Applied optics

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.

This book is an international collection of contributions from academia, industry and the armed forces.

With significant progress made in recent years, vertical cavity surface emitting lasers (VCSELs) have emerged as potential lightwave sources with a variety of applications, including high speed optical interconnects, parallel data links, optical recording, 2-D scanning, and optical signal processing.

X-ray absorption fine structure (XAFS) is a powerful technique in characterization of structures and electronic states of materials in many research fields including, e.

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 focuses mainly on the spectroscopy of laser materials, physics of laser materials, laser crystals and laser glasses.

Advances during the last two decades in radio electronics, space science and computers have turned remote sensing technology into one of the most effective tools for global exploration and environmental monitoring.

Using lasers to induce and probe surface processes has the advantages of quantum state specificity, species selectivity, surface sensitivity, fast time-resolution, high frequency resolution, and accessibility to full pressure ranges.

Using lasers to induce and probe surface processes has the advantages of quantum state specificity, species selectivity, surface sensitivity, fast time-resolution, high frequency resolution, and accessibility to full pressure ranges.

This compilation of review articles by leading experts presents clearly the trend in future optoelectronic devices.

Optoelectronics is a rapidly expanding field of research and development.

Interest in the automatic processing and analysis of document images has been rapidly increasing during the past few years.

This book discusses some of the most important emerging optoelectronic technologies foreseen to have major technical and business impact in the future.

In the past, infrared imaging has been used exclusively for military applications.

This book provides the most comprehensive study of information processing techniques and issues in remote sensing.

This book describes the basic properties of charged beam transport and the theory of accelerators with radiative damping.

This book is composed of seven invited papers which present the current status of high speed diode lasers.

This volume contains state-of-the-art research papers on adaptive optics used outside the usual astronomical and military applications.

Foreword by Charles H TownesThis volume includes highlights of the theories underlying the essential phenomena occurring in novel semiconductor lasers as well as the principles of operation of selected heterostructure lasers.

This book describes advances in both experimental and theoretical treatments in the field of energy transfer processes that are relevant to various fields, such as spectroscopy, laser technology, phosphors, artificial solar energy conversion, and photobiology.

The XV International Conference on Laser Spectroscopy brought together spectroscopists from all over the world working in the very diverse and still growing field of laser spectroscopy.

This invaluable book provides a comprehensive treatment of design and applications of semiconductor optical amplifiers (SOA).

Laser cleaning is very important for modern high technology.

This volume of original papers has been assembled to honor the achievements of Professor Thomas S Huang in the area of image processing and image analysis.

Optical communications networks are becoming increasingly important as there is demand for high capacity links.

Infrared technologies are very important for a wide range of military, scientific and commercial applications.

The last research frontier in high frequency electronics now lies in the so-called THz (or submillimeter-wave) regime between the traditional microwave and infrared domains.

The last research frontier in high frequency electronics lies in the so-called terahertz (or submillimeter wave) regime, between the traditional microwave and the infrared domains.

This volume comprises a collection of invited and selected contributions presented at the 16th International Conference on Laser Spectroscopy in Palm Cove, Queensland, Australia, 13-18 July 2003.

This is the first book on tunable external cavity semiconductor diode lasers, providing an up-to-date survey on the physics, technology, and performance of widely applicable coherent radiation sources of tunable external cavity diode lasers.

This volume concerns the latest results on pulsed plasma production by energetic laser pulses irradiating solid targets.

Optical beams are electromagnetic waves that remain essentially concentrated around a mean axis upon free propagation or that are guided by suitable structures.

This invaluable book provides a comprehensive treatment of the design and applications of the semiconductor optical amplifier (SOA).

This book deals with the fundamentals of wave optics, polarization, interference, diffraction, imaging, and the origin, properties, and optical effects of turbulence in the Earth's atmosphere.

The explosion of data arising from rapid advances in communication, sensing and computational power has concentrated research effort on more advanced techniques for the representation, processing, analysis and interpretation of data sets.

Laser Cleaning II is the second of a series of books reporting research on the use of lasers for cleaning material surfaces and related micro-scale and nano-scale laser processing.

This proceedings volume presents invited reviews and original short notes of recent results obtained in studies concerning the fabrication and application of nanostructures, which hold great promise for the new generation of electronic and optoelectronic devices.

This book presents the latest developments and issues in both experimental and theoretical studies of multi-photon processes and the spectroscopy of atoms, ions and molecules in physics, chemistry, biology and material science.

The eighteenth International Conference on Laser Spectroscopy was held on 24-29 June 2007 in Telluride, Colorado.

This volume presents information on the exciting breakthroughs and the very quickly evolving fields of research in laser science and applications.

This unique volume contains selected papers presented at the 6th International Conference on Photonics and Imaging in Biology and Medicine (PIBM 2007), held on November 4-6, 2007 at Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, P R China.

This invaluable book offers a comprehensive overview of the technologies and applications of optoelectronic sensors.

This book collects a number of papers presented at the 13th Italian Conference on Sensors and Microsystems.

This book contains proposals to redesign the scanning electron microscope, so that it is more compatible with other charged particle beam instrumentation and analytical techniques commonly used in surface science research.

This Singaporean-French Symposium aims to strengthen existing research collaboration between French and Singapore scientists, and to explore and develop new collaborations in IPAL (Image Perception, Access & Language) - the Singaporean-French international research lab created between the French National Research Center (CNRS), the National University of Singapore (NUS), the Institute for Infocomm Research (I2 R-A*STAR) and the Joseph Fourier University (UJF).

Polarization is a vector nature of light that plays an important role in optical science and engineering.

This book opens a new avenue to an engendering field of applied physics, located at the "e;crossing"e; of modern photonics, electromagnetics, acoustics and material science.

A mechanical oscillator coupled to the optical field in a cavity is a typical cavity optomechanical system.

This volume aims is to illustrate the state-of-the-art as well as the newest and latest applications of photonics in safety and security.

Significant progress in engineering has allowed the production of devices that can optically detect, differentiate and treat surface or near-surface cancers.