"Version: 20240901"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Introduction -- 2. Theoretical aspects -- 2.1. The Jaynes-Cummings model -- 2.2. Jaynes-Cummings dynamics -- 2.3. Driven and open Jaynes-Cummings physics -- 2.4. Beyond the rotating-wave approximation : the quantum Rabi model -- 2.5. Extended Jaynes-Cummings models -- 2.6. Extended Jaynes-Cummings models turned into si…
"Version: 20250201"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Introduction : the electromagnetic spectrum -- 2. Maxwell's equations -- 2.1. Gauss's law -- 2.2. 'No magnetic monopoles' -- 2.3. Faraday's law -- 2.4. Amp?ere-Maxwell law -- 2.5. Exercises3. Electromagnetic waves -- 3.1. The wave equation -- 3.2. Solutions of the wave equation -- 3.3. Plane waves -- 3.4. Waves in a ha…
"Version: 20241101"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Introduction -- 1.1. Vortices in nature -- 1.2. Historical review of optical vortices -- 1.3. Orbital angular momentum of vortex beams2. Generation of optical vortex beams -- 2.1. Typical vortex beams -- 2.2. Methods for vortex generation3. Measuring OAM of vortex beams -- 3.1. Interference or diffraction method -- 3.2…
"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…
"Version: 20240201"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Imaging -- 1.1. An introduction to the real world -- 1.2. Optical system design using Ansys Zemax OpticStudioª -- 1.3. Practical concepts for optical system layout and analysis -- 1.4. Practical lens design and aberration management -- 1.5. Preparing drawings for optical fabrication2. Illumination -- 2.1. The illu…
"Version: 20250701"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Field overview -- 1.1. A brief history of OT -- 1.2. Dielectric beads : the standard tools for OT -- 1.3. Optical forces on dielectric beads -- 1.4. Performing measurements with dielectric beads -- 1.5. Absorbing materials and photophoretic forces2. The dipole approximation : Rayleigh regime -- 2.1. Quasi-static approx…
"Version: 20210205"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Topology and physics : a historical overview -- 1.1. Introduction : searching for holes in fields of light -- 1.2. Topology and physics2. Electromagnetism and optics -- 2.1. Electromagnetic fields -- 2.2. Electromagnetic potentials and gauge invariance -- 2.3. Linear and nonlinear optical materials -- 2.4. Polarization…
"Version: 202111"--Title page verso.Revised edition of: Nonlinear optics of photonic crystals and meta-materials.Includes bibliographical references.1. Introduction -- 1.1. Photonic crystals -- 1.2. Metamaterials -- 1.3. Negative index of refraction -- 1.4. Perfect lenses -- 1.5. Periodicity -- 1.6. Excitations in nonlinear media -- 1.7. Systems with defects and disorder2. A simple model of non…
"Version: 20210301"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.part I. Fundamentals 1. Lasers -- 1.1. Why lasers? -- 1.2. Laser action -- 1.3. Oscillators and amplifiers2. Laser light and laser beams -- 2.1. Laser light -- 2.2. Gaussian beams3. Dispersion -- 3.1. Origins of dispersion -- 3.2. Dispersion, ultrafast pulses, and chirp -- 3.3. Propagation through a dispersive medium -- 3…
"Version: 20200901"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. The Maxwell equations -- 1.1. Introduction -- 1.2. Lorentz force -- 1.3. Electric flux -- 1.4. The Gauss law -- 1.5. The Gauss law for magnetism -- 1.6. Faraday's law -- 1.7. Amp?ere's law -- 1.8. The wave equation -- 1.9. The speed and propagation of light -- 1.10. Refraction index -- 1.11. Electromagnetic waves -- 1.…