Laser physics

This book examines the dynamics of competence building process at the firm level in a sample of leading Japanese and European companies engaged in the field of optoelectronics.

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This book has been written as part of a new series of scientific text-books being published by Plenum Publishing Company Limited.

Bismuth-containing compounds comprise a relatively unexplored materials system that is expected to offer many unique and desirable optoelectronic, thermoelectric, and electronic properties for innovative device applications.

This fourth volume of a four-volume textbook covers the oscillations of systems with one or more degrees of freedom; the concept of waves, focusing on light and sound; phase and group velocities, their physical meaning, and their measurement; diffraction and interference of light; polarization phenomena; and the formation of images in the eye and in optical instruments.

Although it took some time to establish the word, photonics is both widely accepted and used throughout the world and a major area of activity concerns nonlinear materials.

This book presents a comprehensive description of the physics of free-electron lasers starting from the fundamentals and proceeding through detailed derivations of the equations describing electron trajectories, and spontaneous and stimulated emission.

This book explores the possibility of using azimuthal Walsh filters as an effective tool for manipulating far-field diffraction characteristics near the focal plane of rotationally symmetric imaging systems.

The series of books discusses the physics of laser and matter interaction, fluid dynamics of high-temperature and high-density compressible plasma, and kinetic phenomena and particle dynamics in laser-produced plasma.

As optical fiber communication systems have moved out of the laboratory and into commercial use over the past several years, the general field of guided wave and coherent optics has undergone a radical transformation.

This book summarizes the most recent and compelling experimental results for complex oxide interfaces.

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 in this rapidly growing field of quantum electronics.

Compound semiconductor devices form the foundation of solid-state microwave and optoelectronic technologies used in many modern communication systems.

Planetary Nebulae and How to Observe Them is for amateur astronomers who want to go beyond the Messier objects, concentrating on one of the most beautiful classes of astronomical objects in the sky.

This volume presents papers from the biennial International Laser Radar Conference (ILRC), the world's leading event in the field of atmospheric research using lidar.

Digital Transmission Systems, Third Edition, is a comprehensive overview of the theory and practices of digital transmission systems used in digital communication.

This book provides a chronological introduction to the electromagnetic theory of light, using selected extracts from classic texts such as Gilbert's De Magnete, Franklin's Experiments and Observations on Electricity, and Huygens' Treatise on Light.

Critical infrastructures are targets for terrorism and deliver a valuable vector through which the proliferation of CBRN and explosive precursors can be detected.

The chapters in this volume were presented at the July-August 2006 NATO Advanced Study Institute on Imaging for Detection and Identi?

This fully revised and expanded 2nd edition provides a single authoritative resource describing the concepts of color and the application of color science across research and industry.

This book presents the principles, experimental technologies, up-to-date research findings and applications of various optical-computing technologies and devices.

This book highlights the use of LEDs in biomedical photoacoustic imaging.

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).

This book describes a simple yet innovative method for performing Raman spectroscopy of samples submerged under liquid nitrogen.

Optical Components for Communications is an incomparable book that provides the reader with an understanding of a highly technical subject in a way that is both academically sound and easy to read.

Advancements in digital sensor technology, digital image analysis techniques, as well as computer software and hardware have brought together the fields of computer vision and photogrammetry, which are now converging towards sharing, to a great extent, objectives and algorithms.

Particularly intense lightning discharges can produce transient luminous events above thunderclouds, termed sprites, elves and jets.

This volumes presents select papers presented during the International Conference on Photonics, Communication and Signal Processing Technologies held in Bangalore from July 18th to 20th, 2018.

Methods of scientific investigation can be divided into two categories: they are either macroscopic or microscopic in nature.

At the heart of this thesis is the young field of free electron laser science, whose experimental and theoretical basics are described here in a comprehensible manner.

Optical Fiber Sensor Technology covers both the principles and applications of this technology.

This book presents studies of complex nanostructures with unique optical responses from both theoretical and experimental perspectives.

There are many books in the market devoted to the review of certain fields.

The control of optical modes in microcavities or in photonic bandgap (PBG) materials is coming of age!

The PUILS series delivers up-to-date reviews of progress in Ultrafast Intense Laser Science, a newly emerging interdisciplinary research field spanning atomic and molecular physics, molecular science and optical science, which has been stimulated by the recent developments in ultrafast laser technologies.

This book provides a comprehensive analysis of quantum-confined semiconductor lasers, focusing on quantum dot lasers (QDLs) and interband quantum cascade lasers (ICLs).

This book is intended as an undergraduate textbook in electrodynamics at basic or advanced level.

This book is devoted to the theoretical and experimental investigation of the optoelectronic oscillator (OEO) with direct and external modulation of laser emission.

This book highlights the various topics in which luminescence and electrochemistry are intimately coupled.

These proceedings comprise invited and contributed papers presented at the 14th International Conference on X-Ray Lasers (ICXRL 2014).

High Speed Optical Communications provides a comprehensive coverage of the design and modelling of the devices and systems required for optical communication networks.

Optical remote sensing is of invaluable help in understanding the marine environment and its biogeochemical and physical processes.

This book covers resonating modes inside device and gives insights into antenna design, impedance and radiation patterns.

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.

"e;Real time"e; imaging techniques have assisted materials science studies especially for non-ambient environments.

This book discusses lock-in thermography (LIT) as a dynamic variant of the widely known IR thermography.

The advances in the theory of diffraction gratings and the applications of these results certainly determine the progress in several areas of applied science and engineering.