Optical physics

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.

Now that holography has matured (wIth Dennis Gabor having received the Nobel Prize In 1971) and that coherent optics has proved to be even more powerful than originally imagined, in open- ing the new field of "e;optical computing,"e; it is particularlyappropri- ate to make available to English-speaking readers the translation of a uniquely outstanding text which presents the general and per- manent foundations of the field.

Optical Multi-Bound Solitons describes the generation and transmission of multi-bound solitons with the potential to form the basis of the temporal coding of optical data packets for next-generation nonlinear optical systems.

Advanced spectroscopic techniques allow the probing of very small systems and very fast phenomena, conditions that can be considered "e;extreme"e; at the present status of our experimentation and knowledge.

This book presents a survey of modern theoretical and experimental techniques in studies of light scattering phenomena and radiative transfer processes in random media.

This book presents state-of-the-art research on quantum hybridization, manipulation, and measurement in the context of hybrid quantum systems.

This graduate-level textbook presents the principles, design methods, simulation, and materials of photonic circuits.

In this updated and expanded second edition of a well-received and invaluable textbook, Prof.

Choosing from the numerous 3D vision methods available can be frustrating for scientists and engineers, especially without a comprehensive resource to consult.

In the continuing push toward optical computing, the focus remains on finding and developing the right materials.

This book reviews the application of  semiconductor nanocrystals also known as colloidal quantum dots (QDs) to LED lighting for indoors and outdoors as well as LED backlighting in displays, summarizing the color science of QDs for lighting and displays and presenting recent developments in QD-integrated LEDs and display research.

Encyclopaedia of Optical Science, Technology and Engineering affect almost every aspect of our lives.

Throughout much of machine vision's early years the infrared imagery has suffered from return on investment despite its advantages over visual counterparts.

Die Kenntnis um die Todeszeit ist häufig ein, mitunter der zentrale Schlüssel zur Lösung von Kriminalfällen.

This book focuses mainly on the spectroscopy of laser materials, physics of laser materials, laser crystals and laser glasses.

"e;This beautiful book can be read as a novel presenting carefully our quest to get more and more information from our observations and measurements.

Quantum dots as nanomaterials have been extensively investigated in the past several decades from growth to characterization to applications.

This book will provide readers with a good overview of some of most recent advances in the field of technology for perovskite materials.

This second edition of the outstanding monograph on coherent states by Combescure and Robert published in 2012 is enriched with figures, historical information and numerical simulations and enlarged with five new chapters presenting important rigorous results obtained in the recent years.

This concise book introduces and discusses the basic theory of conical intersections with applications in atomic, molecular and condensed matter physics.

This volume presents the state of the art in the research on new possibilities for communication and computation based on quantum theory and nonlocality, as well as related directions and problems.

This important volume contains selected papers and extensive commentaries on laser trapping and manipulation of neutral particles using radiation pressure forces.

Major development efforts in organic materials research has grown for an array of applications.

"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.

In this day of digitalization, you can work within the technology of optics without having to fully understand the science behind it.

Holographic Interferometry provides a valuable andup-to-date source of information in the rapidly expandingfield.

In this book, the author describes the development of the experimental diffraction setup and structural analysis of non-crystalline particles from material science and biology.

This book provides in-depth knowledge about the fundamental physical properties of bulk and low dimensional semiconductors (LDS).

Thanks to the pioneering works of Ashkin and coworkers, optical tweezers (OTs) have become an invaluable tool for myriad studies throughout the natural sciences.

This book gives insight into the theoretical backgrounds of optical vortices and their propagation in free space and simple optical systems.

In recent years, novel families of materials have been discovered and significant improvements in classical thermoelectric materials have been made.

This volume presents infectious diseases modeled mathematically, taking seasonality and changes in population behavior into account, using a switched and hybrid systems framework.

The aim of this monograph is to outline the physics of image formation, electron-specimen interactions, and image interpretation in transmission el- tron microscopy.

The first of its kind, this book traces the evolution of motion picture technology in its entirety.

This book focuses on optical-wireless communication systems.

Photonics is a key technology of this century.

Progress in Optics

This book helps to solve the problems and challenges of satellite sensing in the current environment of increasing communications bandwidths and multiplicity of electromagnetic signals.

This book explores the methods needed for creating and manipulating HDR content.

This book explains what quantum states of light look like.

Stimulated Brillouin scattering (SBS) is the most important example of a stimulated scattering process-light scattering that occurs when the intensity of the light field itself affects the propagating medium.

This book provides a comprehensive review of the latest research on the science, technology, and applications of mode-locked fiber lasers generating pulse trains with the evolving state of polarization at time scales ranging from a few pulse widths to 10,000 laser cavity round-trip times.

This volume contains most of the papers presented at the "e;Workshop on Quasielastic Light Scattering Studies of Fluids and Macromolecular Solutions"e; held at CISE, Segrate (Milano), Italy, from 11 to 13 May, 1979.

Written by two of the world's leading researchers in the field, this is a systematic introduction to the fundamental principles of coherent control, and to the underlying physics and chemistry.

Non-linear stochastic systems are at the center of many engineering disciplines and progress in theoretical research had led to a better understanding of non-linear phenomena.

Remote Sensing deals with the fundamental ideas underlying the rapidly growing field of remote sensing.

This book offers an introduction to the physics of nonlinear phenomena through two complementary approaches: bifurcation theory and catastrophe theory.

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