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Books in Optics

  • Progress in Optics

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 29
    • English
    This volume presents five authoritative review articles on optics and related subjects. The first article deals with important components of many opto-electronic systems, namely waveguide diffraction gratings. It presents an account of the use of waveguide gratings as well as a quantitative review of the properties of optical waveguides. The second article discusses the phenomenon of enhanced backscattering, which has attracted a good deal of attention in recent years. It contains an account of research carried out mainly but not exclusively in the U.S.S.R.. The generation and propagation of ultrashort optical pulses as well as some linear and non-linear effects which arise when such pulses propagate in free space or in material media, is dealt with in the next article. It also includes accounts of the use of ultrashort pulses in the fields of optical communications and data processing. The fourth article presents a brief review of several interferometric methods for overcoming the degradation of image quality caused by atmospheric fluctuations, including the so-called speckle masking method, speckle spectroscopy methods and optical long baseline interferometry with arrays of large telescopes. The concluding article deals with non-linear optical properties of semiconductors and metal crystallites in dielectric matrices. A good understanding of these properties is required when choosing the most appropriate materials for manufacturing devices which utilize several non-linear optical effects. Such devices would be particularly useful in connection with processing and transmission of information and their performance might eventually surpass those of present-day electronics.

  • Materials for Optoelectronic Devices, OEICs and Photonics

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 19
    • H. Schlötterer + 3 more
    • English
    The aim of the contributions in this volume is to give a current overview on the basic properties and applications of semiconductor and nonlinear optical materials for optoelectronics and integrated optics. They provide a cross-linkage between different materials (III-V, II-VI, Si-Ge, glasses, etc.), various sample dimensions (from bulk crystals to quantum dots), and a range of techniques for growth (LPE to MOMBE) and for processing (from surface passivation to ion beams). Major growth techniques and materials are discussed, including the sophisticated technologies required to exploit the exciting properties of low dimensional semiconductors. These proceedings will prove an invaluable guide to the current state of optoelectronic and nonlinear optical materials development, as well as indicating trends and also future markets for optoelectronic devices.

  • Progress in Optics

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 28
    • English
    Volume XXVIII contains five review articles covering the following areas - digital holography, a field that has found useful applications in connection with data processing and data storage, for 3-d displays and in providing new types of optical components, for example, holographic gratings; - basic investigations concerned with new technologies that may lead to better optical communication systems and improved limits of measurement than are expected from the traditional interpretation of quantum-mechanical measurement theory; - a review of our current understanding of quantum coherence properties of stimulated Raman scattering; - an account of techniques developed in recent years in the field of interferometry, for improvements of high precision measurements; - the fascinating phenomenon of quantum jumps, which were introduced in the theory of atomic spectra by Niels Bohr in 1913.

  • Progress in Optics

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 27
    • English
    Progress in Optics is a well-established series of volumes of review articles dealing with theoretical and applied optics and related subjects. Widely acclaimed by numerous reviewers as representing an authoritative and up-to-date source of information in all branches of optics, the series continues to fulfil a genuine need within the scientific community. Articles are contributed by leading scientists (including two Nobel Prize winners) chosen by the Editor, with the advice of an international panel of experts constituting the Editorial Advisory Board. Many of the articles appearing in these volumes have since been established as basic references in their respective fields.

  • Progress in Optics

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 26
    • English

  • Progress in Optics

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 25
    • English
    This volume is a jubilee issue and contains some specially designed computer generated holograms for this occasion, together with a description of how to obtain the holographic effect.

  • Progress in Optics

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 24
    • English
    Progress in Optics is a well-established series of volumes of review articles dealing with theoretical and applied optics and related subjects. Widely acclaimed by numerous reviewers as representing an authoritative and up-to-date source of information in all branches of optics, the series continues to fulfil a genuine need within the scientific community. Articles are contributed by leading scientists (including two Nobel Prize winners) chosen by the Editor, with the advice of an international panel of experts constituting the Editorial Advisory Board. Many of the articles appearing in these volumes have since been established as basic references in their respective fields.

  • Progress in Optics

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 23
    • English
    Progress in Optics is a well-established series of volumes of review articles dealing with theoretical and applied optics and related subjects. Widely acclaimed by numerous reviewers as representing an authoritative and up-to-date source of information in all branches of optics, the series continues to fulfil a genuine need within the scientific community. Articles are contributed by leading scientists (including two Nobel Prize winners) chosen by the Editor, with the advice of an international panel of experts constituting the Editorial Advisory Board. Many of the articles appearing in these volumes have since been established as basic references in their respective fields.

  • Progress in Optics

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 22
    • English

  • Progress in Optics

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 21
    • English

  • Progress in Optics

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 20
    • English

  • Progress in Optics

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 19
    • English

  • Progress in Optics

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 17
    • English

  • Progress in Optics

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 18
    • English

  • Lens Design Fundamentals

    • 1st Edition
    • Rudolf Kingslake
    • English
    A large part of this book is devoted to a study of possible design procedures for various types of lens or mirror systems, with fully worked examples of each. The reader is urged to follow the logic of these examples and be sure that he understands what is happening, noticing particularly how each available degree of freedom is used to control one aberration. Not every type of lens has been considered, of course, but the design techniques illustrated here can readily be applied to the design of other more complex systems. It is assumed that the reader has access to a small computer to help with the ray tracing, otherwise he may find the computations so time-consuming that he is liable to lose track of what he is trying to accomplish.

  • Progress in Optics

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 16
    • English

  • Progress in Optics

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 15
    • English

  • Progress in Optics

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 9
    • English

  • Progress in Optics

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 6
    • English

  • Progress in Optics

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 4
    • English

  • Progress in Optics

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 3
    • English

  • Progress in Optics

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 2
    • English