Optical Physics

This textbook on optics provides an introduction to key concepts of wave optics and light propagation. It uniquely makes extensive use of Fourier m...

Masers and Lasers: An Historical Approach examines the progress of research and practical use of lasers chronologically, covering the fundamental s...

Although chemists, biochemists, biologists, and material scientists are often interested in using nonlinear optical techniques for characterizing t...

This textbook on optics provides an introduction to key concepts of wave optics and light propagation. It uniquely makes extensive use of Fourier m...

Direct3D 11 offers such a wealth of capabilities that users can sometimes get lost in the details of specific APIs and their implementation. While ...

"This beautiful book can be read as a novel presenting carefully our quest to get more and more information from our observations and measurements....

Remarkable developments in the spectroscopy field regarding ultrashort pulse generation have led to the possibility of producing light pulses rangi...

Describing the phase of an electromagnetic field mode or harmonic oscillator has been an obstacle since the early days of modern quantum theory. Th...

"How large are the differences between the two samples to bematched?" "Can I use the measurement technique to help reproducethe color of a sample?"...

A Practical Guide to Lens Design focuses on the very detailed practical process of lens design. Every step from setup specifications to finalizing ...

This book presents new, promising theories on soft X-ray spectroscopy. As third generation synchrotron light sources have started operating, more p...

The material for these volumes has been selected from the past twenty years' examination questions for graduate students at University of Californi...

This book is the culmination of twenty-five years of teaching Geometrical Optics. The volume is organised such that the single spherical refracting...

This book provides an introduction to quantum optics for experimental physicists and for college students who have studied quantum mechanics. Its d...

The material for these volumes has been selected from the past twenty years' examination questions for graduate students at University of Californi...

Multi-photon excitation states of poly-atomic molecules undergoing a self-interaction via Kerr effect related processes are of great interest today...