Optical physics

Optical scanning holography (OSH) is an emerging area of interest with many potential novel applications, such as 3-D pattern recognition, 3-D microscopy, 3-D cryptography, and 3-D optical remote sensing.

Microstructured Polymer Optical Fibres describes the optical properties of microstructured fibres, how they are made and modelled, and outlines some potential applications.

Photonic Microsystems: Micro and Nanotechnology Applied to Optical Devices and Systems describes MEMS technology and demonstrates how MEMS allow miniaturization, parallel fabrication, and efficient packaging of optics, as well as integration of optics and electronics.

Demonstrational Optics presents a new didactical approach to the study of optics.

In addition to domestic animals the earliest records of mankind indicate that slavery, until the use of coal became widespread, has always been a significant aspect, or part, of nearly every society.

The Maxwell theory of electromagnetism was well established in the latter ni- teenth century, when H.

"e;It is our responsibility as scientists, knowing the great progress which comes from a satisfactory philosophy of ignorance, the great progress which is the fruit of freedom of thought, to proclaim the value of this freedom, to teach how doubt is not to be feared but welcomed and discussed; and to demand this freedom as our duty to all coming generations"e; -- Richard Feynman, 1955 -- First, as students from Cal Tech and MIT and then as researchers and teachers from other universities and industry, we are bene?

A pulse of light spreads in time as it propagates in a fiber due to the physical phenomenon called dispersion.

Partial differential equations (PDEs) and variational methods were introduced into image processing about fifteen years ago.

Semiconductor Physical Electronics, Second Edition, provides comprehensive coverage of fundamental semiconductor physics that is essential to an understanding of the physical and operational principles of a wide variety of semiconductor electronic and optoelectronic devices.

In one word, this is a responsible book; the rest is commentary.

The Physics of Automatic Target Recognition is part of a series focusing on Advanced Sciences and Technologies for Security Applications.

This is the third and final volume of a three volumes book series devoted to photorefractive effects, photorefractive materials and their applications.

Self-focusing has been an area of active scientific investigation for nearly 50 years.

Microoptics is still an emerging field with a huge potential for a large number of applications.

This book explores ways to improve the classical resolution limits of an imaging system.

In these exciting times of quotidianly progressing developments in communication techniques, where more than ever in the history of a technological progress, society's reliance on communication networks for medicine, education, data transfer, commerce, and many other endeavours dominates the human's everyday life, the optical networks are certainly one of the most promising and challenging networking options.

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

The aim of this monograph is to outline the physics of image formation, electron-specimen interactions, and image interpretation in transmission el- tron microscopy.

The papers in this volume cover the major areas of research activity in the field of ultrafast optics at the present time, and they have been selected to provide an overview of the current state of the art.

Due to the rapid progress in laser technology a wealth of novel fundamental and applied applications of lasers in atomic and plasma physics have become possible.

Optical networks are leaving the labs and becoming a reality.

VarietyisperhapsthemostamazingattributeofNature,withanalmostendlessarrayof different molecules and aggregates and tens of millions of distinct forms of life.

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

Quantum Imaging is a newly born branch of quantum optics that investigates the ultimate performance limits of optical imaging allowed by the laws of quantum mechanics.

In this second volume of the book series devoted to photorefractive effects we focus on the most recent developments in the field of photorefractive materials and we highlight the parameters which govern the photoinduced nonlinearity.

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

This book is the first graduate-level textbook presenting a comprehensive treatment of Data Converters.

This book, written from an industrial vantage point, describes the characteristics, design, and operation of solid-state lasers.

During the past ten years, there has been intensive development in theoretical and experimental research of solitons in periodic media.

Digital (or electronic) holography and its application to 3-D display is one of the formidable problems of evolving areas of high technology that has been receiving great attention in recent years.

Extreme ultraviolet radiation, also referred to as soft X-rays or XUV, offers very special optical properties.

Withtheappearanceoflasershavecomerealpossibilitiesofrevealingnum- ous nonlinear phenomena of diverse nature resulting from the interaction of strong electromagnetic ?

Microwave Photonics: from Components to Applications and Systems deals with the rapidly growing area of Microwave Photonics, and includes an extended study of the interactions between optical signals and microwave (f > 1GHz) and millimeter-wave (f > 30 GHz) electrical signals for broadband applications.

Laser ablation describes the interaction of intense optical fields with matter, in which atoms are selectively driven off by thermal or nonthermal mechanisms.

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The attraction of quantum computation and quantum communica- tion theory and experiments hes in the fact that we engineer both them themselves and the quantum systems they treat.

Free-space laser communications, also referred to as optical communica- tions, is a popular subject in today's technological marketplace.

Recent significant developments in sensor science and technology, such as the design of ultramicroelectrodes and arrays, are providing considerable stimulation in research.

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

Novel system performance through nanostructuring has been recognized in many branches of science in the last decades.

This is the second edition of this advanced textbook written for scientists who require further training in femtosecond science.

The last two years have witnessed a continuation in the breakthrough shift toward pulse tube cryocoolers for long-life, high-reliability cryocooler applications.

Nonlinear optical techniques are now recognized as the most efficient means available to generate laser radiation at wavelengths that are presently inaccessible via conventional sources.

Principles and Applications of NanoMEMS Physics presents the first unified exposition of the physical principles at the heart of NanoMEMS-based devices and applications.