Optical physics

This book presents the latest results of quantum properties of light in the nanostructured environment supporting surface plasmons, including waveguide quantum electrodynamics, quantum emitters, strong-coupling phenomena and lasing in plasmonic structures.

This book includes contributions about mathematics, physics, philosophy of science, economics and finance and resulted from the Summer School "e;Complexity and Emergence: Ideas, Methods, with a Special Attention to Economics and Finance"e; held in Lake Como School of Advanced Studies, on 22-27 July 2018.

Dynamics of Coupled Structures, Volume 4: Proceedings of the 36th IMAC, A Conference and Exposition on Structural Dynamics, 2018, the fourth volume of nine from the Conference brings together contributions to this important area of research and engineering.

This textbook provides an introductory presentation of all types of lasers.

This book gives a complete spectral analysis of the non-self-adjoint Schrodinger operator with a periodic complex-valued potential.

This book offers a complete overview of photonic-enhanced materials from material development to a final photonic biomedical application.

The mid-infrared domain is a promising optical domain because it holds two transparency atmospheric windows, as well as the fingerprint of many chemical compounds.

This book is dedicated to the new two-dimensional one-atomic-layer-thick materials such as graphene, metallic chalcogenides, silicene and other 2D materials.

This book looks at advanced nanocomposites, introducing long-awaited concepts towards bridging the gap between nanostructured optical materials and next-generation imaging systems.

This book provides an overview of the applications of ion beam techniques in oxide materials.

This book offers a comprehensive introduction to confocal microscopy - with a particular focus on spectral confocal microscopy.

This book presents the most significant contributions to the DINAME 2017 conference, covering a range of dynamic problems to provide insights into recent trends and advances in a broad variety of fields seldom found in other proceedings volumes.

This book presents the Proceedings of the 54th Winter School of Theoretical Physics on Simplicity of Complexity in Economic and Social Systems, held in Ladek Zdroj, Poland, from 18 to 24 February 2018.

This book deals with an effect in celestial mechanics that has become quite important in exoplanet research.

This book presents select, recent developments in nonlinear and complex systems reported at the 1st Online Conference on Nonlinear Dynamics and Complexity, held on November 23-25, 2020.

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This thesis presents results crucial to the emerging field of indirect excitons.

This book presents a state-of-the-art overview of the major aspects involved in the science, technology and applications of ceramics, glasses and glass-ceramics.

Light signals in optical waveguides can be used to transmit very large amounts of data quickly and largely without interference.

This book covers the proceedings from the 2016 International Symposium on Chaos, Complexity and Leadership, and reflects current research results of chaos and complexity studies and their applications in various fields.

This thesis demonstrates the potential of two platforms to explore experimentally the emerging field of quantum thermodynamics that has remained mostly theoretical so far.

This thesis describes pioneering research on the extension of plasmonics schemes to the regime of high-intensity lasers.

This book gives an in-depth analysis of the physical phenomena of thrust production by laser radiation, as well as laser propulsion engines, and laser-propelled vehicles.

This book presents photoelectron spectroscopy as a valuable method for studying the electronic structures of various solid materials in the bulk state, on surfaces, and at buried interfaces.

This book for the first time examines periodic motions to chaos in time-delay systems, which exist extensively in engineering.

This work studies the relaxation dynamics of molecules in both the gas and liquid phases after strong field ionization, using transient absorption in the soft X-rays.

This book introduces the fractal interpolation functions (FIFs) in approximation theory to the readers and the concerned researchers in advanced level.

This treatment of modern topics relatedto the control of nonlinear systems is a collection of contributionscelebrating the work of Professor Henk Nijmeijer and honoring his 60thbirthday.

Since the 1960s, astrophysical discoveries have blossomed, due to the emergence of powerful and new observational tools.

This book highlights the most recent developments in quantum dot spin physics and the generation of deterministic superior non-classical light states with quantum dots.

This book presents new frontiers in data communication.

This book collects several contributions presented at the 2019 meeting of the Italian Synchrotron Radiation Society (SILS), held in Camerino, Italy, from 9 to 11 September 2019.

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

This book is aimed at description of recent progress in radiative transfer, atmospheric remote sensing, snow optics,  and light scattering.

This book offers a comprehensive and complete description of a new scheme to stabilize the power of a laser on a level needed for high precision metrology experiments.

Nonlinear Dynamics, Volume 1: Proceedings of the 35th IMAC, A Conference and Exposition on Structural Dynamics, 2017, the first volume of ten from the Conference brings together contributions to this important area of research and engineering.

This book presents the recent achievements towards the next generation of Light-emitting electrochemical cells (LEC).

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

Advancement of Optical Methods in Experimental Mechanics, Volume 3 of the Proceedings of the 2017 SEM Annual Conference & Exposition on Experimental and Applied Mechanics, the third volume of nine from the Conference, brings together contributions to this important area of research and engineering.

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.

This book explores the new materials and the resultant new field of piezotronics.

This book presents the synthetic methodologies as well as the properties and potential usage of various ruthenium-containing materials.

This book describes the physics behind the optical properties of plasmonic nanostructures focusing on chiral aspects.

This thesis sheds new light on the fascinating properties of composite quantum systems.

This book summarizes the most recent and compelling experimental results for complex oxide interfaces.

About this bookThis book features a collection of reviews focusing on interrelated topics in nano-optics and nanophononics written by some of the world's leading scientists in these fields.

This book provides an essential overview of computational neuroscience.

This book introduces the wider field of functional nanomaterials sciences, with a strong emphasis on semiconductor photonics.

This book presents a comprehensive description of the physics of free-electron lasers starting from the fundamentals and proceeding through detailed derivations of the equations describing electron trajectories, and spontaneous and stimulated emission.

The main purpose of this book is to introduce a broader audience to emergence by illustrating how discoveries in the physical sciences have informed the ways we think about it.