Optical Components and Optics Reference Materials

Description: PREFACE Design and fabrication of vertical cavity surface emitting lasers (VCSELs) requires an iterative process, which is extremely expensive and time-consuming. The use of computer-aided design ...

Description: Applied Quantum Mechanics, Second Edition Using real-world engineering examples to engage the reader, the author of this detailed text makes quantum mechanics accessible and relevant to the ...

Description: Architectural Engineering Design: Mechanical Systems With numerous illustrations and sizing tables that summarize vital data, this book provides essential criteria for designing plumbing, electric, ...

Description: Advanced Global Illumination, Second Edition Providing a fundamental understanding of global illumination algorithms, this book discusses a broad class of algorithms for realistic image synthesis and ...

Description: Advanced Mechanics of Materials Written for undergraduate or postgraduate students in mechanical, civil and aeronautical engineering programs, this text is concerned with the development of ...

Description: Mechanics and Mathematics of Crystals A unique and comprehensive collection of pioneering contributions to the mechanics of crystals, this book presents a splendid corpus of research papers that ...

Description: Photonic Glasses Introducing the fundamental mechanism of photonic glasses, this book puts emphasis on new developments in the structure, spectroscopy and physics of new glassy materials for ...

Description: The Principles of Semiconductor Laser Diodes and Amplifiers: Analysis and Transmission Line Laser Modeling Focusing on the principle applications of SLAs, this book illustrates the growing importance ...

Description: Airy Functions And Applications To Physics Containing examples that succinctly illustrate the use of Airy functions in classical and quantum physics, this comprehensive text is devoted to the ...

Description: Classical And Quantum Dynamics of the Multispherical Nanostructures Presented from a skill-oriented point of view, this text provides calculation details of important properties of multilayered ...

Description: High-Speed Optical Transceivers: Integrated Circuits Designs And Optical Devices Techniques Exploring the unique advantages and large inherent transmission capacity of optical fiber communication ...

Description: Liquid Crystals: Frontiers In Biomedical Applications Providing a review of the interdisciplinary research already performed, this text reviews the advances being made in displays, spectroscopy, ...

Description: Crisis Management in the Tourism Industry Illustrating the theories and actions that can be taken to better understand consumer, economic and environmental reaction to crises, this text shows ...

Description: Since the discovery of the laser in the 1960s, a great amount of research activity has led to an impressive increase of the overall performances of the sources emitting in the visible or in the ...

Description: What is Optical scanning? Let me offer a definition. Optical scanning is a systematic articulation of light to provide information transfer. Then, what is information? Consider that it means simply ...

Description: Fundamentals of Solid State Engineering, 2nd Edition Combining concepts from physics, chemistry, electrical engineering, materials science and mechanical engineering, this book introduces the basic ...

Description: Introduction to Optics Including the tools and methods currently used by researchers and engineers, this book covers the essential concepts of comprehension and reports the great progress of the ...

Description: Distributed Feedback Semiconductor Lasers This text covers the materials, operation and design strategies of DFB lasers. It provides detailed accounts of large-signal time-domain numerical modeling ...

Description: Fiber Optic Reference Guide: A Practical Guide to Communications Technology, Third Edition This guide is an ideal primer for newcomers to the fiber optics industry as well as a useful reference guide ...

Description: Fundamentals of Optical Waveguides, Second Edition An essential resource for any researcher, professional or student involved in optics and communications engineering, this clear, concise text offers ...

Description: Radar Imaging and Holography Focusing on holography and tomography for quasimonochromatic and broadband signals, this book provides a detailed coverage of the basic physical methods, inverse problems ...

Description: Recent Advances in Gossamer Spacecraft Focusing on the advances in structures, materials, testing, and systems engineering, this book offers accurate and up-to-date information that has been ...

Description: Solitons in Optical Fibers: Fundamentals and Applications Covering the soliton from both a theoretical and practical side, this indispensable reference contains all the industry professional or ...

Description: Specialty Optical Fibers Handbook Including essential facts and details at the beginning of each chapter, this book aims to describe and explain the design, fabrication, operating characteristics, ...

Description: Theory of Beam Columns: Space Behavior and Design, Volume 2 With design procedure summaries as well as several examples, this book presents principles and methods of analysis for beam-columns in ...

Description: Preface The key objectives in telecommunications—wired, wireless, or optical—are safe and cost-effective transportation and prompt delivery of the client’s undamaged data. How this ...

Description: Preface The term lightwave technology was coined as a natural extension of microwave technology and refers to the developments based on the use of light in place of microwaves. The beginnings of ...

Description: PREFACE DWDM, dense wavelength division multiplexing, is a new technology that, with the help of photonic components, "bootstraps" many individually modulated optical wavelengths in a single ...

Description: Preface This book grew out of a series of courses that I developed and taught over many years in the areas of lasers, optoelectronics, and photonics. Although these courses have been taught in the ...

Description: Preface Diffraction and imaging are central topics in many modern and scientific fields. Fourier analysis and sythesis techniques are a unifying theme throughout this subject matter. For example, many ...

Description: The rationale for this handbook is to make adaptive optics technology for vision science and ophthalmology as broadly accessible as possible. While the scientific literature chronicles the dramatic ...

Description: Preface Although the widespread use of personal computers is often cited as one of the factors contributing to the crisis of human relations manifested by estrangement and lack of interpersonal ...

Description: Preface Since the publication of the second edition of this book, many important advances have taken place in the field of optical testing. On one hand, the requirements for faster and more precise ...

Description: Preface Liquid crystal science and applications now permeate almost all segments of the society—from large industrial displays to individual homes and offices. Nondisplay applications in ...

Description: The dramatic reduction in transmission loss of optical fibers coupled with very important developments in the area of light sources and detectors have resulted in phenomenal growth of the fiber optic ...

Description: "For Credible Lasers, See Inside." THE LASER IS LESS THAN three years younger than the space age. Just days after the Soviet Union launched Sputnik I on October 4, 1957, Charles Townes and Gordon ...

Description: Traffic growth in the backbone of today’s networks has certainly slowed, but most analysts still estimate that the traffic volume of the Internet is roughly doubling every year. Every day, more ...