"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: 20210207"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.part I. What we probably know. 1. The Standard Models--overview and perspective -- 1.1. The large number of solutions to string/M-theory is not an obstacle to finding a theory that describes nature -- 1.2. String theorists study theories, not phenomena -- 1.3. Nutcracker -- 1.4. Why the Standard Model is true--it will be …
"Version: 20221201"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Rays, matrices, and transfer maps -- 1.1. Paraxial approximation -- 1.2. Thin lenses -- 1.3. Thick lenses -- 1.4. Transfer maps -- 1.5. Computer resources2. Linear magnetic lenses and deflectors -- 2.1. Magnetic rigidity, momentum, and cyclotron frequency -- 2.2. Solenoid focusing -- 2.3. Quadrupole focusing -- 2.4. Th…
"Version: 20221201"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Introduction -- 1.1. Basics of elementary particle physics2. Jet algorithms -- 2.1. Cone or sequential algorithms? -- 2.2. Common issues with jet algorithms -- 2.3. Further jet clustering procedures3. QCD for jet physics -- 3.1. Fixed-order QCD calculations -- 3.2. QCD at all orders -- 3.3. At the boundary of perturbat…
"Version: 20231001"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.Appendix A. Physics scaling of particle ring accelerators -- Appendix B. Computer codes.1. Space charge and other physics at the University of Maryland Electron Ring (UMER) -- 1.1. UMER lattice and injection -- 1.2. Emittance, space charge and betatron tune shifts -- 1.3. Closed orbit -- 1.4. Betatron resonances and space…