Optical Physics

This third edition, like its two predecessors, provides a detailed account of the basic theory needed to understand the properties of light and its...

This volume is a compilation of carefully selected questions at the PhD qualifying exam level, including many actual questions from Columbia Univer...

Holography: Principles and Applications provides a comprehensive overview of the theory, practical considerations, and applications of holography. ...

The propagation of light in dispersive media is a subject of fundamental as well as practical importance. In recent years attention has focused in ...

Since the invention of the laser, the variety of lasers and their uses have grown at a phenomenal rate. Scientists and engineers have at their disp...

This volume is a compilation of carefully selected questions at the PhD qualifying exam level, including many actual questions from Columbia Univer...

The importance of photonics in science and engineering is widely recognized and will continue to increase through the foreseeable future. In partic...

Compared to traditional electrical filaments, arc lamps, and fluorescent lamps, solid-state lighting offers higher efficiency, reliability, and env...

As different laser technologies continue to make it possible to change laser parameters and improve beam quality and performance, a multidisciplina...

Experimental studies carried out by a spectroscopic approach, and the techniques used for investigating the acquired information, can be given a ro...

In this volume, international leading experts in the study of thermally and optically stimulated luminescence give an up-to-date, comprehensive cov...

In recent years visual devices have proliferated, from the massive high-resolution, high-contrast screens to the tiny ones on mobile phones, with t...

Focuses on the growth and potential uses of infrared thermography as a nondestructive testing and monitoring technique. Part 1 of this monograph is...

Optical and Molecular Physics: Theoretical Principles and Experimental Methods addresses many important applications and advances in the field. Thi...

This book provides an overview of research achievements by industry experts and academic scientists in the subject area of Optoelectronics Technolo...

This important volume contains selected papers and extensive commentaries on laser trapping and manipulation of neutral particles using radiation p...

Nonlinear optics has been a rapidly growing field in recent decades. It is based on the study of effects and phenomena related to the interaction o...

In view of the rapid growth in both experimental and theoretical studies of multi-photon processes and multi-photon spectroscopy of atoms, ions and...

This book offers a complete revision for its introduction to the quantum theory of light, including notable developments as well as improvements in...

This book discusses quantum optics and investigates the quantum properties of interactions between atoms and laser fields. It is divided into three...

From Leonardo to Oppenheimer, from candles to lasers, from cave drawings to cinema, from stonehenge to quantum mechanics, from Genesis to the Big B...

This book describes the propagation of light in biaxial media, the properties of biaxial thin films, and applications such as birefringent filters ...

Near-field optics studies the behaviour of light fields in the vicinity of matter, where light is structured in propagating and evanescent fields. ...

Intended to provide scientists and engineers at synchrotron radiation facilities with a sound and convenient basis for designing beamlines for mono...