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Adaptive Approximation Based Control - Preface
From: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.Description: During the last few years there have been significant developments in the control of highly uncertain, nonlinear dynamical systems. For systems with parametric uncertainty, adaptive nonlinear control ...
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Adaptive Optics for Vision Science: Principles, Practices, Design, and Applications - Forward
From: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.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 ...
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Analysis and Design of Vertical Cavity Surface Emitting Lasers - Preface
From: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.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 ...
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Code Design for Dependable Systems - Preface
From: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.Description: Error control coding theory has been studied for over half a century, and it is still going stronger than ever. The most recent examples are the turbo codes and the low-density parity check codes ...
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Design and Development of Medical Electronic Instrumentation
From: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.Description: PREFACE The medical devices industry is booming. Growth in the industry has not stopped despite globally fluctuating economies. The main reason for this success is probably the self-sustaining nature ...
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Diffraction, Fourier Optics and Imaging - Preface
From: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.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 ...
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Essentials of Mechatronics - Preface
From: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.Description: Preface There are many definitions of mechatronics, but most involve the concept of blending mechanisms, electronics, sensors, and control strategies into a design, knitted together with software. ...
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Fatal Exit - Acknowledgments
From: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.Description: One of the great pleasures of finishing a book is that it gives the author the opportunity to thank those who helped make the project a product. I could not have generated the information, collected ...
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Feedback Control of Computing Systems - Preface
From: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.Description: This book is intended primarily for practitioners engaged in the analysis and design of computing systems. Analysts and designers are extremely interested in the performance character- istics of ...
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Introduction
From: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.Description: INTRODUCTION This book discusses mathematical approaches to the best possible way of estimating the state of a general system. Although the book is firmly grounded in mathematical theory, it should ...
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Liquid Crystals - Preface
From: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.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 ...
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Next Generation SONET/SDH
From: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.Description: PREFACE In four previous books, we introduced the SONET and SDH communications protocol technologies and Wavelength Division Multiplexing (WDM) as the new technology of this millennium. SONET has ...
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Optical Bit Error Rate - Preface
From: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.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 ...
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Optical Networking Best Practices Handbook
From: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.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 ...
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Optical Shop Testing
From: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.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 ...
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Optical Switching - Preface
From: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.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 ...
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Phase Conjugate Laser Optics - Preface
From: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.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 ...
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Preface
From: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.Description: Preface In this book, methods of adaptive signal processing are borrowed from the field of digital signal processing to solve problems in dynamic systems control. Adaptive filters, whose design ...
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Preface
From: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.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 ...
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Preface
From: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.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 ...
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Preface
From: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.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 ...
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Preface
From: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.Description: Preface This book contains significant results from our research on industrial automation software conducted in previous years. Industrial automation software can be used in a wide variety of ...
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Preface
From: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.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 ...
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Preface
From: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.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 ...
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Preface
From: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.Description: Biomedical optics is a rapidly growing area of research. Although many universities have begun to offer courses on the topic, a textbook containing examples and homework problems has not been ...
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PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION
From: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.Description: This book is intended for people who need to combine global navigation satellite systems (GNSSs), inertial navigation systems (INSs), and Kalman filters. Our objective is to give our readers a working ...
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Real Time Systems Design And Analysis: Preface
From: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.Description: This book is an introduction to real-time systems. It is intended not as a cookbook, but, rather, as a stimulus for thinking about hardware and software in a different way. It is necessarily broader ...
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Software Enabled Control
From: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.Description: This edited volume is the product of a research initiative undertaken by the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) to exploit recent ...
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Unified Optical Scanning Technology - Preface
From: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.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 ...