Light (optics) books

This up-to-date work presents a modern vision of magnetism and superconductivity covering both microscopic and phenomenological...  Read More >>

Bragg backscattering from perfect crystals is a tool for creating, manipulating, and analysing x-rays with highest...  Read More >>

Interference coatings are an essential part of modern optics. Topics include design, materials, film growth, deposition...  Read More >>

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Much of dispersion control is realized in optical communications systems with discrete devices – the so-called dispersion...  Read More >>

This book offers a systematic and comprehensive exposition of the quantum stochastic methods that have been developed...  Read More >>

After having examined the available instrumentation and the methods for tip and surface preparations, the monograph...  Read More >>

Photonic-based A/D conversion has received and continues to receive considerable attention as an alternative approach...  Read More >>

The concept of squeezing is intimately related to the idea of vacuum fluctu­ ations, once thought to place an absolute...  Read More >>

The unique properties of diamond are responsible for its pre-eminence as a gemstone, and give it a glamour and attraction...  Read More >>

Since the advent of the laser about 40 years ago, the fields of laser physics and quantum optics have evolved into...  Read More >>

Random inhomogeneous media may possess unique physical properties that are significantly enhanced and may attain...  Read More >>

The present book covers the transport properties of superconductor/two dimensional electron gas Josephson junctions....  Read More >>

The alkali halide crystals have always been at the centre stage of solid-state physics. Providing in a single volume...  Read More >>

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Authored by a team of acknowledged experts, this book presents a multidisciplinary view of the state of the art...  Read More >>

Shuji Nakamura's development of a blue semiconductor laser on the basis of GaN opens the way for a host of new applications...  Read More >>

The unique properties and applications of transition metal compounds have long fascinated both physicists and chemists....  Read More >>

Atomic Multielectron Processes is the first comprehensive collection of the data (mostly cross sections and methods)...  Read More >>

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The aim of this book is to exploit the advantages of holographic technology, namely the high storage capacity and...  Read More >>

Low-dimensional semiconductors have become a vital part of today's semiconductor physics, and excitons in these...  Read More >>

Achieving efficient solar energy conversion at both large scale and low cost is among the most important technological...  Read More >>

There is no dearth of books on telescope optics and, indeed, optics is clearly a keyelementinthedesignandconstructionoftelescopes.Butitisbynomeans...  Read More >>

Nanoscale miniaturization and femtosecond laser-pulse spectroscopy require a quantum mechanical description of the...  Read More >>