Optical physics

A volume in the Progress in Optics series, the papers in this book cover a range of topics, including: anamorphic beam shaping for laser and diffuse light; ultra-fast all-optical switching in optical networks; generation of dark hollow beams and their application; and two-photon lasers.

This monograph develops a generalised energy flow theory to investigate non-linear dynamical systems governed by ordinary differential equations in phase space and often met in various science and engineering fields.

Recent advances in ultrashort pulsed laser technology have opened new frontiers in atomic, molecular and optical sciences.

This book offers essential insights into c-Si based solar cells and fundamentals of reflection, refraction, and light trapping.

Learn how to overcome resolution limitations caused by atmospheric turbulence in Imaging Through Turbulence.

Laser machining is an emerging area with a wide variety of applications, ranging from bulk machining in metal forming to micromachining and microstructuring in electronics and biomedical applications.

The manipulation of light at the nanometer scale is highly pursued for both fundamental sciences and wide applications.

A large number of modern problems in physics, chemistry, and quantum electronics require a consideration of population dynamics in complex multilevel quantum systems.

This new volume will help materials scientists and engineers fully comprehend the principles of optics and optical phenomena and effectively utilize them for the design and fabrication of optical materials and devices.

The book introduces possibly the most compact, simple and physically understandable tool that can describe, explain, predict and design the widest set of phenomena in time-variant and nonlinear oscillations.

This book details the lives of two married geniuses, Aden and Marjorie Meinel, who helped to pioneer modern optics and solar energy in the U.

This book derives physical models from basic principles, studies the effect of equivalent models on the dynamic characteristics of phononic crystals and acoustic metamaterials, and analyzes the physical mechanisms behind vibration and noise reduction.

This book provides concepts and experimental demonstrations for various types of molecular layer deposition (MLD) and organic multiple quantum dots (organic MQDs), which are typical tailored organic thin-film materials.

The influence of light on the lives of living organisms is all-pervasive, affecting movement, vision, behavior, and physiological activity.

This book serves as a comprehensive guide to the physics of thin-film optical spectra, bridging the gap between fundamental physics courses, such as optics, electrodynamics, quantum mechanics, and solid-state physics, and the highly specialized literature on the spectroscopy, design, and application of optical thin film coatings.

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

What are the physical mechanisms that underlie the efficient generation and transfer of energy at the nanoscale?

Laser Speckle and Applications in Optics focuses on developments in laser speckle techniques, with emphasis on the experimental aspect of phenomena and on applications in optics.

During the last decade, there has been a great deal of interest in TFETs.

This is a collection of papers presented at the Topical Meeting on Optical BistabiJity (OB3) held December 2-4,1985 in Tucson, Arizona.

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This book fills a gap between many of the basic solid state physics and materials sciencebooks that are currently available.

Optics has become one of the most dynamic fields of science since the first volume of Progress in Optics was published, forty years ago.

The Handbook of Ellipsometry is a critical foundation text on an increasingly critical subject.

The development of near-field optics marked a major advance in microscopy and our ability to develop nanoscale technologies.

Although several books cover the coding theory of wireless communications and the hardware technologies and coding techniques of optical CDMA, no book has been specifically dedicated to optical coding theory-until now.

Remarkable developments in the spectroscopy field regarding ultrashort pulse generation have led to the possibility of producing light pulses ranging from 50 to5 fs and frequency tunable from the near infrared to the ultraviolet range.

In recent decades, graphene composites have received considerable attention due to their unique structural features and extraordinary properties.

This textbook presents problems with detailed solutions showing how to apply quantum theory to modern physics.

The author has shown that practically all our laws, principles, and theories are not physically realizable, since they were derived from an empty space paradigm.

This book proposes a new approach to colour in digital images, based on the standard sRGB colour space and Python scripting.

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

This book deals with the design and analysis of fractal apertures in waveguides, conducting screens and cavities using numerical electromagnetics and field-solvers.

Following the birth of the laser in 1960, the field of "e;nonlinear optics"e; rapidly emerged.

Over the last fifty years, a large number of spaceborne and airborne sensors have been employed to gather information regarding the earth's surface and environment.

There is no shortage of lens optimization software on the market to deal with today's complex optical systems for all sorts of custom and standardized applications.

This first of three volumes from the inaugural NODYCON, held at the University of Rome, in February of 2019, presents papers devoted to Nonlinear Dynamics of Structures, Systems and Devices.

For years scientists turned to the CRC Handbook of Laser Science & Technology for reliable data on optical materials.

This book highlights the optical properties of metal oxides at both the fundamental and applied level and their use in various applications.

This book gives a comprehensive account of modern x-ray science, based on the use of synchrotron radiation and x-ray-free electron lasers (XFELs).

DescriptionThis book provides a detailed overview of the evolution of undersea communications systems, with emphasis on the most recent breakthroughs of optical submarine cable technologies based upon Wavelength Division Multiplexing, optical amplification, new-generation optical fibers, and high-speed digital electronics.

Learn how to overcome resolution limitations caused by atmospheric turbulence in Imaging Through Turbulence.

The human ability to recognize objects on various backgrounds is amazing.

This book explains in a didactic way the basic concepts of spectral mixing, digital numbers and orbital sensors, and then presents the linear modelling technique of spectral mixing and the generation of fractional images.

This multi-contributed volume provides a practical, applications-focused introduction to nonlinear acoustical techniques for nondestructive evaluation.

This book covers the development of both experiment and theory in natural surface particle chemistry.

Conservation laws, reflecting the symmetry of space and time, play a vital role in understanding the surrounding world.

This book discusses some research results for CMOS-compatible silicon-based optical devices and interconnections.