Optical physics

Advances in technology often rely on a world of photons as the basic units of light.

This book provides the first comprehensive, up-to-date and self-contained introduction to the emergent field of Programmable Integrated Photonics (PIP).

Physics on Your Feet (2nd Edition) is a significantly expanded collection of physics problems covering the broad range of topics in classical and modern physics that were, or could have been, asked at oral PhD exams at University of California at Berkeley.

This book tells the human story of one of man's greatest intellectual adventures - how it came to be understood that light travels at a finite speed, so that when we look up at the stars, we are looking back in time.

This textbook reduces the complexity of the coverage of optics to allow a student with only elementary calculus to learn the principles of optics and the modern Fourier theory of diffraction and imaging.

This is an introduction to the quantum theory of light and its broad implications and applications.

The Les Houches Summer School in August 2015 covered the emerging fields of cavity optomechanics and quantum nanomechanics.

At the dawn of the 20th century, few scientists, even in their wildest dreams, could have imagined the momentous revolution ahead.

Photomultipliers are extremely sensitive light detectors that can detect single photons.

Light-matter interaction is pervasive throughout the disciplines of optical and atomic physics, condensed matter physics, electrical engineering, and now increasingly in biology and medicine with frequency and length scales extending over many orders of magnitude.

This book describes the fundamentals of particle detectors as well as their applications.

Conjugated polymers have important technological applications, including solar cells and light emitting devices.

Polymer electronics is the science behind many important new developments in technology, such as the flexible electronic display (e-ink) and many new developments in transistor technology.

This book provides an introduction to quantum cascade lasers, including the basic underlying models used to describe the device.

Using a selection of key experiments performed over the past 30 years or so, we present a discussion of the strikingly counter-intuitive phenomena of the quantum world that defy explanation in terms of everyday "e;common sense"e; reasoning, and we provide the corresponding quantum mechanical explanations with a very elementary use of associated formalism.

Quantum computers, though not yet available on the market, will revolutionize the future of information processing.

This is a story about sand and how science and silicon changed our lives.

This book reviews up-to-date ideas of how the luminescence radiation in semiconductors originates and how to analyze it experimentally.

This book is a long-term history of optics, from early Greek theories of vision to the nineteenth-century victory of the wave theory of light.

This book reviews up-to-date ideas of how the luminescence radiation in semiconductors originates and how to analyze it experimentally.

This is a story about sand and how science and silicon changed our lives.

This book is a long-term history of optics, from early Greek theories of vision to the nineteenth-century victory of the wave theory of light.

Quantum computers, though not yet available on the market, will revolutionize the future of information processing.

Animal Eyes provides a comparative account of all known types of eye in the animal kingdom, outlining their structure and function with an emphasis on the nature of the optical systems and the physical principles involved in image formation.

Animal Eyes provides a comparative account of all known types of eye in the animal kingdom, outlining their structure and function with an emphasis on the nature of the optical systems and the physical principles involved in image formation.

The field of ferroelectricity has greatly expanded and changed in recent times.

The field of ferroelectricity has greatly expanded and changed in recent times.

Rapid development of microfabrication and assembly of nanostructures has opened up many opportunities to miniaturize structures that confine light, producing unusual and extremely interesting optical properties.

This book combines, for the first time, the topics of radar polarimetry and interferometry.

The second edition of this successful textbook provides an up-to-date account of the optical physics of solid state materials.

This book is addressed to upper-level undergraduate and graduate students involved in research in atomic, molecular, and optical physics.

This book combines, for the first time, the topics of radar polarimetry and interferometry.

Rapid development of microfabrication and assembly of nanostructures has opened up many opportunities to miniaturize structures that confine light, producing unusual and extremely interesting optical properties.

Most previous texts on quantum optics have been written primarily for the graduate student market at PhD level and above.

Analytical measurements at the single molecule level under ambient conditions have become almost routine in the past few years.

Rather different problems can be lumped together under the general term 'laser control of atoms and molecules'.

This book is primarily intended to accompany an advanced undergraduate course in atomic physics.

In two volumes, this book presents a detailed, systematic treatment of electromagnetics with application to the propagation of transient electromagnetic fields (including ultrawideband signals and ultrashort pulses) in dispersive attenuative media.

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

This book describes the state-of-the-art in the emerging field of optical trapping of ions, as well as the most recent advances enabling the use of this technique as a versatile tool for novel investigations in atomic physics.

Conjugated polymers have important technological applications, including solar cells and light emitting devices.

This textbook on optics provides an introduction to key concepts of wave optics and light propagation.

Nanometre sized structures made of semiconductors, insulators, and metals and grown by modern growth technologies or by chemical synthesis exhibit novel electronic and optical phenomena due to the confinement of electrons and photons.

Microcavities are semiconductor, metal, or dielectric structures providing optical confinement in one, two or three dimensions.

Quantum Optics and Nanophotonics consists of the lecture notes of the Les Houches Summer School 101 held in August 2013.

This book attempts to bridge in one step the enormous gap between introductory quantum mechanics and the research front of modern optics and scientific fields that make use of light.

The semiconductor laser, invented over 50 years ago, has had an enormous impact on the digital technologies that now dominate so many applications in business, commerce and the home.

Lasers are employed throughout science and technology, in fundamental research, the remote sensing of atmospheric gases or pollutants, communications, medical diagnostics and therapies, and the manufacturing of microelectronic devices.

Modern Optics is a fundamental study of the principles of optics using a rigorous physical approach based on Maxwell's Equations.

Metal-semiconductor nanostructures represent an important new class of materials employed in designing advanced optoelectronic and nanophotonic devices, such as plasmonic nanolasers, plasmon-enhanced light-emitting diodes and solar cells, plasmonic emitters of single photons, and quantum devices operating in infrared and terahertz domains.