Optics & optoelectronics

Adaptive Optics Engineering Handbook..

Despite a number of books on biophotonics imaging for medical diagnostics and therapy, the field still lacks a comprehensive imaging book that describes state-of-the-art biophotonics imaging approaches intensively developed in recent years. Addressing this shortfall, Advanced Biophotonics presents c..

Distributed optical fiber sensors (DOFS) are capable of revealing information about temperature, strain, vibration, pressure, or magnetic field from anywhere along the fiber. This book explains their physical principles, unique benefits, broad categories, implementation aspects, and performance crit..

Distributed optical fiber sensors (DOFS) are capable of revealing information about temperature, strain, vibration, pressure, or magnetic field from anywhere along the fiber. This book explains their physical principles, unique benefits, broad categories, implementation aspects, and performance crit..

This proceeding is a collection of selected papers presented at Symposium O of Compound Semiconductor Photonics in the International Conference on Materials for Advanced Technology (ICMAT), which was held in Singapore from 28 June to 3 July 2009. The symposium covers a wide range of topics from fund..

This introductory text is a reader-friendly treatment of geometrical and physical optics emphasizing problems and solved examples with detailed analysis and helpful commentary. The book covers ray tracing to the wave nature of light, and introduces Maxwell’s equations in an organic fashion...

Nanophotonics deals with the diffraction of light from objects with nanoscale features. This book addresses cutting-edge problems in the field of nanophotonics as well as a wide variety of advanced methods for the rigorous simulation of light diffraction by nanophotonics devices. It also treats issu..

Diffuse optical tomography (DOT) is an imaging method based on near infrared optical technologies and model-based inverse computations. It can provide spatial distributions of intrinsic tissue optical properties or molecular contrast agents through model-based reconstruction algorithms using NIR mea..

Diffuse optical tomography (DOT) is an imaging method based on near infrared optical technologies and model-based inverse computations. It can provide spatial distributions of intrinsic tissue optical properties or molecular contrast agents through model-based reconstruction algorithms using NIR mea..

The book examines analytic solutions of the scattering problems of types: Scattering by single particle and tenuous system of uncorrelated scatterers in diverse backgrounds...

This must-have book provides a succinct introduction to the systemization, noise sources, and signal processes of image sensor technology, discussing image information and its four factors: space, light intensity, wavelength, and time. Insightfully illustrated, the text explains how image sensors co..

Describing a range of photonic principles and techniques, this book gives insight into the underlying physical processes. It presents a detailed treatment of lasers, waveguides, modulators, detectors, non-linear optics and optical signal processing. It also includes sections on photonic crystal fibr..