"Version: 20201201"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Introduction -- 2. Mathematical preliminaries -- 2.1. Fourier transform basics -- 2.2. Review of random processes theory -- 2.3. Simulating a random process with known spectral density -- 2.4. Complex signal representation -- 2.5. Spiral phase quadrature transform3. The angular spectrum method -- 3.1. Wave equation -- …
"Version: 20231101"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Introduction and overview -- 1.1. Historical background -- 1.2. Structure of the book2. Characterization of optical fields -- 2.1. Electromagnetic field modes in vacuum -- 2.2. Quantization of electromagnetic field modes -- 2.3. Quantized electromagnetic fields -- 2.4. Quantum distribution functions3. Atom-field intera…
"Version: 20240101"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Introduction -- 2. Discovery of quantum optics -- 2.1. Optics timeline : from corpuscles and waves to photons -- 2.2. Classical, semi-classical or quantum? -- 2.3. From radio frequency electromagnetic fields controlling quantum systems to quantum optics and back3. What is quantum in quantum optics? -- 3.1. Einstein's i…
"Version: 20200901"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Introduction -- 1.1. How does light meet with matter? -- 1.2. Collectivity that matters -- 1.3. At the boundary from quantum to classical worlds2. Light-induced dipole-dipole interactions -- 2.1. Reservoir interaction volume -- 2.2. Resonant dipole-dipole interactions in free space -- 2.3. Two-dimensional dipole-dipole…
"Version: 20220901"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Introduction -- 1.1. Motivation -- 1.2. Photons, waves and fields -- 1.3. A necessary notepart I. Basic photon states. 2. Field quantisation -- 2.1. Quantum mechanical background -- 2.2. Harmonic oscillator -- 2.3. Electromagnetic field quantisation -- 2.4. Canonical quantisation -- 2.5. Photon wavefunction -- 2.6. Qua…
"Version: 20251201"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.part I. Optical microscopy and optical crystallography. 1. Introduction to optical microscope and image formation -- 1.1. Introduction to light microscopy : the need for a microscope -- 1.2. Historical tour of light microscopy -- 1.3. Image formation in a microscope and resolution -- 1.4. Polarized light microscopypart II…
"Version: 20180401"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Optical information security systems based on a gyrator wavelet transform -- 1.1. Introduction -- 1.2. Theory -- 1.3. Applications of a gyrator wavelet transform -- 1.4. Conclusion2. Optical one-way hash function -- part A. Introduction to the one-way hash function -- A.1. One-way hash function--acquire the 'fingerprin…
"Version: 20170901"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.Preface -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Phase estimation : spatial fringe analysis -- 2.1. Background -- 2.2. Carrier fringe pattern demodulation -- 2.3. Closed fringe pattern demodulation3. Fringe denoising and phase unwrapping -- 3.1. Real sinusoidal fringe pattern denoising -- 3.2. Phase fringe pattern denoising -- 3.3. Phase…
"Version: 20181201"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references and index.1. Introduction -- 1.1. Introduction -- 1.2. Laser linewidth -- 1.3. Solid-state organic lasers -- 1.4. Organic photonics -- 1.5. Organic lasers and organic photonics -- 1.6. Perspective2. Organic laser dyes -- 2.1. Introduction -- 2.2. Organic laser dye molecules -- 2.3. Organic laser dyes in the liquid-state a…
"Version: 20181201"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Practical realisation of the length by interferometry??ogeneral principles and limitations -- 1.1. A short history of the metre and the present definition -- 1.2. Realisation of the length by direct measurement of the light travelling time (time-of-flight measurement) -- 1.3. The basic concept of length measurement by …