Optical physics

A comprehensive presentation of the theory and simulation of optical waveguides and wave propagations in a guided environment, Guided Wave Photonics: Fundamentals and Applications with MATLAB supplies fundamental and advanced understanding of integrated optical devices that are currently employed in modern optical fiber communications systems and p

This book highlights a comprehensive coverage of the science and technology of multi-orbit inter-satellite links.

This book introduces the basic fundamentals, models, emulators and analyses of mem-elements in the circuit theory with applications.

In the face of growing challenges, we need modes of thinking that allow us to not only grasp complexity but also perform it.

This book presents a modern theory of so-called weak spatial dispersion (WSD) in composite media of optically small inclusions without natural magnetism and optical nonlinearity.

InP is a key semiconductor for the production of optoelectronic and photonic devices.

Fiberglass and Glass Technology: Energy-Friendly Compositions and Applications provides a detailed overview of fiber, float and container glass technology with special emphasis on energy- and environmentally-friendly compositions, applications and manufacturing practices which have recently become available and continue to emerge.

This book brings together more closely researchers working in the two fields of quantum optics and nano-optics and provides a general overview of the main topics of interest in applied and fundamental research.

This volume contains six review articles dealing with topics of current research interest in optics and in related fields.

This atlas provides a detailed overview of the novel technique of ex vivo confocal microscopy for rapid imaging of excised tissues in dermatological practice.

Topics in Nonlinear Dynamics, Volume 1: Proceedings of the 31st IMAC, A Conference and Exposition on Structural Dynamics, 2013, the first volume of seven from the Conference, brings together contributions to this important area of research and engineering.

This book presents a comprehensive treatise on the advances in the use of light-emitting diodes (LEDs) for sustainable crop production and describes the latest photomorphogenesis research findings.

The dielectric microstructures act as ultrahigh Q factors optical cavities, which modify the spontaneous emission rates and alter the spatial distributions of the input and output radiation.

This book examines the variety of potential laser diagnostic techniques and presents a considerable theoretical foundation elucidating physics relevant to the laser diagnostics.

This book covers a broad range of topics from the interdisciplinary research field of ultrafast intense laser science, focusing on atoms and molecules interacting with intense laser fields, laser-induced filamentation, high-order harmonics generation, and high power lasers and their applications.

This volume on the novelties in the electronic properties of solids appears in occasion of Franco Bassani sixtieth birthday, and is dedicated to honour a scientific activity which has contributed so much of the development of this very active area of research.

Digital holography and digital image processing are twins born by computer era.

This book brings together the recent cutting-edge work on computational methods in photonics and their applications.

Polarized light is a pervasive influence in our world-and scientists and engineers in a variety of fields require the tools to understand, measure, and apply it to their advantage.

This book highlights recent advances in nonlinear dynamics and control with applications in mechanics and physics.

This book highlights recent advances of optical spatial solitons in photorefractive materials ranging broadly from the coupling, modulation instability, effect of pyroelectricity, and the stability of photorefractive solitons, among other topics.

This book highlights the novel research in quantum memory networking, especially quantum memories based on cold atomic ensembles.

In the fourty-six years that have gone by since the first volume of Progress in Optics was published, optics has become one of the most dynamic fields of science.

This book provides fundamental theoretical concepts for the understanding, the modelling, and the optimisation of energy conversion and storage devices.

Advanced Optical Instruments and Techniques includes twenty-three chapters providing processes, methods, and procedures of cutting-edge optics engineering design and instrumentation.

This book discusses the spectral properties of solid-state laser materials, including emission and absorption of light, the law of radiative and nonradiative transitions, the selection rule for optical transitions, and different calculation methods of the spectral parameters.

The field of nonlinear optics has witnessed a tremendous evolution since its beginnings in the early sixties.

Advances in Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics, Volume 66 provides a comprehensive compilation of recent developments in a field that is in a state of rapid growth.

These proceedings present a selection of invited and contributed papers presented during the 18th International Conference on X-Ray Lasers (the 18th ICXRL), held in Shanghai, China, from 17 to 21 July 2023.

This book presents a comprehensive and coherent summary of techniques for enhancing the resolution and image contrast provided by far-field optical microscopes.

Volume XXXIX presents five review articles dealing with topics of current research interest in optics.

This book provides a thorough exploration of various modulated apertures and their impact on improving microscope resolution, with a focus on confocal scanning laser microscopy (CSLM).

This comprehensive handbook gives a fully updated guide to lasers and laser systems, including the complete range of their technical applications.

With the ongoing, worldwide installation of 40 Gbit/s fiber optic transmission systems, there is an urgency to learn more about the photonic devices supporting this technology.

This book deals with 3D nanodevices such as nanowire and nanosheet transistors at 7 nm and smaller technology nodes.

Contemporary optics is the foundation of many of today's technologies including various focusing and defocusing devices, microscopies and imaging techniques.

An in-depth exploration of the dynamics of lasers and other relevant optical systems for graduate students and researchers.

This book covers the most recent developments in adaptive dynamic programming (ADP).

This book discusses in detail fiber optic communications systems.

The need for new types of sensors is more critical than ever.

This book introduces the fundamentals and principles of laser shock peening (LSP) for aeronautical materials.

In this volume, six review articles which cover a broad range of topics of current interest in modern optics are included.

This book describes a unique combination of quantum chemical methods for calculating the basic physical properties of luminescent materials, or phosphors.

Quantum Dots and Polymer Nanocomposites: Synthesis, Chemistry, and Applications reviews the properties, fabrication, and current and potential users of quantum dots-based polymer composites.

Since the invention of the first working laser in 1960, development of these devices has progressed at an unprecedented rate, to the extent that the laser is now a common part of everyday life, from the semiconductor laser used in CD players and telecommunication systems to the high power eximer lasers used in manufacturing processes.

This is a practical guide to using a small astronomical telescope of a size that corresponds to most "e;first"e; telescopes - around 75-150 mm, i.

This new edition provides a state-of-the-art survey of ellipsometric methods used to study organic films and surfaces, from laboratory to synchrotron applications, with a special focus on in-situ use in processing environments and at solid-liquid interfaces.