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In this book, the author describes the development of the experimental diffraction setup and structural analysis of non-crystalline particles from material science and biology.

This book deals with standard spectroscopic techniques which can be used to analyze semiconductor samples or devices, in both, bulk, micrometer and submicrometer scale. The book aims helping experimental physicists and engineers to choose the right analytical spectroscopic technique in order to get specific information about their specific demands.

This book describes the physics behind the optical properties of plasmonic nanostructures focusing on chiral aspects. Electromagnetic fields with strong optical chirality interact strongly with chiral molecules and, therefore, can be used for enhancing the sensitivity of chiroptical spectroscopy techniques.

The extended 3rd edition of this book covers such innovations as chaos synchronization between two lasers used for optical secure communication, fast physical number generation using chaotic semiconductor lasers and development and application of chaos chips.

This book covers the main ideas, methods, recent developments and applications of quantum-limit optical spectroscopy to quantum information, resolution spectroscopy, measurements beyond quantum limits, measurement of decoherence and entanglement.

General Theory of Light Propagation and Imaging through the Atmosphere

The present book is intended to initiate a study of the characteristics of fractal apertures in waveguides, conducting screens and cavities.To perform a unified analysis of these entirely dissimilar problems, the "generalized network formulation of the aperture problems" by Mautz and Harrington was extended to multiple-aperture geometry.

Nonlinear Super-Resolution Nano-Optics and Applications

This book covers the basics, realization and materials for high power laser systems and high power radiation interaction with matter.

Applied Photometry, Radiometry, and Measurements of Optical Losses reviews and analyzes physical concepts of radiation transfer, providing a quantitative foundation for the means of measurements of optical losses, which affect propagation and distribution of light waves in various media.

Encompassing a broad range of material from laser physics fundamentals to state-of-the-art research, to industrial applications in the rapidly growing field of quantum electronics, this book covers fundamental aspects of fiber lasers and fiber amplifiers.

This book surveys in detail the theory of electromagnetic wave scattering on single, homogeneous, but nonspherical particles. The second edition adds material on group theoretical considerations for nonspherical particles with boundary symmetries and more.

The optoacoustic method has by now an almost one-centurY-long history of appl ication in spectroscopy, but it was only with the advent of the laser that it became a convenient and effective method among the vast family of spectroscopy techniques.

Images are ubiquitous. The bottom of a water glass, too, can be made to produce an optical image, wildly distorted perhaps, but nevertheless recognizable as an optical image.

I hope that this book will be useful to both practising and prospective workers in the field, since it contains an up-to-date catalogue of measurements of the main properties of submillimetre lasers as well as an introductory review of the measurement techniques themselves.

Single-mode fibers are the most advanced means of transmitting information, since they provide extremely low attenuation and very high bandwidths. How ever, waveguiding in single-mode fibers is much more difficult to understand than waveguiding in copper lines.

Optical phase conjugation (OPC) combines in itself aesthetic and pragmatic attractiveness, a synthesis that has made OPC a subject of general attention. 150 100 50 1975 1980 At present, the physical pro ces ses underlying various OPC methods are quite understandable, and it is the physics of OPC to which our book is devoted.

This book is intended to be an introductory text for engineers and physicists who are likely to be involved in the area of optical fiber communications. The required material was partly developed in earlier courses on integrated optics and optical fiber commu nications, and partly resulted from the authors' close cooperation with in dustry.

This resource covering all theoretical aspects of modern geometrical charged-particle optics is aimed at anyone involved in the design of electron optical instruments and beam-guiding systems for charged particles.

This book reviews techniques used to characterize non-linear optical constants of chalcogenide glasses in bulk or thin films, and presents the properties of many chalcogenide systems. Also addressed are suitability of chalcogenide films in all-optical integrated circuits, fabrication of rib as well as ridge waveguides and of fiber gratings.

This book employs homogeneous coordinate notation to compute the first- and second-order derivative matrices of various optical quantities. It will serve as an important mathematical tool for automatic optical design.

Advances in continuous systems, pulsed systems, mode-locked pulses, and the amplification of short pulses are dealt with in detail. This is done by giving an extensive treatment of relevant molecular physics, gas kinetics, excitation and relaxation processes, and laser physics pertinent to CO2.