"Version: 20241201"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Potentials in multilayer planar systems -- 1.1. Introduction -- 1.2. Equations of the spatial distribution of potentials in planar multilayer systems -- 1.3. Modulation transmission matrix -- 1.4. Modulation transmission matrix for three-layer and five-layer systems -- 1.5. Modulation transmission matrix for periodic s…
"Version: 20140601"--Title page verso."A Morgan & Claypool publication as part of IOP Concise Physics"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references and index.Preface -- Let there be light! -- Introduction -- History -- What are force fields? -- Electric and magnetic fields -- Maxwell's equationsQuanta and photons, oh my! -- Prologue -- Introduction -- Black-body radiation -- The photoe…
"Version: 20241001"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Our energy needs and the case for nuclear fission -- 1.1. Introduction -- 1.2. Our past and present energy use -- 1.3. Environmental consequences of our energy use -- 1.4. Approaches to climate change mitigation -- 1.5. Energy options for the future2. Some introductory nuclear physics -- 2.1. Introduction -- 2.2. Nucle…
"Version: 20231101"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.part I. Introduction. 1. Basic concepts -- 1.1. Introduction -- 1.2. Terminology and definitions -- 1.3. Units and dimensions -- 1.4. Sources of information2. Subatomic particles and their interactions -- 2.1. Classification of subatomic particles -- 2.2. Classification and ranges of interactions -- 2.3. Conservation laws…
"Version: 20140601"--Title page verso."A Morgan & Claypool publication as part of IOP Concise Physics"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references and index.Preface -- Introduction and overview -- Prologue -- Some scientific preliminaries -- The Manhattan Project : a surveyThe background science -- Energy units, nuclear reactions and decay processes -- The neutron, artificial radioact…
"Version: 20160301"--Title page verso."A Morgan & Claypool publication as part of IOP Concise Physics"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.Preface -- 1. Rays and matrices -- 1.1. Paraxial approximation -- 1.2. Thin lens -- 1.3. Thick lens2. Linear magnetic lenses and deflectors -- 2.1. Magnetic rigidity, momentum, and cyclotron frequency -- 2.2. Solenoid focusing -- 2.3. Quadr…
"Version: 20250701"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Introduction -- 1.1. What is quantum optics? -- 1.2. Open quantum systems -- 1.3. The mystery of the polaroids -- 1.4. This book2. Classical electromagnetism and linear optics -- 2.1. Maxwell's equations and electromagnetic waves -- 2.2. Wave equation for fields in a medium -- 2.3. Slowly varying envelope approximation…
"Version: 20230501"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.part I. A historical, mathematical and optical introduction for beginners. 1. A brief history of stigmatic lens desing -- 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 t…
"Version: 20241201"--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: 20241201"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Introduction -- 1.1. Optical wireless communication -- 1.2. VLC for intelligent transportation -- 1.3. AI-based V2X VLC communications -- 1.4. The autonomous vehicle -- 1.5. VLC/OWC communications to flying objects -- 1.6. VLC V2X research directions -- 1.7. Chapter summary2. Nuts and bolts of V2X VLC systems -- 2.1. V…