transceiver design.

Lasers, having proven useful in such diverse areas as high- resolution spectroscopy and the guiding of ferryboats, are cur- rently enjoying great popularity among materials scientists and engineers.

This edition contains carefully selected contributions by leading scientists in high-resolution laser spectroscopy, quantum optics and laser physics.

This book offers a comprehensive and complete description of a new scheme to stabilize the power of a laser on a level needed for high precision metrology experiments.

Recent advances in ultrashort pulsed laser technology have opened new frontiers in atomic, molecular and optical sciences.

This book offers essential insights into c-Si based solar cells and fundamentals of reflection, refraction, and light trapping.

Laser machining is an emerging area with a wide variety of applications, ranging from bulk machining in metal forming to micromachining and microstructuring in electronics and biomedical applications.

This book serves as a comprehensive guide to the physics of thin-film optical spectra, bridging the gap between fundamental physics courses, such as optics, electrodynamics, quantum mechanics, and solid-state physics, and the highly specialized literature on the spectroscopy, design, and application of optical thin film coatings.

This is a collection of papers presented at the Topical Meeting on Optical BistabiJity (OB3) held December 2-4,1985 in Tucson, Arizona.

This book fills a gap between many of the basic solid state physics and materials sciencebooks that are currently available.

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

This book proposes a new approach to colour in digital images, based on the standard sRGB colour space and Python scripting.

In 1988 physicists and chemists commemorated the centenary of the discovery of the first liquid crystals.

This book deals with the design and analysis of fractal apertures in waveguides, conducting screens and cavities using numerical electromagnetics and field-solvers.

Over the last fifty years, a large number of spaceborne and airborne sensors have been employed to gather information regarding the earth's surface and environment.

The human ability to recognize objects on various backgrounds is amazing.

This book explains in a didactic way the basic concepts of spectral mixing, digital numbers and orbital sensors, and then presents the linear modelling technique of spectral mixing and the generation of fractional images.

This book discusses some research results for CMOS-compatible silicon-based optical devices and interconnections.

This text on the electrical, optical, magnetic, and thermal properties of materials stresses concepts rather than mathematical formalism.

This engaging text offers an accessible and clear treatment of the fundamentals of electromagnetics and optics, a core part of the standard undergraduate physics curriculum.

This book presents posits a solution to the current limitations in global connectivity by introducing a global laser/optical communication system using constellation satellites, UAVs, HAPs and Balloons.

This thesis examines the unique properties of gallium arsenide (GaAs)-based quantum-dot semiconductor optical amplifiers for optical communication networks, introducing readers to their fundamentals, basic parameters and manifold applications.

This thesis presents results crucial to the emerging field of indirect excitons.

This new edition gives a unique and broad coverage of basic laser-related phenomena that allow graduate students, scientists and engineers to carry out research in quantum optics and laser physics.

Optical network design and modelling is an essential issue for planning and operating networks for the next century.

Die Photonik beschäftigt sich mit der kontrollierten Erzeugung, Ausbreitung, Manipulation und Detektion von – vorwiegend kohärenten – Lichtfeldern.

This thesis describes key contributions to the fundamental understanding of materials structure and dynamics from a microscopic perspective.

This book deals with all aspects of plasmonics, basics, applications and advanced developments.