Optical physics

In 1988 physicists and chemists commemorated the centenary of the discovery of the first liquid crystals.

The object of this school, held at Cargese, Corsica (France) from August 12th to 24th 1991, was the presentation of the field of guided wave nonlinear optics in a comprehensive, coherent, and heuristic fashion.

The quantum statistical properties of radiation represent an important branch of modern physics with rapidly increasing applications in spectroscopy, quantum generators of radiation, optical communication, etc.

Singularities in Fluids, Plasmas and Optics, which contains the proceedings of a NATO Workshop held in Heraklion, Greece, in July 1992, provides a survey of the state of the art in the analysis and computation of singularities in physical problems drawn from fluid mechanics, plasma physics and nonlinear optics.

Scanning near-field optical microscopy (SNOM, also known as NSOM) is a new local probe technique with a resolving power of 10--50 nm.

Remarkable advances in semiconductor growth and processing technologies continue to have a profound impact on condensed-matter physics and to stimulate the invention of novel optoelectronic effects.

The NATO Advanced Study on Waveguide Optoelectronics was held at the Kelvin Conference Centre in Glasgow, Scotland, between 30 July and 10 August 1990.

Optical remote sensing is of invaluable help in understanding the marine environment and its biogeochemical and physical processes.

High density digital magnetic and magneto-optical storage devices are widely used in audio, video, and data processing information technology, as well as in CAD/CAM computer systems.

Lasers are now recognized as practical alternatives to conventional techniques for many industrial applications.

Optical Fiber Sensor Technology covers both the principles and applications of this technology.

The idea for another conference on the theme of Infrared Astronomy with Arrays actually goes back to March 1987.

In last years increasing attention has been again devoted to interpretations of quantum theory.

This volume contains papers presented at the NATO Advanced Research Workshop (ARW) on Photons and Local Probes.

Fibre Optics has gained prominence in: telecommunications, data transmission and distribution, cable television networks, sensing and control, light probing and instrumentation.

As optical fiber communication systems have moved out of the laboratory and into commercial use over the past several years, the general field of guided wave and coherent optics has undergone a radical transformation.

Since their discovery, low dimensional materials have never stopped to intrigue scientists, whether they are physicists, chemists, or biochemists.

Remarkable recent developments in the field of quantum communications and quantum information processing include the achievement of quantum teleportation, quantum communication channels based on entangled states, and the discovery of quantum computing algorithms.

Silicon, the leading material in microelectronics during the last four decades, also promises to be the key material in the future.

How fast and powerful can computers become?

It is ironic that the ideas ofNewton, which described a beam of light as a stream ofparticles made it difficult for him to explain things like thin film interference.

The primary objective of this NATO Advanced Study Institute (ASI) was to present an up-to-date overview of various current areas of interest in the field of photovoltaic and related photoactive materials.

Photonics concerns the generation, transport, processing and detection of light.

Over the past decade or more, the art relating to modern optical waveguides has evolved as a nighly focused interdis- ciplinary field, so attractive, stimulating and full of far- reachin3 promise that no parallel could be found earlier in other branches of applied sciences except, perhaps, in solid- state electronics and computer technology.

Monte Carlo methods have been a tool of theoretical and computational scientists for many years.

The quantum statistical properties of radiation represent an important branch of modern physics with rapidly increasing applications in spectroscopy, quantum generators of radiation, optical communication, etc.

Optical Metrology is a rapidly expanding field i'n both its scientific foundations and technological developments, being of major concern to measurements, quality control, non-destructive tes- ting and in fundamental research.

The invention of the Laser, 25 years ago, has become an innovation with established industrial technology extended through diverse areas of economic viability (a 25% sales annual growth), and promising market perspectives.

This volume is based on the proceedings of the "e;NATO- Advanced study Institute on Mineral Processing Design"e; held in Bursa-Turkey on August 24-31, 1984.

This volume contains the lectures presented at the NATO Advanced Study Institute on "e;Frontiers of Laser Spectroscopy of Gases"e; held in the Hotel Golf Mar, Vimeiro, near Torres Vedras, Portugal from 30 March to 10 April 1987.

This volume on the novelties in the electronic properties of solids appears in occasion of Franco Bassani sixtieth birthday, and is dedicated to honour a scientific activity which has contributed so much of the development of this very active area of research.

Photonics, the counterpart of electronics, involves the usage of Photons instead of electrons to process information and perform various switching operations.

This book constitutes the Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Conjugated Polymers held at the University of Mons, Belgium, during the first week of September 1989.

This book gives an account of a number of recent developments in two different subfields of research, optics and micro--electronics.

This book summarizes the proceedings of the invited talks presented at the International Symposium of Physics and Application of Optical Solitons in Fibers held in Kyoto during November 14 to 17,1995.

A comprehensive, up-to-date review of the physics and applications of a major class of laser, the most important example of which is the copper vapour laser.

In the last few years it was seen the emergence of various new quantum phenomena specifically related with electronic or optical confinement on a sub-wavelength-size.

Bidirectional transmission over optical fibre networks may yield a large cost reduction because of the reduction of the network infrastructure by a factor two and the potential cost reduction by an integrated transceiver design.

The control of optical modes in microcavities or in photonic bandgap (PBG) materials is coming of age!

Low-dimensional semiconductor quantum structures are a major, high-technological development that has a considerable industrial potential.

Optics at the Nanometer Scale: Imaging and Storing with Photonic Near Fields deals with the fundamentals of and the latest developments and applications of near-field optical microscopy, giving basic accounts of how and under what circumstances superresolution beyond the half- wavelength Rayleigh limit is achieved.

Synthesis of nonequilibrium metallic phases has been an area of great interest to the materials processing community since early 1960.

This is the 5th edition of the Metra Martech Directory "e;EUROPEAN CENTRES OF EXPERTISE - SENSORS.

This contributed volume summarizes recent theoretical developments in plasmonics and its applications in physics, chemistry, materials science, engineering, and medicine.

This book starts at an introductory level and leads reader to the most advanced topics in fluorescence imaging and super-resolution techniques that have enabled new developments such as nanobioimaging, multiphoton microscopy, nanometrology and nanosensors.

This book is about the interaction of laser radiation with various surfaces at variable parameters of radiation.

This book gathers together a range of similar problems that can be encountered in different fields of modern quantum physics and that have common features with regard to multilevel quantum systems.