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LEOMA and the US Laser Industry: The Good and Bad Moves for Trade Associations in Emerging High-Tech Industries

by C. Breck Hitz

This book describes the approaches, both successful and not, to the political and infrastructure issues addressed by the trade association. The intent is to provide guidance to those confronting similar issues,...

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....

The Optical Communications Reference

by Casimer DeCusatis & Ivan Kaminow

Extracting key information from Academic Press's range of prestigious titles in optical communications, this reference gives the R&D optical fiber communications engineer a quick and easy-to-grasp understanding...

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...

Graphene Optoelectronics: Synthesis, Characterization, Properties, and Applications

by Abdul Rashid bin M. Yusoff

This first book on emerging applications for this innovative material gives an up-to-date account of the many opportunities graphene offers high-end optoelectronics.

The text focuses on potential as well as already...

Fiber Optic Installer's Field Manual, Second Edition

by Bob Chomycz

A fully updated fiber optic cable installation guide

Extensively revised to cover the latest technologies and equipment, this portable tool shows you how to plan, install, and maintain a robust fiber optic network...

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

From the fundamentals through techniques and sensing applications, this is the definitive guide to laser spectroscopy for a broad range of scientists and engineers

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...

Optical Detection of Cancer

by ARLEN D MEYERS

Significant progress in engineering has allowed the production of devices that can optically detect, differentiate and treat surface or near-surface cancers. The ability to differentiate cancerous from non-cancerous...