Other technologies and applied sciences

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.

Many natural objects have been found to be fractal and fractal mathematics has been used to generate many beautiful "e;nature"e; scenes.

This is the first book on explosion-generated water waves.

Laboratory physical models are a valuable tool for coastal engineers.

While the existing literature on offshore structures touch on model testing, a comprehensive text discussing the design, construction, instrumentation, testing and analysis of the physical model is lacking.

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 discusses the subject of wave/current flow around a cylinder, the forces induced on the cylinder by the flow, and the vibration pattern of slender structures in a marine environment.

This review volume, the third in the series, presents the latest topics for discussion, which provides invaluable information to coastal and ocean engineers around the world.

Ocean structures, including ships, boats, piers, docks, rigs and platforms, are subject to fair weather wind and waves, as well as violent storms.

This book contains updated, reviewed versions of the best papers on "e;Modelling Coastal Sea Processes"e; presented at the International Ocean and Atmosphere Pacific Conference, held in Adelaide, South Australia, on 23-27 October 1995.

This book contains updated, reviewed versions of some selected papers on "e;Sea-Level Changes and their Effects"e; presented at the International Ocean and Atmosphere Pacific Conference (OAP 95), held in Adelaide, South Australia, 23-27 October 1995.

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.

In the last two decades, one of the most important research accomplishments in coastal hydrodynamics has been the development of accurate numerical models for nonlinear water wave propagation over a complex bathymetry from a relatively deep-water depth into the surf zone.

This volume consists of five excellent review papers.

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.

This invaluable volume consists of five articles covering a wide range of topics in coastal engineering.

The aim of this book is to explain, analyze and compute the kinds of motions that appear in an extended vicinity of the geometrically defined equilateral points of the Earth-Moon system, as a source of possible nominal orbits for future space missions.

This book studies several problems related to the analysis of planned or possible spacecraft missions.

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.

It is well known that the restricted three-body problem has triangular equilibrium points.

In this book the problem of station keeping is studied for orbits near libration points in the solar system.

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.

This book presents a theoretical treatment, as well as a summary of practical methods of computation, of the forces and moments that act on marine craft.

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.

The use of pattern recognition has become more and more important in seismic oil exploration.

This invaluable volume consists of five articles covering a wide range of topics in coastal oceanographic engineering.

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 book is a useful source of ideas and information for scientists whose work involves understanding and modelling turbulent flows with free surfaces.

This book presents a wide range of recent advances in hydraulics and water engineering.

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.

Modern defence forces rely mainly on intelligent information systems and high technology armour.

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

This book contains more than 300 papers presented at the 28th International Conference on Coastal Engineering, held in Cardiff, Wales, in July 2002.

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.

Vibration is a natural phenomenon that occurs in a variety of engineering systems.

This book presents the state of the art in numerical and analytical techniques as well as future trends associated with mission design for libration point orbits.

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 book focuses on: (1) the physics of the fundamental dynamics of fluids and of semi-immersed Lagrangian solid bodies that are responding to wave-induced loads; (2) the scaling of dimensional equations and boundary value problems in order to determine a small dimensionless parameter I that may be applied to linearize the equations and the boundary value problems so as to obtain a linear system; (3) the replacement of differential and integral calculus with algebraic equations that require only algebraic substitutions instead of differentiations and integrations; and (4) the importance of comparing numerical and analytical computations with data from laboratories and/or nature.

This book presents the experience of coastal and port engineering development, as well as coastal environmental problems, in Asian and Pacific countries.

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.

During World War II, nations raced to construct the world's first nuclear weapon that would determine the future of the world.

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 introduces particle image velocimetry (PIV), a technique for water wave measurement in the laboratory and in the open ocean.