Optical physics

Quantum mechanics has shown unprecedented success as a physical theory, but it has forced a new view on the description of physical reality.

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.

This second edition enables readers to design lens systems for focusing beams of charged particles that have useful characteristics.

This book features chapters based on lectures presented by world-leading researchers of photon science from Russia and Japan at the first "e;STEPS Symposium on Photon Science"e; held in Tokyo in March 2015.

This volume builds upon the successful book Lanthanide Luminescence published in the Springer Series on Fluorescence in 2011.

This book presents up-to-date research developments and novel methodologies to solve various stability and control problems of dynamic systems with time delays.

This book highlights the first systematic synthesis of various research approaches in forensic medical diagnosis of the morphological and polycrystalline structure of human biological tissues and biological fluids.

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

Atomically precise metal nanocluster research has emerged as a new frontier.

Each chapter in this book is written by a group of leading experts in one particular type of microprobe technique.

Since the publication of the first edition in 1966, Eye and Brain has established itself worldwide as an essential introduction to the basic phenomena of visual perception.

The Proceedings of the 5th China and International Young Scientist Terahertz Conference highlight important research and technological progresses on terahertz sensors, terahertz detection, terahertz biophysics and bioeffects,  terahertz signal sources, terahertz transmission and regulation, terahertz device and materials, terahertz communication, terahertz radar and imaging, and the intersection and application of terahertz-related disciplines.

Studying and using light or "e;photons"e; to image and then to control and transmit molecular information is among the most challenging and significant research fields to emerge in recent years.

The role of diffraction methods for the solid-state sciences has been pivotal to determining the (micro)structure of a material.

A comprehensive review of cutting-edge solid state research, focusing on quantum dot nanostructures, for graduate students and researchers.

Since the publication of Jerlov's classic volume on optical oceanography in 1968, the ability to predict or model the submarine light field, given measurements of the inherent optical properties of the ocean, has improved to the point that model fields are very close to measured fields.

Tremendous technological developments and rapid progress in theory have opened a new area of modern physics called high-field electrodynamics: the systematic study of the interaction of relativistic electrons or positrons with ultrahigh-intensity, coherent electromagnetic radiation.

This textbook bridges the gap between university courses on electrodynamics and the knowledge needed to successfully address the problem of electrodynamics of metamaterials.

A typical optical system is composed of three basic components: a source, a detector, and a medium in which the optical energy propagates.

Photoacoustics promises to revolutionize medical imaging and may well make as dramatic a contribution to modern medicine as the discovery of the x-ray itself once did.

Classical asymptotic expansions, while producing a good approximation for the diffracted fields in general, appear hardly applicable in the case of extremely elongated bodies.

An accessible, introductory text explaining how to select, set up and use optical spectroscopy and optical microscopy techniques.

This book aims to overcome the traditional ray paradigm and provide an analytical paradigm for Nonimaging Optics based on Field Theory.

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When retired it is a blessing if one has not become too tired by the strain of one's professional career.

This book is about Nonlinear Optics, the study of how high-intensity light propagates through and interacts with matter.

Using numerous mathematical and numerical techniques of diffraction theory, Waves in Focal Regions: Propagation, Diffraction and Focusing of Light, Sound and Water Waves provides a full and richly illustrated description of waves in focal regions.

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This thesis showcases innovative new approaches aimed at advancing the next generation of long wave infrared (LWIR) light detectors and cameras.

At present, although most of the optical design processes are automated with the aid of computer software, the fundamental question of how we can generate the initial optical configuration such that it can be dealt with by the computer remains.

Complex system theory is rapidly developing and gaining importance, providing tools and concepts central to our modern understanding of emergent phenomena.

This book covers both classical and modern analytical methods in nonlinear systems.

Rapid development of microfabrication and assembly of nanostructures has opened up many opportunities to miniaturize structures that confine light, producing unusual and extremely interesting optical properties.

This book covers the combined subjects of organic electronic and optoelectronic materials/devices.

This book includes peer reviewed articles from IEMDST-2024, held on 04-05 July at NIT Warangal in India.

This book explores the extension of fiber optic communications technology to space optical communications.

Fundamentals of Optical Fiber Sensor Technology The field of optical fiber sensors continues to expand and develop, being increasingly influenced by new applications of the technologies that have been the topics of research for some years.

In this book the authors present several examples of techniques used to overcome the Abby diffraction limit using flat and 3D diffractive optical elements, photonic crystal lenses, photonic jets, and surface plasmon diffractive optics.

The EPSRC (Engineering and Physical Science Research Committee of the U.

This book provides a comprehensive presentation on most of the major topics in nonlinear optics and photonics, with equal emphasis on principles, experiments, techniques, and applications.

In view of the rapid growth in both experimental and theoretical studies of multi-photon processes and multi-photon spectroscopy of atoms, ions and molecules in chemistry, physics, biology, materials science, etc.

Chaos and nonlinear dynamics initially developed as a new emergent field with its foundation in physics and applied mathematics.

This book focuses on optical-wireless communication systems.

This edited volume covers technological developments and current research trends in the field of photonics, plasmonics and optics, focusing on photonic crystals, semiconductor optical devices, optical communications and optical sensors, with an emphasis on practical sectors.

Advancement of Optical Methods in Experimental Mechanics, Volume 3: Proceedings of the 2014 Annual Conference on Experimental and Applied Mechanics, the third volume of eight from the Conference, brings together contributions to this important area of research and engineering.

This book provides a comprehensive overview on emergent bursty patterns in the dynamics of human behaviour.

Dieses Buch unterscheidet sich von älteren Darstellungen der Optik durch die Grenzziehung gegen andere Gebiete der Physik.

The thesis describes the development of receiver technologies for sub-millimetre astronomy instruments, focusing on high performance coherent cryogenic detectors operating close to the superconductor gap frequency.