Optoelectronics

This book provides a comprehensive collection of wholefield optical measurement techniques for engineering applications. After supplying the necessary background, it covers both the theory and practice of the four wholefield techniques. The author supplies simple and clear explanations about various..

This volume considers optical parametric generation and amplification (OPG/OPA), as a means for producing a tunable optical parametric device. It reviews the OPA/OPG systems using various crystals pumped by lasers at various frequencies with ranging pulse duration...

Revised to reflect technological advances and new applications, Practical Holography, Third Edition is a classic, comprehensive text suitable for anyone involved in holography, from the interested amateur to the practicing research scientist. At its most basic level, the book introduces the principl..

Prism and Lens Making..

Prism and Lens Making: A Textbook for Optical Glassworkers, Second Edition is a unique compendium of the art and science of the optical working of glass for the production of mirrors, lenses, and prisms. Incorporating minor corrections and a foreword by Professor Walter Welford FRS, this reissue of ..

Written by an eminent author, Pulsars as Astrophysical Laboratories for Nuclear and Particle Physics discusses how pulsars are ideal probes for various physical studies, focusing on the interface between nuclear physics, particle physics, and Einstein's theory of relativity. It presents a reliable a..

Quantum Optomechanics discusses modern developments in this novel field from experimental and theoretical standpoints. The authors share their insight on a range of important topics, including optomechanical cooling and entanglement; quantum limits on measurement precision and how to overcome them v..

This book provides pedagogical coverage of selected areas of new and pertinent physics of low-dimensional structures and presents some optoelectronic devices presently under development. Coverage includes material and band structure issues and the physics of ultrafast, nonlinear, coherent, intersubb..

Offers coverage of selected areas of new and pertinent physics of low-dimensional structures and presents some optoelectronic devices presently under development. This book emphasizes various devices, including quantum wells, visible, quantum cascade, and mode-locked lasers; microcavity LEDs and VCS..

Covering both theoretical design principles and experimental realizations of systems, Solid-State Lasers and Applications provides an in-depth, up-to-date account of major advances in the field. The beginning chapters explore recent results in the development and applications of new solid-state gain..

Super-radiance: Multiatomic Coherent Emission provides a comprehensive, self-contained account of the theory and experiments of the quantum optic phenomenon of superradiance. Contributed by highly regarded researchers in the field, the book first presents the theory of superradiance at a level suita..

Superconductivity of Metals and Cuprates covers the basic physics of superconductivity, both the theoretical and experimental aspects. The book concentrates on important facts and ideas, including Ginzburg-Landau equations, boundary energy, Green's function methods, and spectroscopy. Avoiding length..