"Version: 20220901"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references and index.1. Introduction -- 1.1. Introduction -- 1.2. Foundations of quantum mechanics -- 1.3. Ward's observations -- 1.4. History of quantum entanglement -- 1.5. The field of quantum entanglement -- 1.6. Fundamentals of quantum entanglement -- 1.7. Intent2. Dirac's physics -- 2.1. Introduction -- 2.2. Dirac's pair theor…
"Version: 20240701"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Introduction -- 1.1. The nature of light waves -- 1.2. The photon nature of light -- 1.3. The polarization states of light -- 1.4. The chemistry and physics of materials -- 1.5. Nonlinear optical (NLO) properties -- 1.6. Mechanical properties of organic crystals -- 1.7. Photonic integrated circuits (PICs)2. Properties …
"Version: 20231001"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Motivation -- 1.1. PIN-photodiode and APD receivers -- 1.2. SPAD receivers -- 1.3. Quantum image sensors -- 1.4. The principle of ultra-sensitive PIN and avalanche photodiode receivers2. Basics of photodiodes -- 2.1. Optical absorption and photogeneration -- 2.2. Drift and diffusion -- 2.3. Width of space-charge region…
"Version: 20251101"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Introduction -- 1.1. History of Bose-Einstein condensates -- 1.2. Bose-Einstein condensation : an experimental and theoretical perspective -- 1.3. Mean field description and Gross-Pitaevskii equation -- 1.4. Fermionic condensates -- 1.5. Beyond mean-field description -- 1.6. Outline2. Analytical methods -- 2.1 Inverse …
Revised edition of: Lasers and their application to the observation of Bose-Einstein condensates."Version: 20230501"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.part I. Lasers. 1. The basic physics of lasers -- 1.1. Introduction -- 1.2. Optical spectra -- 1.3. Stimulated emission -- 1.4. Creating a population inversion -- 1.5. Laser modes and coherence2. Conventional lasers -- 2.1. In…
"Version: 20241101"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.8. Introduction to complex light -- 8.1. Bessel beams -- 8.2. Airy beams -- 8.3. Generation of complex light -- 8.4. Applications9. Everyday optical systems and beyond -- 9.1. Barcode readers -- 9.2. Finger print sensors -- 9.3. Pulse oximeters -- 9.4. Interferometry based measurements -- Appendix A. Using Zemax or OSLO t…
"Version: 20221201"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.part I. The basics of laser safety. 1. Why are laser accidents still happening? / Ken Barat -- 2. Classification: a means of hazard communication / Ken Barat -- 3. Biological effects: something you should know about / Ken Barat -- 4. Laser safety terms: the language LSOs speak / Ken Barat -- 5. Risk assessment for lasers …
"Version: 20240601"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Introduction / F.J. Duarte -- 2. Organic laser dyes / F.J. Duarte -- 3. Energetics of organic laser dyes / F.J. Duarte -- 4. Polymer matrices for lasers / F.J. Duarte and K.M. Vaeth -- 5. Cavity and resonator architectures for high-performance organic laser oscillators / F.J. Duarte -- 6. Mathematical-physics for tunab…
"Version: 20241101"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Highly efficient materials for photonic crystal-based optical components / M. Soroosh, F. Parandin, F. Haddadan, M.J. Maleki and F. Bagheri -- 2. Unidirectional bulk growth of 1,3,5-triphenylbenzene single crystal and doping effect on its optical properties / Narayanan Durairaj, Sakthivel Raja, Sridharan Moorthi Babu, …
"Version: 20220401"--Title page verso.Revised edition of: A pedagogical introduction to electroweak baryogenesis.Includes bibliographical references.1. Introduction -- 2. The Sakharov conditions3. Baryon number violation in the Standard Model -- 3.1. The axial anomaly -- 3.2. The Chern-Simons form, baryon number violation, and the winding number -- 3.3. Winding number and non-abelian gauge grou…