Laser technology and holography

This book is primarily intended to accompany an advanced undergraduate course in atomic physics.

Introduction to Laser Science and Engineering provides a modern resource for a first course in lasers for both students and professionals.

This book provides an overview on the evolution of laser scanning technology and its noticeable impact in the structural engineering domain.

The Laser Manufacturing Process is a comprehensive guide to industrial laser processes, offering insights into their fundamentals, applications across industries, production specifics, and characteristics, including mechanical, metallurgical, and geometrical aspects, as well as potential defects.

This book introduces the fundamentals of laser shock peening (LSP) and its effects on the corrosion behaviours of metal alloy materials.

Get up to speed with digital holography with this compact and straightforward introduction to modern techniques and conventions.

This book introduces the emerging areas of laser-based manufacturing such as additive manufacturing (AM) of metal matrix composites (MMCs), joining of hard-to-weld superalloys, damage-free machining of fiber-reinforced composites, surface properties enhancement using cladding techniques, and modeling and simulation of laser beam manufacturing techniques.

The subject of this thesis is the further development of the local laser softening of high strength steels.

Simulations play an increasingly important role not only in scientific research but also in engineering developments.

The book introduces optical wave propagation in the irregular turbulent atmosphere and the relations to laser beam and LIDAR applications for both optical communication and imaging.

This book aims to give an overview of recent developments in indoor near-infrared optical wireless communication technologies and systems, including basic theories, operating fundamentals, system architectures, modelling, experimental demonstrations, advanced techniques, and most recently, the research efforts towards integrations.

This book describes the optical structure and optical properties of the human eye.

Micro-ring resonators (MRRs) are employed to generate signals used for optical communication applications, where they can be integrated in a single system.

Polyconjugated organic materials are revealing amorphous electrical and non-linear optical properties; this fact is opening up a whole new field of Materials Science aimed at the development of new technologies.

Vertical External Cavity Surface Emitting Lasers Provides comprehensive coverage of the advancement of vertical-external-cavity surface-emitting lasers Vertical-external-cavity surface-emitting lasers (VECSELs) emit coherent light from the infrared to the visible spectral range with high power output.

The book introduces optical wave propagation in the irregular turbulent atmosphere and the relations to laser beam and LIDAR applications for both optical communication and imaging.

This book demonstrates the research on VLC based indoor localization in four aspects: first, it constructs the concept and model of the system; second, positioning algorithms, as the main issue in indoor localization, are detailed; third, many approaches are proposed to further improve the positioning performance; fourth, challenges will be detailed.

The millimetre-wavelength region of the electromagnetic spectrum is increasingly exploited for a wide range of commercial, industrial, and military applications.

An accessible yet rigorous introduction to nanophotonics, covering basic principles and applications in lighting, lasers, and photovoltaics.

This book describes in detail the main concepts of theoretical spectroscopy of transition metal and rare-earth ions.

This volume of proceedings of the latest International Conference on Multiphoton Processes provides a timely report on the latest work on the interaction of lasers with atoms and molecules, including short laser pulses, intense fields, stabilization, high harmonic generation, coherent control of reactions and reports from leading laboratories.

This book covers the fundamentals of different laser-based manufacturing and processing, namely laser shock peening, laser micromachining, laser cleaning, cladding, remelting, laser honing, and other several aspects of lasers.

Lasers generally emit radiation, which is either simply linearly polarized or unpolarized and stochastically polarized.

Neutron optics studies the interactions of a beam of slow neutrons with matter.

Laser Fundamentals, published in 2004, provides an introduction to the physical and engineering principles of laser operation and design.

This comprehensive handbook gives a fully updated guide to lasers and laser technologies, including the complete range of their technical applications.

This book which focusses on mechanics, waves and statistics, describes recent developments in the application of differential geometry, particularly symplectic geometry, to the foundations of broad areas of physics.

The dielectric microstructures act as ultrahigh Q factors optical cavities, which modify the spontaneous emission rates and alter the spatial distributions of the input and output radiation.

This book introduces the applications of laser in surface modification, such as laser cladding of Stellite alloys and metal-ceramic composites.

This book provides a thorough exploration of various modulated apertures and their impact on improving microscope resolution, with a focus on confocal scanning laser microscopy (CSLM).

The State of the Art in High-Power Laser TechnologyFilled with full-color images, High-Power Laser Handbook offers comprehensive details on the latest advances in high-power laser development and applications.

This book shines a spotlight on the significance and usefulness of nanomaterials for the development of optoelectronic devices and their real-life applications.

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

Presents recent developments in theoretical and experimental research of nanophotonics Discusses properties and features of nanophotonic devices, e.

This book brings together in a single volume a unique contribution by the top experts around the world in the field of compact semiconductor lasers to provide a comprehensive description and analysis of the current status as well as future directions in the field of micro- and nano-scale semiconductor lasers.

This monograph is devoted to the creation of a comprehensive formalism for quantitative description of polarized modes' linear interaction in modern single-mode optic fibers.

In recent years, we have witnessed a rapid expansion of using super-thin metasurfaces to manipulate light or electromagnetic wave in a subwavelength scale.

Perovskite solar cells (PSCs) have emerged as one of the most promising new solar cells, with strong commercial potential.

Recent advances in ultra-high-power lasers, including the free-electron laser, and impressive airborne demonstrations of laser weapons systems, such as the airborne laser, have shown the enormous potential of laser technology to revolutionize 21st century warfare.

This new, updated and enlarged edition of the successful and exceptionally well-structured textbook features new chapters on such hot topics as optical angular momentum, microscopy beyond the resolution limit, metamaterials, femtocombs, and quantum cascade lasers.

Currently, light waves are ready to come into boxes of computers in high-performance computing systems like data centers and super computers to realize intra-box optical interconnects.

The photon, an abstract concept belonging to a global vacuum, only manifests itself duringinteraction with matter.

The photon, an abstract concept belonging to a global vacuum, only manifests itself duringinteraction with matter.

Black phosphorus (BP)-based two-dimensional (2D) nanomaterials are used as components in practical industrial applications in biomedicine, electronics, and photonics.

Fundamentals of Optical Waveguides is an essential resource for any researcher, professional or student involved in optics and communications engineering.

Perovskite solar cells (PSCs) have received significant attention in academia and industry due to their low cost and high-power conversion efficiency (PCE).

The authors are former students and research fellows of Prof Nicolaas Bloembergen, winner of the Nobel Prize, who has pioneered three distinct fields of science: NMR, masers and nonlinear optics.