Laser Technology & Holography

Over 20 years ago, world-wide optical communications was not possible; critical pieces of technology in both computing and communication were just ...

It is expected that ongoing advances in optics will revolutionise the 21st century as they have the last quarter of the 20th. Such fields as commun...

''Optical and Electro-Optical Properties of Liquid Crystals: Nematic and Smectic Phases'' describes the general properties of the most popular liqu...

This book gathers the latest research from around the globe on the subject of lasers and optics research. Topics discussed include polarisation dep...

Optical Spectroscopy is an interdisciplinary science dedicated to generating and building knowledge in the field of spectroscopy and as a tool for ...

Laser ablation is the process of removing material from a solid (or occasionally liquid) surface by irradiating it with a laser beam. At low laser ...

Quantum cascade lasers (QCLs) are unipolar devices with lasing occurring through transitions between quantised energy levels within the conduction ...

Holography, invented in 1947 by the Hungarian physicist Dennis Gabor, is a two-step imaging technique that comprises the successful combination of ...

This book studies the electrical, optical and structural properties of the Be-oped GaInas/AlGaAs multiple quantum-well structures (MQWs) at differe...

This book presents new research related to femtosecond laser ablation, coherent control, electronic and thermal processes, colouring, nanoscale hea...

The Department of Defense''s (DOD) development work on high-energy military lasers, which has been underway for decades, has reached the point wher...

This book presents and discusses a promising technology for fabrication of the one- and two-dimensional nanoperiodic structures on the solid surfac...

Microbiochips, such as a lab-on-a-chip (LOC) devices and micro total analysis systems, can be regarded conceptually as a biological equivalent of c...

This volume includes a collection of papers presented in Symposium TT, 'Laser-Material Interactions at Micro/Nanoscales', at the Spring 2011 Materi...

An invaluable text for the teaching, design, and development of gas sensor technology. This excellent resource synthesizes the fundamental principl...

An optical lattice is formed by the interference of counter-propagating laser beams, creating a spatially periodic polarization pattern. The result...

This book illustrates the history of Atomic Physics and shows how its most recent advances allow the possibility of performing precise measurements...