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Optical Systems Engineering

by Keith Kasunic

A practical guide to optical system design and development

Optical Systems Engineering emphasizes first-order, system-level estimates of optical performance. Building on the basic principles of optical design...

Chalcogenide Glasses for Infrared Optics

by A. Ray Hilton

Cutting-edge techniques for yielding high-quality chalcogenide glasses

This pioneering work describes the technology, developed over a 50-year period, to utilize chalcogenide glasses as infrared optical materials....

Sensors Handbook

by Sabrie Soloman

Complete, State-of-the-Art Coverage of Sensor Technologies and Applications

Fully revised with the latest breakthroughs in integrated sensors and control systems, Sensors Handbook, Second Edition provides all...

Integrated Nanophotonic Devices

by Zeev Zalevsky & Ibrahim Abdulhalim

Nanophotonics is a field of science and technology based on the manipulation of light with equally miniscule structures, in the same way that computer chips are used to route and switch electrical signals. By...

Frontiers in Electronics

by SORIN CRISTOLOVEANU & MICHAEL S SHUR

Frontiers in Electronics includes the best papers of WOFE-11 invited by the Editors and down selected after the peer review process. This book is conceived to make available in the international arena extended...

Fringe Pattern Analysis for Optical Metrology: Theory, Algorithms, and Applications

by Manuel Servin, J. Antonio Quiroga & Moises Padilla

The main objective of this book is to present the basic theoretical principles and practical applications for the classical interferometric techniques and the most advanced methods in the field of modern fringe...

Frontiers in Electronics: Advanced Modeling of Nanoscale Electron Devices

by Benjamin Iñiguez & Tor A Fjeldly

This book consists of four chapters to address at different modeling levels for different nanoscale MOS structures (Single- and Multi-Gate MOSFETs). The collection of these chapters in the book are attempted...

Vectorial Optical Fields: Fundamentals and Applications

by Qiwen Zhan

Polarization is a vector nature of light that plays an important role in optical science and engineering. While existing textbook treatments of light assume beams with spatially homogeneous polarization, there...

Photonics for Safety and Security

by Antonello Cutolo, Anna Grazia Mignani & Antonella Tajani

This volume aims is to illustrate the state-of-the-art as well as the newest and latest applications of photonics in safety and security. The contributions from renowned and experienced Italian and international...

High Power Laser Handbook

by Hagop Injeyan & Gregory Goodno

The State of the Art in High-Power Laser Technology

Filled with full-color images, High-Power Laser Handbook offers comprehensive details on the latest advances in high-power laser development and applications....

Handbook of Optics, Third Edition Volume I : Geometrical and Physical Optics, Polarized Light, Components and Instruments(set): Geometrical and Physic

by Michael Bass, Casimer DeCusatis & Jay M. Enoch

The most comprehensive and up-to-date optics resource availablePrepared under the auspices of the Optical Society of America, the five carefully architected and cross-referenced volumes of the Handbook of Optics,...

RFID in the Supply Chain

by Pedro M. Reyes

A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO IMPROVING SUPPLY CHAIN OPERATIONS WITH RFID

Written by the Director of the Center for Excellence in Supply Chain Management at Baylor University, RFID in the Supply Chain offers expert insight...

Dispersion Engineering for Integrated Nanophotonics

by Olivier Vanbésien & Emmanuel Centeno

This book shows how dispersion engineering in two dimensional dielectric photonic crystals can provide new effects for the precise control of light propagation for integrated nanophotonics.

Dispersion engineering...

Laser Spectroscopy for Sensing: Fundamentals, Techniques and Applications

by Matthieu Baudelet

Laser spectroscopy is a valuable tool for sensing and chemical analysis. Developments in lasers, detectors and mathematical analytical tools have led to improvements in the sensitivity and selectivity of spectroscopic...

Principles of Electron Optics: Wave Optics

by Peter W. Hawkes & E. Kasper

The three volumes in the PRINCIPLES OF ELECTRON OPTICS Series constitute the first comprehensive treatment of electron optics in over forty years. While Volumes 1 and 2 are devoted to geometrical optics, Volume...

GLASSY DISORDERED SYSTEMS: GLASS FORMATION AND UNIVERSAL ANOMALOUS LOW-ENERGY PROPERTIES (SOFT MODES): Glass Formation and Universal Anomalous Low-Ene

by MICHAEL I KLINGER

The present book describes the fundamental features of glassy disordered systems at high temperatures (close to the liquid-to-glass transition) and for the first time in a book, the universal anomalous properties...

Advances in Laser Materials Processing: Technology, Research and Application

by J. R. Lawrence, J Pou & D K Y Low

Because of its capacity for continuous development and flexibility of use, the laser has become a mainstream manufacturing tool in many industrial sectors. This timely book relays the state-of-the-art in laser...

Subsea Optics and Imaging

by J. E. Watson & O Zielinski

The use of optical methodology, instrumentation and photonics devices for imaging, vision and optical sensing is of increasing importance in understanding our marine environment. Subsea optics can make an important...

Coherent Laser Beam Combining

by Arnaud Brignon

Laser beam combining techniques allow increasing the power of lasers far beyond what it is possible to obtain from a single conventional laser.One step further, coherent beam combining (CBC) also helps to maintain...

Handbook of Optics, Third Edition Volume V: Atmospheric Optics, Modulators, Fiber Optics, X-Ray and Neutron Optics

by Michael Bass, Casimer DeCusatis & Jay Enoch

The most comprehensive and up-to-date optics resource available

Prepared under the auspices of the Optical Society of America, the five carefully architected and cross-referenced volumes of the Handbook of Optics,...