"Version: 20200202"--Title page verso.1. Historical overview and digital transmission technologies in cloud networking -- 1.1. Non-DSP based optical transmission technologies -- 1.2. Signal processor DSP based optical transmission -- 1.3. Increasing transmission capacity over short distances -- 1.4. Digital optical transmission in evolving networking -- 1.5. Photonic signal processing -- 1.6. M…
"Version: 20191001"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Introduction -- 2. Quantum hydrogenic atoms or ions in a high-frequency laser field -- 3. Classical (Rydberg) hydrogen atoms in a high-frequency laser field : celestial analogies -- 4. Rydberg states of muonic-electronic helium atoms or helium-like ions -- 5. A circumbinary planet around a binary star in Einstein's gen…
"Version: 20201201"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Terms, definitions and standards / Richard Leach -- 2. State-of-the-art in point cloud analysis / Sofia Catalucci and Nicola Senin -- 3. Laser triangulation / Mohammed A Isa, Samanta Piano and Richard Leach -- 4. Close-range photogrammetry / Danny Sims-Waterhouse, Richard Leach and Samanta Piano -- 5. Digital fringe pr…
"Version: 20201201"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Terms and definitions / Richard Leach -- 2. Coherence scanning interferometry / Rong Su -- 3. Focus variation / Claudia Repitsch, Kerstin Zangl, Franz Helmli and Reinhard Danzl -- 4. Imaging confocal microscopy / Roger Artigas -- 5. Non-scanning techniques / Xiaobing Feng, Zhengchun Du and Jianguo Yang -- 6. Scattering…
"Version: 20210205"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Review of electromagnetic radiation -- 1.1. Historical introduction -- 1.2. Maxwell's equations in free space -- 1.3. The free-space wave equation -- 1.4. Phase and group velocity -- 1.5. Energy flux -- 1.6. Resonator electric field -- 1.7. Problems2. Polarization of light -- 2.1. Historical introduction -- 2.2. Polari…
"Version: 20231101"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Introduction -- 2. Ultrashort intenselasers -- 2.1. Short pulse generation and amplification methods -- 2.2. Characterization and manipulation of ultrashort lasers -- 2.3. Laser focus control techniques3. Instrumentations for laser-plasma interaction with ultra-intense lasers -- 3.1. Vacuum systems -- 3.2. Optical syst…
"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: 20241001"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Fundamentals of printing -- 1.1. What is printing? -- 1.2. What is a print? -- 1.3. Different printing technologies -- 1.4. What is the future of print?2. Printing on different substrates -- 2.1. Printing on paper -- 2.2. Printing on ceramics and metal, from tableware to tiles -- 2.3. Printing on plastic -- 2.4. Printi…