Optical physics

This book gathers the best papers presented at the Fourth Italian National Conference on Sensors, held in Catania, Italy, from 21 to 23 February 2018.

High-performance secondary batteries, also called rechargeable or storage batteries, are a key component of electric automobiles, power storage for renewable energies, load levellers of electric power lines, base stations for mobile phones, and emergency power supply in hospitals, in addition to having application in energy security and realization of a low-carbon and resilient society.

There is hardly a field of science or engineering that does not have some interest in light scattering by small particles.

The Handbook of Photonics for Biomedical Science analyzes achievements, new trends, and perspectives of photonics in its application to biomedicine.

Graphene has many unique properties that have generated tremendous interest in the scientific community and make it suitable for several applications.

This edited volume will be the first book examining the art history of China's socialist period from the perspective of modernism, modernity, and global interactions.

Optics has become one of the most dynamic fields of science since the first volume of Progress in Optics was published, forty years ago.

This reference/text contains the latest signal processing techniques in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and magnetic resonance spectroscopy (MRS) for more efficient clinical diagnoses-providing ready-to-use algorithms for image segmentation and analysis, reconstruction and visualization, and removal of distortions and artifacts for increased detec

This book provides an analysis of the construction, diagnosis (as chaotic) and evaluation of models in chaos theory.

Fibre-to-the-Home networks constitute a fundamental telecom segment with the required potential to match the huge capacity of transport networks with the new user communication demands.

This book provides a comprehensive overview of the latest advances in laser techniques for micro-nano-manufacturing and an in-depth analysis of applications, such as 3D printing and nanojoining.

Many argue that telecommunications network infrastructure is the most impressive and important technology ever developed.

Terahertz (THz) and Mid-Infrared (MIR) radiation (TERA-MIR) can be transmitted through nearly any material without causing biological harm.

This book introduces the theory and research methods of partially coherent optical, points out the significance of this study, analyzes the basic theories involved in partially coherent light, and explains the complete coherence of laser is not a necessary condition for good directivity, and partially spatially coherent optical sources can also produce the same far-field intensity distribution as lasers.

Photonic integrated circuit (PIC) technology holds great potential for breaking through the bottlenecks in current photonic and optoelectronic networks.

This book presents a selection of contributions from the 4th International Conference on Structural Nonlinear Dynamics and Diagnostics, reflecting diverse aspects of nonlinear and complex dynamics.

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Understanding Complex Urban Systems takes as its point of departure the insight that the challenges of global urbanization and the complexity of urban systems cannot be understood - let alone 'managed' - by sectoral and disciplinary approaches alone.

This hand book is concerned with optical imaging - from simple pinhole cameras to complex imaging systems.

A comprehensive device model considering both spatialdistributions of the terahertz field and the field-effect self-mixing factorhas been constructed for the first time in the thesis.

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

The revised 2nd edition of this practical book provides an expanded treatment and comparison of techniques used in advanced optical measurements, guiding its reader from fundamental radiometric and photometric concepts to the state-of-the-art in highly sensitive measurements of optical losses and in spectroscopic detection using coherent laser light and spontaneous radiation.

In the almost fifty 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 is devoted to the modeling and understandingof complex urban systems.

The sampling lattice used to digitize continuous image data is a signi?

Quantum information science has found great experimental success by exploiting single photons.

This book provides a systemic and self-contained guide to the theoretical description of the fundamental properties of plasmonic waves.

Many books cover the determination of rate constants under different experimental conditions and different chemical composition of the reaction mixture in their formal treatment of thermal kinetics.

This book, based on a selection of invited presentations from a topical workshop, focusses on time-variable oscillations and their interactions.

Written by leading experimentalist Warwick P.

Caustics are natural phenomena, forming light patterns in rainbows or through drinking glasses, and creating light networks at the bottom of swimming pools.

Photovoltaik wendet sich an Studenten aus Physik, Chemie, Elektrotechnik, Umwelttechnik u.

Photons are an attractive option for testing fundamental quantum physics and developing new quantum-enhanced technology, including highly advanced computers and simulators, as well as precision sensing beyond shot-noise.

Major developments in the semiconductor industry are on the horizon through the use of two-dimensional (2D) materials, such as graphene and transition metal dichalcogenides, for integrated circuits (ICs).

This reference provides an overview of near-Earth laser communication theory developments including component and subsystem technologies, fundamental limitations, and approaches to reach those limits.

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This volume presents five review articles covering a broad range of topics which will be of interest to many scientists concerned with optics and related subjects.

This is the second edition of a very popular 1991 book describing the physics and technology of semiconductor electronic devices exploiting the Hall effect.

"e;Alberto Diaspro has been choreographing light's dance for over 20 years, and in Nanoscopy and Multidimensional Optical Fluorescence Microscopy, he has assembled a diverse group of experts to explain the methods they use to coax light to reveal biology's secrets.

Applied Photometry, Radiometry, and Measurements of Optical Losses reviews and analyzes physical concepts of radiation transfer, providing quantitative foundation for the means of measurements of optical losses, which affect propagation and distribution of light waves in various media and in diverse optical systems and components.

The book focuses on noise models in optical-wireless communication systems.

This thesis reports on sparsity-based multipath exploitation methods for through-the-wall radar imaging.

This book integrates the economics of aging and insight based on political economy and explores generational conflict in the context of governmental spending.

The alkali halide crystals have always been at the centre stage of solid-state physics.

Carefully structured to instill practical knowledge of fundamental issues, Optical Fiber Communication Systems with MATLAB and Simulink Models describes the modeling of optically amplified fiber communications systems using MATLAB and Simulink.

This book presents select proceedings of the Virtual International Conference on Futuristic Communication and Network Technologies (VICFCNT 2021).

This book highlights the comprehensive knowledge and latest progress in broadband terahertz (THz) technology.

The new edition will provide the sole comprehensive resource available for non-linear optics, including detailed descriptions of the advances over the last decade from world-renowned experts.

Many optical design technical books are available for many years which mainly deal with image optics design based on geometric optics and using sequential raytracing technique.