Books in Optics

Introduction to Fiber-Optic Communications

2nd Edition
September 1, 2025
Rongqing Hui
English
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Introduction to Fiber-Optic Communications, Second Edition provides students with a comprehensive understanding of modern optical fiber communication and its applications. The book strikes a balanced approach between theory and practice, avoiding excessive mathematics and derivations. Unlike other textbooks, it covers recent technologies and developments, such as electro-optic modulators, coherent optical systems, and silicon integrated photonic circuits. Practical worked examples and exercises help solidify understanding, and coverage ensures that students have a broad and deep knowledge base, making them ready to tackle modern challenges in optical and communications engineering.In addition to foundational principles, the book covers optical transmission system design, advanced modulation formats, high-speed DSP, and important application areas like passive optical networks, datacenters, and optical interconnections.

Progress in Optics

1st Edition
Volume 67
April 1, 2022
Taco Visser
English
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Progress in Optics, Volume 67, highlights new advances, with this updated volume presenting interesting chapters on a variety of timely topics in the field. Each chapter is written by an international board of authors. The book contains five reviews of the latest developments in optics.

Applications of Nonlinear Fiber Optics

3rd Edition
August 11, 2020
Govind P. Agrawal
English
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Applications of Nonlinear Fiber Optics, Third Edition presents sound coverage of the fundamentals of lightwave technology, along with material on pulse compression techniques and rare-earth-doped fiber amplifiers and lasers. The book's chapters include information on fiber-optic communication systems and the ultrafast signal processing techniques that make use of nonlinear phenomena in optical fibers. This book is an ideal reference for R&D engineers working on developing next generation optical components, scientists involved with research on fiber amplifiers and lasers, graduate students, and researchers working in the fields of optical communications and quantum information.

Optical Holography

1st Edition
October 23, 2019
Pierre-Alexandre Blanche
English
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Optical Holography: Materials, Theory and Applications provides researchers the fundamentals of holography through diffraction optics and an overview of the most relevant materials and applications, ranging from computer holograms to holographic data storage. Dr. Pierre Blanche leads a team of thought leaders in academia and industry in this practical reference for researchers and engineers in the field of holography. This book presents all the information readers need in order to understand how holographic techniques can be applied to a variety of applications, the benefits of those techniques, and the materials that enable these technologies. Researchers and engineers will gain comprehensive knowledge on how to select the best holographic techniques for their needs.

Nonlinear Fiber Optics

6th Edition
August 14, 2019
Govind P. Agrawal
English
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Nonlinear Fiber Optics, Sixth Edition, provides an up-to-date accounting of the nonlinear phenomena occurring inside optical fibers in telecommunications infrastructure and in the medical field. This new edition includes a general update to reflect the most recent research, extensive updates to chapter 13 on Supercontinuum Generation that reflect the use of chalcogenide fibers that extend Supercontinuum into the mid-infrared region, and a new chapter devoted to the nonlinear optics of multimode and multicore fibers. This book is ideal for researchers and graduate students in photonics, optical engineering and communication engineering.

Optical Wireless Communications for Broadband Global Internet Connectivity

1st Edition
October 19, 2018
Arun K. Majumdar
English
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Optical Wireless Communications for Broadband Global Internet Connectivity: Fundamental and Potential Applications provides a comprehensive overview for readers who require information about the fundamental science behind optical wireless communications, as well as up-to-date advanced knowledge of the state-of-the-art technologies available today. The book is a useful resource for scientists, researchers, engineers and students interested in understanding optical, wireless communication systems for global channels. Readers will find beneficial knowledge on how related technologies of optical wireless communications can be integrated into achieving worldwide Internet connectivity.

Principles of Electron Optics, Volume 2

2nd Edition
December 13, 2017
Peter W. Hawkes + 1 more
English
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Principles of Electron Optics: Applied Geometrical Optics, Second Edition gives detailed information about the many optical elements that use the theory presented in Volume 1: electrostatic and magnetic lenses, quadrupoles, cathode-lens-based instruments including the new ultrafast microscopes, low-energy-electron microscopes and photoemission electron microscopes and the mirrors found in their systems, Wien filters and deflectors. The chapter on aberration correction is largely new. The long section on electron guns describes recent theories and covers multi-column systems and carbon nanotube emitters. Monochromators are included in the section on curved-axis systems. The lists of references include many articles that will enable the reader to go deeper into the subjects discussed in the text. The book is intended for postgraduate students and teachers in physics and electron optics, as well as researchers and scientists in academia and industry working in the field of electron optics, electron and ion microscopy and nanolithography.

Solid State Physics

1st Edition
Volume 68
November 18, 2017
Robert L. Stamps + 1 more
English
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Solid State Physics, Volume 68 provides the latest information on a branch of physics that is primarily devoted to the study of matter in its solid phase, especially at the atomic level. Chapters in this updated volume include new research in the use of phonon-polaritons in polar materials to do plasmonic like studies, but without the plasmons, along with a section on Polar oxide interfaces. This prestigious serial presents timely and state-of-the-art reviews pertaining to all aspects of solid state physics.

Progress in Optics

1st Edition
Volume 62
March 27, 2017
Taco Visser
English
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Progress in Optics, Volume 62, an ongoing series, contains more than 300 review articles by distinguished research workers that have become permanent records for many important developments. In this updated volume, users will find valuable updates on topics such as optical testing, the modern aspects of intensity interferometry with classical light, the generation of partially coherent beams, optical models and symmetries, and more. This book's contributions have become standard references in scientific articles, providing the state-of-the-art to researchers and practitioners who work in the field of optics.

Basic Optics

1st Edition
August 23, 2016
Avijit Lahiri
English
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Basic Optics: Principles and Concepts addresses in great detail the basic principles of the science of optics, and their related concepts. The book provides a lucid and coherent presentation of an extensive range of concepts from the field of optics, which is of central relevance to several broad areas of science, including physics, chemistry, and biology. With its extensive range of discourse, the book’s content arms scientists and students with knowledge of the essential concepts of classical and modern optics. It can be used as a reference book and also as a supplementary text by students at college and university levels and will, at the same time, be of considerable use to researchers and teachers. The book is composed of nine chapters and includes a great deal of material not covered in many of the more well-known textbooks on the subject. The science of optics has undergone major changes in the last fifty years because of developments in the areas of the optics of metamaterials, Fourier optics, statistical optics, quantum optics, and nonlinear optics, all of which find their place in this book, with a clear presentation of their basic principles. Even the more traditional areas of ray optics and wave optics are elaborated within the framework of electromagnetic theory, at a level more fundamental than what one finds in many of the currently available textbooks. Thus, the eikonal approximation leading to ray optics, the Lagrangian and Hamiltonian formulations of ray optics, the quantum theoretic interpretation of interference, the vector and dyadic diffraction theories, the geometrical theory of diffraction, and similar other topics of basic relevance are presented in clear terms. The presentation is lucid and elegant, capturing the essential magic and charm of physics. All this taken together makes the book a unique text, of major contemporary relevance, in the field of optics. Avijit Lahiri is a well-known researcher, teacher, and author, with publications in several areas of physics, and with a broad range of current interests, including physics and the philosophy of science.

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Books in Optics

Introduction to Fiber-Optic Communications

Progress in Optics

Applications of Nonlinear Fiber Optics

Optical Holography

Nonlinear Fiber Optics

Optical Wireless Communications for Broadband Global Internet Connectivity

Principles of Electron Optics, Volume 2

Solid State Physics

Progress in Optics

Basic Optics