"Version: 202110"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Basics of photoelasticity and photoplasticity -- 1.1. Introduction -- 1.2. Birefringence and its use in photoelasticity -- 1.3. Retardation plates -- 1.4. Stress-optic law -- 1.5. Optical arrangements and fringe fields in conventional photoelasticity -- 1.6. Jones calculus -- 1.7. Analysis of plane polariscope by Jones c…
"Version: 202109"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Interaction of gammas with matter -- 1.1. Introduction -- 1.2. Gamma-ray -- 1.3. Principles of operation of gamma-ray detectors -- 1.4. Material requirements for scintillators -- 1.5. Detailed scintillation mechanism2. Performance of gamma radiation detectors materials -- 2.1. The performance parameters -- 2.2. Character…
"Version: 20210207"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. High energy, high average power ytterbium lasers / Jorge J. Rocca, Yong Wang, Han Chi, Cory Baumgarten, Brendan A. Reagan, Kristian Dehne and Carmen S. Menoni -- 2. High-performance, thulium-doped, ultrafast fiber lasers / Christian Gaida, Martin Gebhardt, Cesar Jauregui and Jens Limpert -- 3. Transition metal doped zi…
"Version: 202112"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Single-photon avalanche diodes (SPADs) -- 1.1. Basics and properties -- 1.2. Discrete dedicated SPADs -- 1.3. SPADs integrated into CMOS and BiCMOS -- 1.4. A model for photon detection probability2. Photon-counting modules -- 2.1. Quenching -- 2.2. PCMs using discrete circuits -- 2.3. PCMs using integrated circuits3. Adv…
"Version: 202109"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Introduction to optical lithography -- 1.1. Principle of optical lithography -- 1.2. Evolution and history -- 1.3. Interrelation with IC manufacturing -- 1.4. The next-generation optical lithography : extreme ultraviolet (EUV) lithography2. Multilayer mirrors in extreme ultraviolet lithography -- 2.1. Composition and fab…
"Version: 202201"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Bra ket algebra of Dirac -- 1.1. The bra and ket notation of Dirac -- 1.2. Hermitian conjugation -- 1.3. Definition of inner product (also called overlap) -- 1.4. Definition of outer product -- 1.5. Eigenvalue equation -- 1.6. Linear vector space -- 1.7. Linear independence -- 1.8. Linear dependence -- 1.9. Span (expansi…
"Version: 20171101"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references (pages 24-25).Biological imaging at the cellular level, particularly in vivo, is a key enabling tool for understanding biological processes, disease diagnosis and drug development. Unfortunately, specimens under observation often introduce optical aberrations that degrade the imaging resolution, particularly when imaging …
"Version: 20201201"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Fundamentals -- 1.1. Light waves and light rays -- 1.2. Refraction -- 1.3. Dispersion -- 1.4. Reflection -- 1.5. Absorption and transmission -- 1.6. Interference -- 1.7. Diffraction and optical resolution -- 1.8. Fundamentals--bottom line2. Introduction to imaging models -- 2.1. The paraxial or Gaussian imaging model -…
"Version: 20200901"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references and index.4. Raw conversion -- 4.1. Reference colour spaces -- 4.2. Illumination -- 4.3. Camera raw space -- 4.4. Camera colour characterisation -- 4.5. Output-referred colour spaces -- 4.6. White balance -- 4.7. Strategy 1: transformation matrices + CAT -- 4.8. Strategy 2: raw channel multipliers + rotation matrix -- 4.9…
"Version: 20200901"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Introduction -- 1.1. What is quantum optics -- 1.2. Open quantum systems -- 1.3. This book2. Classical electromagnetism and linear optics -- 2.1. Maxwell equations and electromagnetic waves -- 2.2. Wave equation for fields in a medium -- 2.3. Slowly varying envelope approximation -- 2.4. Lorentz oscillator model of the…