Optical Physics

This book offers an elementary introduction to optical spectroscopy with polarized light. It is written at a level suitable for undergraduate stude...

A comprehensive treatment of nonlinear optics emphasizing physical concepts and the relationhip between theory and experiment. Systematically descr...

The main objective of this book is to present the basic theoretical principles and practical applications for the classical interferometric techniq...

Colour in art - as in life - is both inspiring and uplifting, but where does it come from? How have artists found new hues, and how have these infl...

'She's a genius, I believe, because she lights up every subject she touches.' Hilary Mantel A Spectator Book of the YearGoethe claimed to know what...

"No one interested in the history of optics, the history of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century physics, or the general phenomenon of theory change ...

Colorimetry, the science of quantitvely describing color, is essential for color reproduction technology. This is because it creates standards by w...

Over the last decade, an increasingly advanced understanding of nature’s light manipulation strategies has allowed scientists and engineers to desi...

"a very valuable book for graduate students and researchers in the field of Laser Spectroscopy, which I can fully recommend"—Wolfgang Demtröder, Ka...

This introductory text is a reader friendly treatment of geometrical and physical optics emphasizing problems and solved examples with detailed ana...

Optical Multi-Bound Solitons describes the generation and transmission of multi-bound solitons with the potential to form the basis of the temporal...

This book details the lives of two married geniuses, Aden and Marjorie Meinel, who helped to pioneer modern optics and solar energy in the U.S. A...

Why are candle flames yellow? Why does ultraviolet light supposedly kill vampires? What about the monocle? Why was the monocle--a corrective lens t...