Optical physics

This book provides a solid foundation for understanding radar energy warfare and stealth technology.

This book reviews the spaceborne and airborne remote sensing of clouds including cloud lidar and radar data analysis, snow and soil reflectance spectroscopy, and single light scattering by nonspherical scatterers.

This textbook, based on the authors' class-tested material, is accessible to students at the advanced undergraduate and graduate level in physics and engineering.

This thesis presents a comprehensive theoretical description of classical and quantum aspects of plasmonics in three and two dimensions, and also in transdimensional systems containing elements with different dimensionalities.

This book covers basic- to expert-level applications in computer holography, a strong candidate for the ultimate 3D display technology.

This textbook is specifically designed to meet the needs of students taking the two-semester calculus-based introductory physics courses now favored in many countries around the world.

This book provides comprehensive coverage of the new wide-bandgap semiconductor gallium oxide (Ga2O3).

This collection covers new aspects of numerical methods in applied mathematics, engineering, and health sciences.

This book is about morphogenesis as the genesis of forms.

The book is concerned with the concepts of chaos and fractals, which are within the scopes of dynamical systems, geometry, measure theory, topology, and numerical analysis during the last several decades.

This book captures cutting-edge research in semiconductor quantum dot devices, discussing preparation methods and properties, and providing a comprehensive overview of their optoelectronic applications.

This book provides a comprehensive overview of the state-of-the-art in the development of semiconductor nanostructures and nanophotonic devices.

These proceedings gather a selection of invited and contributed papers presented during the 16th International Conference on X-Ray Lasers (ICXRL 2018), held in Prague, Czech Republic, from 7 to 12 October 2018.

This book is written for researchers and postgraduates who are interested in developing high-accurate energy demand forecasting models that outperform traditional models by hybridizing intelligent technologies.

This book develops analytical methods for studying the dynamical chaos, synchronization, and dynamics of structures in various models of coupled rotators.

This book presents the proceedings of the "e;5th International Interdisciplinary Chaos Symposium on Chaos and Complex Systems (CCS).

This book provides a concise and user-friendly guide to the most common and important numbers, laws and formulas in clinical vision science.

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

This third of three volumes from the inaugural NODYCON, held at the University of Rome, in February of 2019, presents papers devoted to New Trends in Nonlinear Dynamics.

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.

This book covers the fundamental aspects of fiber lasers and fiber amplifiers, and includes a wide range of material from laser physics fundamentals to state-of-the-art topics in this rapidly growing field of quantum electronics.

This book focuses on the use of novel electron microscopy techniques to further our understanding of the physics behind electron-light interactions.

The long-awaited third edition of this classic textbook provides a genuinely accessible introduction to the principles and technology of optical communication systems.

Invisibility has fascinated people since time immemorial, but only a decade ago did invisibility become a serious subject of scientific investigation.

This concise book introduces and discusses the basic theory of conical intersections with applications in atomic, molecular and condensed matter physics.

This classroom-tested textbook is a modern primer on the rapidly developing field of quantum nano optics which investigates the optical properties of nanosized materials.

This book includes both theoretical and practical aspects within optics, photonics and lasers.

Advancement of Optical Methods & Digital Image Correlation in Experimental Mechanics, Volume 3 of the Proceedings of the 2019 SEM Annual Conference & Exposition on Experimental and Applied Mechanics, the third volume of six from the Conference, brings together contributions to this important area of research and engineering.

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

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This book offers a genuinely practical introduction to the most commonly encountered optical and non-optical systems used for the metrology and characterization of surfaces, including guidance on best practice, calibration, advantages and disadvantages, and interpretation of results.

Nobody has to tell you that when things go bad, they go bad quickly and seemingly in bunches.

This book discusses human perception and performance within the framework of the theory of self-organizing systems.

This book is primarily concerned with the computational aspects of predictability of dynamical systems - in particular those where observations, modeling and computation are strongly interdependent.

This book describes the state-of-the-art in the emerging field of optical trapping of ions, as well as the most recent advances enabling the use of this technique as a versatile tool for novel investigations in atomic physics.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 6th International Symposium on Chaos, Complexity and Leadership (ICCLS).

This book gathers selected and expanded contributions presented at the 5th Symposium on Space Optical Instruments and Applications, which was held in Beijing, China, on September 5-7, 2018.

This book addresses the basic physical phenomenon of small-angle scattering (SAS) of neutrons, x-rays or light from complex hierarchical nano- and micro-structures.

What is the nature of light?

Experts of fluid dynamics agree that turbulence is nonlinear and nonlocal.

This biography is a personal portrait of one of the best-known Dutch physicists, Nicolaas Bloembergen.

This updated, second edition textbook provides a thorough and accessible treatment of semiconductor lasers from a design and engineering perspective.

This revised and updated edition of the well-received book by C.

This book systematically presents a fundamental theory for the local analysis of bifurcation and stability of equilibriums in nonlinear dynamical systems.

This book offers a bird's-eye view of the recent development trends in photovoltaics - a big business field that is rapidly growing and well on its way to maturity.

This book addresses the peculiarities of nonlinear wave propagation in waveguides and explains how the stratification depends on the waveguide and confinement.

This is the proceedings of the IUTAM Symposium on Exploiting Nonlinear Dynamics for Engineering Systems that was held in Novi Sad, Serbia, from July 15th to 19th, 2018.

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

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

This dissertation covers several important aspects of relativistically intense laser-microplasma interactions and some potential applications.