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A guided tour of light beams :from lasers to optical knots /
"Version: 20201101"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Introduction : from death rays to smartphones -- 2. Optical propagation -- 2.1. Electromagnetic fields -- 2.2. Helmholtz equation and wave optics -- 2.3. Looking forward3. Gaussian beams and lasers -- 3.1. Lasers -- 3.2. Gaussian beams -- 3.3. Coherent and squeezed states -- 3.4. Optical tweezers4. Orbital angular mome…
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Photography :physics and art in focus /
"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 --…
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The Jaynes-Cummings model and its descendants :modern research directions /
"Version: 202112"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references and index.1. Theoretical aspects -- 1.1. The Jaynes-Cummings model -- 1.2. Jaynes-Cummings dynamics -- 1.3. Driven and open Jaynes-Cummings physics -- 1.4. Beyond the rotating wave approximation : the quantum Rabi model -- 1.5. Extended Jaynes-Cummings models -- 1.6. Extended Jaynes-Cummings models turned into single partic…
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Introduction to ray, wave, and beam optics with applications /
"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…
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Optical cryptosystems /
"Version: 20191201"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Digital techniques of data and image encryption -- 1.1. Introduction -- 1.2. Types of cryptography2. Optical techniques of image encryption : symmetric cryptosystems -- 2.1. Introduction -- 2.2. Encryption using linear canonical transforms3. Fully-phase image encryption -- 3.1. Introduction -- 3.2. Phase imaging -- 3.3…
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Optical fiber technology and applications :recent advances /
"Version: 202108"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. A new class of specialty optical fibers based on a novel material composition of the doping host for the study of optical amplification / Mukul Chandra Paul, Alexander V Kir'yanov, Yuri Barmenkov, Jos?e Duarte, Joaquim P. Leit?aao, M?ario F. Ferreira, Ana M. Rocha, Randall Youngman, Mrinmay Pal, Anirban Dhar, Shyamal Das…
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Lithium niobate-based heterostructures :synthesis, properties and electron ph…
"Version: 20180801"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Thin films of lithium niobate : potential applications, synthesis methods, structure and properties -- 1.1. The structure and main properties of bulk lithium niobate -- 1.2. Application of thin LiNbO3 films -- 1.3. Fabrication methods of thin LiNbO3 films -- 1.4. Fundamentals of RFMS method, an ion-beam sputtering meth…
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Complex light /
"Version: 20170101"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references (pages 17-18).Introduction -- Background -- Current directions -- Outlook.The emerging field of complex light - the study and application of custom light beams with tailored intensity, polarization or phase - is a focal point for fundamental breakthroughs in optical science. As this review will show, those advances in fun…
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Nonlinear guided wave optics :a testbed for extreme waves /
"Version: 20171201"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Extreme events in forced oscillatory media in zero, one and two dimensions -- 1.1. Introduction -- 1.2. Zero dimensions -- 1.3. One dimension -- 1.4. Two dimensions -- 1.5. Conclusion2. Extreme waves in stimulated backscattering and frequency conversion processes -- 2.1. Introduction -- 2.2. Fundamental rogue wave solu…
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Lens design basics :optical design problem-solving in theory and practice /
"Version: 20201201"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Fundamentals -- 1.1. Light waves and light rays -- 1.2. Refraction -- 1.3. Dispersion -- 1.4. Reflection -- 1.5. Absorption and transmission -- 1.6. Interference -- 1.7. Diffraction and optical resolution -- 1.8. Fundamentals--bottom line2. Introduction to imaging models -- 2.1. The paraxial or Gaussian imaging model -…
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