Optical physics

This biography is a personal portrait of one of the best-known Dutch physicists, Nicolaas Bloembergen.

This book provides comprehensive coverage of the new wide-bandgap semiconductor gallium oxide (Ga2O3).

Written in the 1980s by one of the fathers of chaos theory, Otto E.

"e;Real time"e; imaging techniques have assisted materials science studies especially for non-ambient environments.

This book provides a concise and user-friendly guide to the most common and important numbers, laws and formulas in clinical vision science.

This book discusses the design of new space missions and their use for a better understanding of the dynamical behaviour of solar system bodies, which is an active field of astrodynamics.

This thesis presents first successful experiments to carrier-envelope-phase stabilize a high-power mode-locked thin-disk oscillator and to compress the pulses emitted from this laser to durations of only a few-optical cycles.

This engaging text offers an accessible and clear treatment of the fundamentals of electromagnetics and optics, a core part of the standard undergraduate physics curriculum.

This is the proceedings of the IUTAM Symposium on Exploiting Nonlinear Dynamics for Engineering Systems that was held in Novi Sad, Serbia, from July 15th to 19th, 2018.

This book is a short primer in engineering mathematics with a view on applications in nonlinear control theory.

This book covers basic- to expert-level applications in computer holography, a strong candidate for the ultimate 3D display technology.

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

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This book includes both theoretical and practical aspects within optics, photonics and lasers.

This book compiles recent research in the field of nonlinear dynamics, vibrations and damping applied to engineering structures.

This book provides wide-ranging coverage of current developments in biomedical sensing based on photonic techniques.

Devised at the beginning of the 20th century by french physicists Charles Fabry and Alfred Perot, the Fabry-Perot optical cavity is perhaps the most deceptively simple setup in optics, and today a key resource in many areas of science and technology.

This book addresses the peculiarities of nonlinear wave propagation in waveguides and explains how the stratification depends on the waveguide and confinement.

Experts of fluid dynamics agree that turbulence is nonlinear and nonlocal.

This book provides an in-depth description and discussion of different multi-modal diagnostic techniques for cancer detection and treatment using exact optical methods, their comparison, and combination.

This book offers a valuable methodological approach to the state-of-the-art of the classical plate/shell mathematical models, exemplifying the vast range of mathematical models of nonlinear dynamics and statics of continuous mechanical structural members.

This 14th volume in the PUILS series presents up-to-date reviews of advances in Ultrafast Intense Laser Science, an interdisciplinary research field spanning atomic and molecular physics, molecular science, and optical science, which has been stimulated by the rapid developments in ultrafast laser technologies.

This thesis presents a comprehensive theoretical description of classical and quantum aspects of plasmonics in three and two dimensions, and also in transdimensional systems containing elements with different dimensionalities.

This book presents the proceedings of the "e;5th International Interdisciplinary Chaos Symposium on Chaos and Complex Systems (CCS).

This concise volume provides an introduction to the working principles, design, and construction of air-stable inverted organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs), which lead to the realization of practical flexible electronics.

The conference has an interdisciplinary focus and aims to bring together scientists - mathematicians, electrical engineers, computer scientists, and physicists, from universities and industry - to have in-depth discussions of the latest scientific results in Computational Science and Engineering relevant to Electrical Engineering and to stimulate and inspire active participation of young researchers.

This book collects recent developments in nonlinear and complex systems.

This book presents state-of-the-art solution methods and applications of stochastic optimal control.

This book aims to present a survey of a large class of nonlinear dynamical systems exhibiting mixed-mode oscillations (MMOs).

These proceedings gather a selection of invited and contributed papers presented during the 16th International Conference on X-Ray Lasers (ICXRL 2018), held in Prague, Czech Republic, from 7 to 12 October 2018.

This book comprises a detailed consideration of novel approaches developed in the field of frequency conversion of laser sources in laser-induced plasmas during the last few years.

This book acquaints readers with recent developments in dynamical systems theory and its applications, with a strong focus on the control and estimation of nonlinear systems.

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

This book reviews recent advances in the synthesis, characterization, and physico-chemical properties of anisotropic nanomaterials.

This thesis reports the remarkable discovery that, by arranging the dipoles in an ordered array with particular spacings, it is possible to greatly enhance the cross-section and achieve a strong light-matter coupling (>98% of the incident light).

This book presents theories of deformable elastic strings and rods and their application to broad classes of problems.

This book analyzes the updated principles and applications of nonlinear approaches to solve engineering and physics problems.

This clearly written thesis discusses the development of a highly innovative single-photon source that uses active optical switching, known as multiplexing, to increase the probability of delivering photons into a single mode.

This thesis focuses on nonlinear spectroscopy from a quantum optics perspective.

This book is aimed at description of recent progress in studies of multiple and single light scattering in turbid media.

Gathering 20 chapters contributed by respected experts, this book reports on the latest advances in and applications of sliding mode control in science and engineering.

This book provides the state-of-the art of the present understanding of avalanche phenomena in both functional materials and geophysics.

This volume collects the edited and reviewed contribution presented in the 7th iTi Conference in Bertinoro, covering fundamental and applied aspects in turbulence.

This book focuses on recent interconnected topics in nanophotonics written by scientists at the forefront of these fields.

This book lies at the interface of machine learning - a subfield of computer science that develops algorithms for challenging tasks such as shape or image recognition, where traditional algorithms fail - and photonics - the physical science of light, which underlies many of the optical communications technologies used in our information society.

This book presents the recent progress in the field of nanophotonics.

This thirteenth volume in the PUILS series covers a broad range of topics from this interdisciplinary research field, focusing on atoms, molecules, and clusters interacting in intense laser field and high-order harmonics generation and their applications.

This book describes the fundamentals of THz communications, spanning the whole range of applications, propagation and channel models, RF transceiver technology, antennas, baseband techniques, and networking interfaces.

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

The raw numbers of high-energy-density physics are amazing: shock waves at hundreds of km/s (approaching a million km per hour), temperatures of millions of degrees, and pressures that exceed 100 million atmospheres.