Optical physics

Metamaterials are geometrically patterned new materials that are arranged in periodic way on top of dielectric substrates to exhibit properties unobtainable naturally.

This book reports new findings in the fields of nonlinear optics, quantum optics and optical microscopy.

Nonlinear Dynamics, Volume 1.

This book presents an overview of the state of the art of the developing topic of nonlinear optics with contributions from leading experts in the field in China, ranging from weak light nonlinear optics, ultrafast nonlinear optics to electro-optical theory and applications.

MicroComputed Tomography has become the gold standard for studying 3D microscopic structures nondestructively, and this book provides up-to-date coverage of the modality.

Biomimetic photonics is a burgeoning field.

This book presents the key technologies of coherent optical wireless communication, covers topics such as beam coupling, signal optical polarization control and distorted wavefront correction.

Porous silicon is rapidly attracting increasing interest from various fields, including optoelectronics, microelectronics, photonics, medicine, chemistry, and biosensing.

The new edition will provide the sole comprehensive resource available for non-linear optics, including detailed descriptions of the advances over the last decade from world-renowned experts.

It was a greatest pleasure for me to learn that Springer-Verlag wished to produce a second edition of my book.

This volume focuses on Time-Correlated Single Photon Counting (TCSPC), a powerful tool allowing luminescence lifetime measurements to be made with high temporal resolution, even on single molecules.

Nonlinear Structures & Systems, Volume 1: Proceedings of the 37th IMAC, A Conference and Exposition on Structural Dynamics, 2019, the first volume of eight from the Conference brings together contributions to this important area of research and engineering.

Bridging the gap between laser physics and applied mathematics, this book describes laser dynamics for graduate students and researchers.

This book presents a new approach to understanding the foundation of quantum physics through the "e;quantum wave model"e; hypothesis.

Advanced Field-Effect Transistors: Theory and Applications offers a fresh perspective on the design and analysis of advanced field-effect transistor (FET) devices and their applications.

An effective laser safety program can mean big savings in time, money, effort, and most importantly, human well-being.

This book maximizes reader insights into the field of mathematical models and methods for the processing of two-dimensional remote sensing images.

This thesis describes pioneering research on the extension of plasmonics schemes to the regime of high-intensity lasers.

Moore's Law predicts that the degree of microprocessor integration of circuits would double every 18 months in DRAM.

Super-radiance: Multiatomic Coherent Emission provides a comprehensive, self-contained account of the theory and experiments of the quantum optic phenomenon of superradiance.

This book is an advanced textbook for scientists who require further training in femtosecond science.

What is the nature of light?

Photonics is the discipline of electrons and photons working in tandem to create new physics, new devices and new applications.

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

In the 50 years since the first volume of Progress in Optics was published, optics has become one of the most dynamic fields of science.

With the advent of lasers, numerous applications of it such as optical information processing, holography, and optical communication have evolved.

Atomic correlations have been studied in physics for over 50 years and known as collective effects until recently when they came to be recognized as a source of entanglement.

This book describes the fundamentals of THz communications, spanning the whole range of applications, propagation and channel models, RF transceiver technology, antennas, baseband techniques, and networking interfaces.

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 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.

Although the subject of optical design as a branch of applied physics is over one hundred years old, the use of aberration theory has changed considerably.

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

Since its inception in 1966, the series of numbered volumes known as Semiconductors and Semimetals has distinguished itself through the careful selection of well-known authors, editors, and contributors.

Principles and Applications of NanoMEMS Physics presents the first unified exposition of the physical principles at the heart of NanoMEMS-based devices and applications.

This book offers a valuable methodological approach to the state-of-the-art of the classical plate/shell mathematical models, exemplifying the vast range of mathematical models of nonlinear dynamics and statics of continuous mechanical structural members.

At the dawn of the 20th century, few scientists, even in their wildest dreams, could have imagined the momentous revolution ahead.

In the extensive fields of optics, holography and virtual reality, technology continues to evolve.

The era of Sustainable and Energy Efficient Nanoelectronics and Nanosystems has come.

This book covers the main ideas, methods, and recent developments of quantum-limit optical spectroscopy and applications to quantum information, resolution spectroscopy, measurements beyond quantum limits, measurement of decoherence, and entanglement.

Handbook of Optical Sensors provides a comprehensive and integrated view of optical sensors, addressing the fundamentals, structures, technologies, applications, and future perspectives.

The book opens a magic miniature world of electronics to the reader.

The thesis presents a systematic study of the Mpemba effect in a colloidal system with a micron-sized particle diffusing in a water bath.

The field of optoelectronic polymers has continuously expanded in the past two decades because of their innovative applications in a variety of technologies in optoelectronic, photonic and energy research.

This book presents select, recent developments in nonlinear and complex systems reported at the 1st Online Conference on Nonlinear Dynamics and Complexity, held on November 23-25, 2020.

In two volumes, this book presents a detailed, systematic treatment of electromagnetics with application to the propagation of transient electromagnetic fields (including ultrawideband signals and ultrashort pulses) in dispersive attenuative media.

Chemically and biologically functionalized piezoelectric sensors are attractive alternatives to surface-sensitive transducers due to their surpassing versatility.

This thesis investigates the detection efficiency of field-resolved measurements of ultrashort mid-infrared waves via electro-optic sampling for the first time.

The problem of determining the location of an object, which is usually called ranging, attracts at present much attention in many different areas of applications, among them in ecological and safety devices.