"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: 20201201"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Preliminaries -- 1.1. Why is lens design hard? -- 1.2. How to use this book2. Fundamentals -- 2.1. Paraxial optics -- 2.2. Lagrange invariant, thin-lens equation -- 2.3. Pupils3. Aberrations -- 3.1. Ray-fan curves -- 3.2. Abbe sine condition -- 3.3. Higher-order aberrations -- 3.4. Spot diagrams -- 3.5. Wavefronts and …
"Version: 20221201"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.part I. Some preliminary ideas. 1. What is science? What is art?part II. The nature of light. 2. What light is -- 3. What light does -- 4. The weird world of the photon -- 5. Spectra and sources of lightpart III. Geometry and two-dimensional design. 6. Geometry and the picture plane -- 7. Light and shadows 1 : eclipses --…
"Version: 202109"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Optics, sensors and images -- 1.1. Introduction -- 1.2. Optics and images -- 1.3. Vision -- 1.4. Optical instruments and optical design -- 1.5. Cameras -- 1.6. CCD sensor -- 1.7. CMOS sensor -- 1.8. Python as a program language for this book -- 1.9. Artificial vision and computer vision -- 1.10. End notes2. Introduction …
"Version: 202111"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Reflection and refraction of light -- 1.1. Basic theory -- 1.2. Virtual lab : reflection and refraction -- 1.3. Real lab : reflection and refraction2. Thin lenses -- 2.1. Basic theory -- 2.2. Virtual lab A : converging lens -- 2.3. Virtual lab B : converging -- 2.4. Real lab : thin lens equation3. Human eye and correctiv…
"Version: 20230701"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. LiDAR's role in autonomous driving -- 1.1. Autonomous driving -- 1.2. LiDAR in autonomous driving2. Fundamentals of ToF LiDAR -- 2.1. Principle of ToF ranging -- 2.2. LiDAR structure -- 2.3. AMCW LiDAR -- 2.4. FMCW LiDAR3. Laser source and transmitter -- 3.1. Fundamentals of semiconductor lasers -- 3.2. CW and pulsed l…
"Version: 20220401"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Introduction -- 1.1. Light -- 1.2. Detectors -- 1.3. Benefits of using an imaging system2. Lasers -- 2.1. Light emission, absorption and matter interactions -- 2.2. Properties of lasers and laser light -- 2.3. Laser safety -- 2.4. Additional resources3. Silicon-based imaging systems -- 3.1. Vision -- 3.2. Detectors -- …
"Version: 20220901"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. History of our laser experiments -- 1.1. Laser isotope separation laboratory -- 1.2. Laser and optics laboratory -- 1.3. Teaching laboratory : Experimental Physics V -- 1.4. Advanced laboratory -- 1.5. Summary2. Saturated absorption spectroscopy -- 2.1. Description of saturated absorption spectroscopy -- 2.2. Multi-lev…
"Version: 202111"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Introduction -- 2. Exact solutions of the basic equations -- 2.1. Initial hypotheses -- 2.2. Solution of the classical equation of electron motion -- 2.3. Solution of the Klein-Gordon equation -- 2.4. Solution of the Dirac equation3. Modelling ultra-relativistic interactions in electron plasmas -- 3.1. Initial hypotheses…