Laser physics

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.

Optical information processing of the future is associated with a new generation of compact nanoscale optical devices operating entirely with light.

This textbook provides comprehensive and detailed information on electro-optic modulation, which plays important roles in lightwave networks including optical fiber links, visible ray communications, fiber-wireless, etc.

Over the last decade, stellar interferometry has developed from a specialist tool to a mainstream observing technique, attracting scientists whose research benefits from milliarcsecond angular resolution.

This book covers the basics, realization and materials for high power laser systems and high power radiation interaction with matter.

This book presents some of the latest achievements in nanotechnology and nanomaterials from leading researchers in Ukraine, Europe, and beyond.

A thorough knowledge of the physics of atoms and quanta is clearly a must for every student of physics but also for students of neighbouring disciplines such as chemistry and electrical engineering.

My aim in this introductory text is to present a comprehensible discussion of certain technical topics and recent developments in color science that I believe are of real interest to artists and designers.

In this paper we investigated the dynamics of the processes occurring in a Q-switched laser.

This book presents recent theoretical and experimental results of localized optical modes and low-threshold lasing in spiral photonic media.

This book entitled "e;Laser Additive Manufacturing of High-Performance Materials"e; covers the specific aspects of laser additive manufacturing of high-performance new materials components based on an unconventional materials incremental manufacturing philosophy, in terms of materials design and preparation, process control and optimization and theories of physical and chemical metallurgy.

The focus of electromagnetic theory is initial boundary value and boundary value problems for the Maxwell equations.

The thesis describes the development of receiver technologies for sub-millimetre astronomy instruments, focusing on high performance coherent cryogenic detectors operating close to the superconductor gap frequency.

This book serves as a comprehensive, up-to-date reference about this cutting-edge laser technology and its many new and interesting developments.

This volume is based on papers presented at the International Symposium on X-Ray Microscopy held at Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton NY, August 31-September 4, 1987.

This book focuses on optical-wireless communication systems.

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

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

This is the second of two volumes that review, for the first time, all major aspects of photorefractive effects and their applications.

This volume contains selected and expanded contributions presented at the 3rd Symposium on Space Optical Instruments and Applications in Beijing, China June 28 - 29, 2016.

This book presents quantum phononics as an exciting new field of research, and introduces readers to the quantum nature of phonons and their application to quantum technologies.

This book is designed to provide graduate students and research beginners with an introductory review of recent developments in the field of microscopic magneto-optics.

This updated and enlarged new edition of Semiconductor Optics provides an introduction to and an overview of semiconductor optics from the IR through the visible to the UV, including linear and nonlinear optical properties, dynamics, magneto and electrooptics, high-excitation effects and laser processes, some applications, experimental techniques and group theory.

Optical and photonic systems and devices have significant potential for homeland security.

The field of optical and laser remote sensing has grown rapidly in recent years.

This book focuses on optical vortices, including beams carrying orbital angular momentum and vector beams.

This book presents the main research advances in the field of photofunctional rare earth hybrid materials.

First-generation semiconductors could not be properly termed "e;doped- they were simply very impure.

This thesis demonstrates and investigates novel dual-polarization interferometric fiber-optic gyroscope (IFOG) configurations, which utilize optical compensation between two orthogonal polarizations to suppress errors caused by polarization nonreciprocity.

COST - the acronym for European COoperation in Science and Technology - is the oldest and widest European intergovernmental network for cooperation in - search.

Elements of Quantum Optics gives a broad coverage of the basic elements necessary to understand and carry out research in laser physics and quantum optics.

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

Photonic crystal fibers, also known as microstructured or holey fibers, have recently generated great interest in the scientific community thanks to the new ways provided to control and guide light, not obtainable with conventional optical fibers.

The second edition, which appeared in 2005 and contains substantial - dates and amendments compared to the ?

This book is the result of more than ten years of research and teaching in the field of quantum electronics.

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

Observational Astrophysics follows the general outline of an astrophysics undergraduate curriculum targeting practical observing information to what will be covered at the university level.

Sources of ultrashort laser pulses are nowadays commercially available and have entered many areas of research and development.

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

This book focuses on pulverized coal particle devolatilization, ignition, alkali metal release behavior, and burnout temperature using several novel optic diagnostic methods on a Hencken multi-flat flame burner.

The book includes high-quality papers presented at the Second National Conference of Information, Photonics and Communication (2019), organized by the Department of Electronics & Communication Engineering, B.

This book is focused on the nonlinear theoretical and mathematical problems associated with ultrafast intense laser pulse propagation in gases and in particular, in air.

This research- and application-oriented book covers main topical areas of optical fibers.