This new book presents an introduction to the essential elements of optics and photonics. Optics as a subject, has evolved dramatically in recent years, and is now an essential part of many science and engineering disciplines as well as being commonly found throughout everyday life.
Optics and photonics offer new and vibrant approaches to meeting the challenges of the 21st century concerning energy conservation, education, agriculture, personal health and the environment.
This volume is based on the works presented at the conference ?Modern Problems in Optics and Photonics-2009?, held in Yerevan Armenia.
This book gives a broad and authoritative overview of research currently underway in the fields of optical science and engineering throughout the world.
6. Photonics. of. Nanostructured. Biomineral. Objects. and. Their. Biomimetic. Analogues ... The systems of optical transmission and information processing developed in the 20th century not only allowed us to connect distant corners of ...
This book covers key theoretical and practical aspects of optics, photonics and lasers.
A comprehensive presentation of the major topics in nonlinear optics and photonics, including the latest progress and cutting-edge achievements, with equal emphasis on principles, experiments, techniques, and applications.
Assembling an international team of experts, this book reports on the progress in the rapidly growing field of monolithic micro- and nanoresonators. The book opens with a chapter on photonic crystal-based resonators (nanocavities).
... Faculty of Sciences, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal; CAP - Centre for Applied Photonics, INESCTEC, Porto, Portugal P. V. S. Marques Department of Physics and Astronomy, Faculty of Sciences, University of Porto, Porto, ...
Optics and photonics technologies are ubiquitous: they are responsible for the displays on smart phones and computing devices, optical fiber that carries the information in the internet, advanced precision manufacturing, enhanced defense ...
This book presents a comprehensive introduction to the Generalized Phase Contrast (GPC) method including an overview of the range of current and potential applications of GPC in wavefront sensing and phase imaging, structured laser ...