"Version: 20221201"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Foundations of optical interferometry -- 1.1. Light waves -- 1.2. Types of interferometers -- 1.3. Interference of light waves -- 1.4. Multiple wave interference -- 1.5. White-light interferometry -- 1.6. Holographic interferometry2. Coherence -- 2.1. Introduction : the background -- 2.2. Basic principles of coherence …
"Version: 20200401"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.part I. A historical, mathematical and optical introduction. 1. A brief history of stigmatic lens design -- 1.1. The rise of geometrical optics -- 1.2. Optics of the ancient Greeks and Arab world -- 1.3. Snell, Descartes, Huygens, Newton and Fermat -- 1.4. 19th and 20th century -- 1.5. The computer era and the closure of …
"Version: 20251201"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Optical physics for laser materials processing -- 1.1. Electromagnetic theory of light propagation -- 1.2. Paraxial approximation -- 1.3. The eikonal equation--material polarization approach -- 1.4. The eikonal equation--Fermat's principle approach -- 1.5. Propagation of electromagnetic waves through matter. Lorentz os…
"Version: 20221201"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Introduction / Bruno Lovaglio Can?cado Trindade and Davies William de Lima Monteiro -- 2. The human eye and refractive correction / Bruno Lovaglio Can?cado Trindade, Glauber Coutinho Eliazar and Davies William de Lima Monteiro -- 3. Optical parameters and charts / Bruno Lovaglio Can?cado Trindade, Davies William de Lim…
"Version: 20171001"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.Preface -- Foreword -- 1. Introduction to risk management -- 1.1. Risk, hazard and exposure -- 1.2. Risk management -- 1.3. Sun exposure and risk -- 1.4. A risk management approach to sun protection2. The origin and beneficial effects of solar UV radiation -- 2.1. The nature of optical radiation -- 2.2. The Sun -- 2.3. Th…
"Version: 20160601"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.Preface -- 1. Introduction -- 1.1. Research into and interest in the long air gap discharge -- 1.2. Scope and objectives -- 1.3. Intended audience2. The background of air gap discharge theory -- 2.1. Introduction -- 2.2. Ionization phenomena -- 2.3. Cross section and mean free path--elastic collisions -- 2.4. Mobility, di…
"Version: 20161201"--Title page verso.EPUB and Kindle versions includes embedded videos.Includes bibliographical references.Preface -- 1. The components of lightning -- 1.1. Features of lightning plasma -- 1.2. Lightning is more than a spark -- 1.3. Conditions for leader propagation -- 1.4. Lightning leaders in nature2. Lightning leaders versus free-burning arcs -- 2.1. Similarities and differe…
"Version: 20140801"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.Preface -- Author biography -- Theory of optical propagation and diffraction -- The Helmholtz equations -- The integral theorem of Helmholtz and Kirchhoff -- The Rayleigh-Sommerfeld formulation of diffractionFourier analysis and linear systems -- Fourier transforms and Fourier analysis -- Fourier analysis in two dimension…