Optics & Light

Electromagnetic Scintillation describes the phase and amplitude fluctuations imposed on signals that travel through the atmosphere. These volumes provide a modern reference and comprehensive tutorial for this subject, treating both optical and microwave...

The Art and Science of Optical Design is a comprehensive introduction to lens design, covering the fundamental physical principles and key engineering issues. Several practical examples of modern computer-aided lens design are worked out in detail from...

This book presents the first comprehensive, interdisciplinary review of the rapidly developing field of air lasing. In most applications of lasers, such as cutting and engraving, the laser source is brought to the point of service where the laser beam is...

An outstanding reference book on an exciting topic, reaching out to the 21st century's key technologies. The editors, together with leading experts in the field from both academic research and industry, bring together the latest knowledge on this...

This book delves into optics and photonic materials, describing the development of an intelligent all-optical system capable of replicating the functional building blocks of the biological brain. Starting with an analysis of biological neuronal dynamics...

This book reviews the spaceborne and airborne remote sensing of clouds including cloud lidar and radar data analysis, snow and soil reflectance spectroscopy, and single light scattering by nonspherical scatterers. Providing deep insights into the latest...

This book highlights the use of LEDs in biomedical photoacoustic imaging. In chapters written by key opinion leaders in the field, it covers a broad range of topics, including fundamentals, principles, instrumentation, image reconstruction and data/image...

This book presents a survey of modern theoretical and experimental techniques in studies of light scattering phenomena and radiative transfer processes in random media. It presents reviews on light scattering by sea water and bubbles, and includes a...

This book reviews the spaceborne and airborne remote sensing of clouds including cloud lidar and radar data analysis, snow and soil reflectance spectroscopy, and single light scattering by nonspherical scatterers. Providing deep insights into the latest...

This book discusses both the theoretical and practical aspects of optics, photonics and lasers, presenting new methods, technologies, advanced prototypes, systems, tools and techniques as well as a general survey indicating future trends and directions...

This book highlights the growing applications of THz technology and various modules used for their successful realization. The enormous advantages of THz devices like higher resolution, spatial directivity, high-speed communication, greater bandwidth,...

This textbook provides an accessible and pedagogical explanation of the way microscopes magnify images and covers all techniques to date in transmitted and fluorescent light microscopy. The first section covers basic optics as it relates to microscopy...

The first textbook on mathematical methods focusing on techniques for optical science and engineering, this text is ideal for upper division undergraduate and graduate students in optical physics. Containing detailed sections on the basic theory, the...

This book provides a thorough introduction to the interaction of atoms and atomic ions with optical and magnetic fields. Particular emphasis is placed on the wealth of important multilevel effects, where atomic vapours exhibit anisotropic behaviour. As...

Computational Optical Coherence and Statistical Optics presents current approaches for simulating random optical fields with prescribed statistical properties. This book will benefit students studying statistical optics as well as researchers and...

The fourth edition of Pedrottis' Introduction to Optics is a comprehensive revision of a classic guide to the fascinating properties of light, now with new authors. Ideally suited for undergraduate optics courses in physics and electrical/electronic...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781632388872Author Summer NolanFormat HardbackPage Count 238Imprint NY Research PressPublisher NY Research PressWeight(grams) 635gDimensions(mm) 254mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781641168076Author Harold MasonFormat HardbackPage Count 248Imprint Callisto ReferencePublisher Callisto ReferenceWeight(grams) 871gDimensions(mm) 279mm *...

The potential of photonic signal processing (PSP) to overcome electronic limits for processing ultra-wideband signals, provide signal conditioning that can be integrated in line with fiber optic systems, and improve signal quality makes this technology...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781682857373Author Albie ReidFormat HardbackPage Count 258Imprint Willford PressPublisher Willford PressWeight(grams) 830gDimensions(mm) 276mm * 203mm * 16mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781682855799Author Roderick SwayneFormat HardbackPage Count 220Imprint Willford PressPublisher Willford PressWeight(grams) 748gDimensions(mm) 276mm * 203mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781682853665Author Vladimir LatinovicFormat HardbackPage Count 243Imprint Willford PressPublisher Willford PressWeight(grams) 853gDimensions(mm) 279mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781639893973Author Carl MacKenzieFormat HardbackPage Count 241Imprint States Academic PressPublisher States Academic PressWeight(grams) 794gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781635492088Author Albie ReidFormat HardbackPage Count 282Imprint Larsen and Keller EducationPublisher Larsen and Keller EducationWeight(grams)...

Presents readers with the basic science, technology, and applications for every type of adaptive lens An adaptive lens is a lens whose shape has been changed to a different focal length by an external stimulus such as pressure, electric field, magnetic...

An essential reference for optical sensor system design This is the first text to present an integrated view of the optical and mathematical analysis tools necessary to understand computational optical system design. It presents the foundations of...

Optical Transmission represents a wide set of visions of researchers who are active in the actual research scene in Europe. An aggregate of highlights of research in transmission with a state of the art presented by the researchers who are driving it are...

This book discusses how, in random media, light dramatically changes electron- electron interaction. Despite Coulomb repulsion, the effective interaction dem- strates attraction, even under strong pumping. Light (both coherent and natural) acts like an...

Highly Sensitive Optical Receivers primarily treats the circuit design of optical receivers with external photodiodes. Continuous-mode and burst-mode receivers are compared. The monograph first summarizes the basics of III/V photodetectors, transistor...

Nanospectroscopy addresses the spectroscopy of very small objects down to single molecules or atoms, or high-resolution spectroscopy performed on regions much smaller than the wavelength of light, revealing their local optical, electronic and chemical...

Sunlight profoundly influences the Earth's atmosphere and biosphere. Nature fuels the evolution of all living things, their visual systems, and the manner in which they adapt, accommodate, and habituate.Sun luminance measurements serve as data to...

Fiber-optic communication systems have revolutionized our telecommunication infrastructures - currently, almost all telephone land-line, cellular, and internet communications must travel via some form of optical fibers. In these transmission systems,...

Classical Charged Particle Beam Optics used in the design and operation of all present-day charged particle beam devices, from low energy electron microscopes to high energy particle accelerators, is entirely based on classical mechanics. A question of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780750349802Author Paramasivam SenthilkumaranFormat HardbackPage Count 316Imprint Institute of Physics PublishingPublisher Institute of Physics Publishing

The primary purpose of this book is to help you understand what is going on in Fourier Transform (FT) Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) spectroscopy. Modern life is now very largely life with "black boxes" that carry warning labels: "No user-serviceable...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780871698629Author A. Mark SmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 300Imprint American Philosophical Society PressPublisher American Philosophical Society Press

This volume focuses on nano-optical probing, manipulation, and analysis. It begins with recent developments in near-field optical spectroscopy that clarify quantum states at the nanoscale, followed by a theory for a photon-electron-phonon interacting...

This book demonstrates the research on VLC based indoor localization in four aspects: first, it constructs the concept and model of the system; second, positioning algorithms, as the main issue in indoor localization, are detailed; third, many approaches...

Holograms have been in the public eye for over a half-century, but their influences have deeper cultural roots. No other visual experience is quite like interacting with holograms; no other cultural product melds the technological sublime with magic and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780750357722Author Rafael G Gonzalez-AcunaFormat HardbackPage Count 340Imprint Institute of Physics PublishingPublisher Institute of Physics...