Applied optics

Since the initial laser beam in 1960, use of lasers has mushroomed, opening new frontiers in medicine, manufacturing, communications, defense, and information storage and retrieval.

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

This textbook provides a comprehensive and didactic introduction from the basics to the current state of the art in the field of EEG/MEG source reconstruction.

The fabrication of an integrated circuit requires a variety of physical and chemical processes to be performed on a semiconductor substrate.

Fourier analysis is one of the most important concepts when you apply physical ideas to engineering issues.

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

A comprehensive manual on the efficient modeling and analysis of photonic devices for graduate students and researchers in engineering and physics.

This book highlights the recent scientific and technological innovations of various optical and optoelectronic fibers based on different functional structures and materials.

The complete guide to timing and synchronization in advanced service provider networks and enterprise applications As networks have advanced, so has the need for precise timing and synchronization--including highly accurate phase synchronization.

Advanced Fiber Access Networks takes a holistic view of broadband access networks-from architecture to network technologies and network economies.

Provides up-to-date developments in the field of remote sensing by assessing scale issues in land surface, properties, patterns, and processes Scale is a fundamental and crucial issue in remote sensing studies and image analysis.

This book describes the different principles and equipment used in medical imaging.

The authors of this book provide the first review of haptic optical tweezers, a new technique which brings together force feedback teleoperation and optical tweezers.

An outgrowth of the author's extensive experience teaching senior and graduate level students, this is both a thorough introduction and a solid professional reference.

Microcavities are semiconductor, metal, or dielectric structures providing optical confinement in one, two or three dimensions.

This book focuses on polarization microscopy, a powerful optical tool used to study anisotropic properties in biomolecules, and its enormous potential to improve diagnostic tools for various biomedical research.

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Mercury cadmium telluride (MCT) is the third most well-regarded semiconductor after silicon and gallium arsenide and is the material of choice for use in infrared sensing and imaging.

In How the Laser Happened, Nobel laureate Charles Townes provides a highly personal look at some of the leading events in twentieth-century physics.

A comprehensive and engaging textbook, covering the main areas of optics and its modern applications.

This book presents the fundamental and applied properties of different phosphor materials that exhibit the phenomenon of persistent luminescence (PerLum).

The definitive guide to LLMs, from architectures, pretraining, and fine-tuning to Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG), multimodal Generative AI, risks, and implementations with ChatGPT Plus with GPT-4, Hugging Face, and Vertex AIKey FeaturesCompare and contrast 20+ models (including GPT-4, BERT, and Llama 2) and multiple platforms and libraries to find the right solution for your projectApply RAG with LLMs using customized texts and embeddingsMitigate LLM risks, such as hallucinations, using moderation models and knowledge basesPurchase of the print or Kindle book includes a free eBook in PDF formatBook DescriptionTransformers for Natural Language Processing and Computer Vision, Third Edition, explores Large Language Model (LLM) architectures, applications, and various platforms (Hugging Face, OpenAI, and Google Vertex AI) used for Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Computer Vision (CV).

Advances in Chemical Mechanical Planarization (CMP), Second Edition provides the latest information on a mainstream process that is critical for high-volume, high-yield semiconductor manufacturing, and even more so as device dimensions continue to shrink.

Among the subjects reviewed in these Advances, the properties and computation of electromagnetic fields have been considered on several occasions.

This thesis investigates passively mode-locked semiconductor lasers by numerical methods.

This book presents research on quasi-random and random photonic systems for graduate students and researchers in optics, photonics and optical engineering.

The first book on the topic, providing a comprehensive account of sum-frequency spectroscopy including basic principles, applications, and future prospects.

In this book the interaction of radiation and matter, and the principles of laser operation are treated at a level suitable for fourth-year undergraduate courses or introductory graduate courses in physics, chemistry or engineering.

Optics is a science which covers a very large domain and is experiencing indisputable growth.

This book describes recent progress in the mechanistic studies and applications of surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) and tip-enhanced Raman scattering (TERS).

With emphasis on the physical and engineering principles, this book provides a comprehensive and highly accessible treatment of modern lasers and optoelectronics.

This book, the first dedicated to the topic, provides a comprehensive treatment of forward stimulated Brillouin scattering (SBS) in standard optical fibers.

In recent years, investments by cloud companies in mega data centers and associated network infrastructure has created a very active and dynamic segment in the optical components and modules market.

Laser cooling is an important emerging technology in such areas as the cooling of semiconductors.

This book is devoted to the consideration of unusual laser beams - vortex or singular beams.

Unites classical and modern photonics approaches, providing a thorough understanding of the interplay between plane waves, diffraction and modal analysis.

Among the subjects reviewed in these Advances, the properties and computation of electromagnetic fields have been considered on several occasions.

Chalcogenide glass is made up of many elements from the Chalcogenide group.

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

Experimental studies carried out by a spectroscopic approach, and the techniques used for investigating the acquired information, can be given a robust modern analytical framework in the design of new materials, and for emphasis on the expansion of physical foundations of new materials.

Video Tracking provides a comprehensive treatment of the fundamental aspects of algorithm and application development for the task of estimating, over time, the position of objects of interest seen through cameras.

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.

Optical Holography: Materials, Theory and Applications provides researchers the fundamentals of holography through diffraction optics and an overview of the most relevant materials and applications, ranging from computer holograms to holographic data storage.

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.

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

GaN and ZnO nanowires can by grown using a wide variety of methods from physical vapor deposition to wet chemistry for optical devices.

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.