Optical physics

This handbook explains principles, processes, methods, and procedures of optical engineering in a concise and practical way.

Recently, the subject of nonlinear control systems analysis has grown rapidly and this book provides a simple and self-contained presentation of their stability and feedback stabilization which enables the reader to learn and understand major techniques used in mathematical control theory.

The investigation of light-matter interactions in materials, especially those on the nanoscale, represents perhaps the most promising avenue for scientific progress in the fields of photonics and plasmonics.

This invaluable book represents a substantial body of work describing the theory of the optical properties of thin island films and rough surfaces.

Progress in Optics, Volume 68 highlights new advances in the field of optics, with this updated volume presenting interesting chapters on a variety of timely topics in the field.

This book is a concise primer of quantum technology aiming at providing a comprehensive material of fundamentals to help beginners understand the common concepts and background theories to technologies for individual quantum systems.

Nonlinear behavior of light such as chaos can be observed during propagation of a laser beam inside the microring resonator (MRR) systems.

Solid State Physics, Volume 72, the latest release in this long-running serial, highlights new advances in the field with this new volume presenting interesting and timely chapters authored by an international board of experts.

Hierarchic Electrodynamics and Free Electron Lasers: Concepts, Calculations, and Practical Applications presents intriguing new fundamental concepts in the phenomenon of hierarchical electrodynamics as a new direction in physics.

Masers and Lasers: An Historical Approach examines the progress of research and practical use of lasers chronologically, covering the fundamental science in detail alongside fascinating biographical sketches of famous physicists and summaries of seminal papers.

This book is an edited volume of nine papers covering the different variants of the generalized multipole techniques (GMT).

Der Autor dieses Werks, mit dem Untertitel "Licht, Strahlengänge, Meßgeometrien, Beobachtungswinkel, Größen der Meßfläche und Meßöffnung, Glanzwirkung, Flüssigkeitsgehalt, Trocknung, Flüssigkeitswiederaufnahme, Subjektivität, Kronenkrümmung, Systemart, Meßmodus, Meßsystem-Objekt-Relation, Positionierung, Reproduzierbarkeit .

Adapted from a successful and thoroughly field-tested Italian text, the first edition of Electromagnetic Waves was very well received.

The promise of MEMS for aerospace applications has been germinating for years, and current advances bring the field to the very cusp of fruition.

X-ray experiments have been used widely in materials science, and conventional spectroscopy has been based on linear responses in light-matter interactions.

Finding and slzmg cracks and other crack-like discontinuities has been the center of attention for scientists and engineers developing and using nondestructive evaluation (NDE) technology.

This book deals with the practice of Optical Radiation Measurements with introductory material to introduce the topics discussed.

An introduction, for graduate students, to the underlying physics behind devices that drive today''s technologies.

This book presents a detailed analytical formulation, and step-by-step design procedure for the electromagnetic (EM) design of radar absorbing structures (RAS).

Advances in Imaging & Electron Physics merges two long-running serials-Advances in Electronics & Electron Physics and Advances in Optical & Electron Microscopy.

Optical Fiber Sensors: Advanced Techniques and Applications describes the physical principles of, and latest developments in, optical fiber sensors.

With the growing proliferation of nanotechnologies, powerful imaging technologies are being developed to operate at the sub-nanometer scale.

Kappa Distributions: Theory and Applications in Plasmas presents the theoretical developments of kappa distributions, their applications in plasmas, and how they affect the underpinnings of our understanding of space and plasma physics, astrophysics, and statistical mechanics/thermodynamics.

This book is on the iterative learning control (ILC) with focus on the design and implementation.

In this volume, international leading experts in the study of thermally and optically stimulated luminescence give an up-to-date, comprehensive coverage of the theoretical and experimental aspects of these subjects, as well as their applications.

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.

Photorefractive polymer composites are an unusually sensitive class of photopolymers.

This book focuses on the recent progress in nanophotonics technology to be used to develop novel nano-optical devices, fabrication technology and advanced systems.

This Festschrift is a tribute to an eminent scholar, scientist and engineer, Professor Richard Kounai Chang, on his retirement from Yale University on June 12, 2008.

This book contains comprehensive coverage of topics in optical physics and engineering for undergraduate students studying laser physics, optoelectronics, photonics and optical engineering.

Superconductivity of Metals and Cuprates covers the basic physics of superconductivity, both the theoretical and experimental aspects.

Master the physics and understand the current applications of modern X-ray and EUV sources with this fully updated second edition.

This book gathers selected and expanded contributions presented at the 4th Symposium on Space Optical Instruments and Applications, which was held in Delft, the Netherlands, on October 16-18, 2017.

To facilitate a deeper understanding of tensegrity structures, this book focuses on their two key design problems: self-equilibrium analysis and stability investigation.

In contrast to other introductions to special relativity, this one aims at a conceptually clear presentation of the theory.

This book presents a unique methodology of precious and original scientific work in optical microscopy that is scarce to be found elsewhere.

Free-space laser communications, also referred to as optical communica- tions, is a popular subject in today's technological marketplace.

Over the past decade, plasmonic nanoparticles have been the subject of extensive research, owing to their remarkable optical properties.

Optofluidics is an emerging field that involves the use of fluids to modify optical properties and the use of optical devices to detect flowing media.

Conjugated polymers have important technological applications, including solar cells and light emitting devices.

This book presents a collection of memoir papers on the development of modern and contemporary optics and optoelectronics in China from the 18th to 20th centuries.

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.

In this thesis, a new lidar (light detection and ranging) ceilometer capable of monitoring cloud base and sensitive to boundary layer aerosols is introduced.

This book provides a comprehensive survey of the technology of flash lamp annealing (FLA) for thermal processing of semiconductors.

This book reviews progress towards quantum simulators based on photonic and hybrid light-matter systems, covering theoretical proposals and recent experimental work.

In this paper we investigated the dynamics of the processes occurring in a Q-switched laser.

Foreword by Nobel laureate Professor Theodor W.