"Version: 20210205"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Introduction -- 1.1. Introduction -- 1.2. Switching -- 1.3. Linear optics : response theory and the Kramers-Kronig transformation -- 1.4. Nonlinear optics -- 1.5. Integrated optics--semiconductor optical waveguides -- 1.6. Outline of book2. Linear electro-optic effect, electroabsorption and electrorefraction -- 2.1. Di…
"Version: 20201101"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. What are electromagnetic waves? -- 1.1. Electromagnetic radiation -- 1.2. Characterization of EM waves -- 1.3. Basic properties of EM waves -- 1.4. Summary2. Lasers and applying EM wave theory -- 2.1. How does a laser work? -- 2.2. Laser resonator -- 2.3. Types of lasers -- 2.4. Tuning of laser output wavelength -- 2.5…
"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: 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: 20221201"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Introduction -- 1.1. Bright field microscopy -- 1.2. Phase contrast microscopy -- 1.3. Quantitative phase microscopy -- 1.4. Coherence properties of laser light -- 1.5. Origin of speckles in imaging and microscopy -- 1.6. Effects of speckle on imaging and microscopy -- 1.7. Methods of generating partially spatially coh…
"Version: 20230801"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.part I. Basic principles and components. 1. Introduction -- 1.1. History -- 1.2. Growth expectations -- 1.3. Book overview2. Light sources and detectors -- 2.1. Optical properties of light sources -- 2.2. Incandescent sources -- 2.3. Light emitting diodes -- 2.4. Laser -- 2.5. Photodiodes, and phototransistors -- 2.6. Ima…
"Version: 20240101"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Introduction -- 1.1. Singularity -- 1.2. Singularities in science and engineering -- 1.3. Acoustic vortex -- 1.4. Singularities in optics -- 1.5. Amplitude, phase and polarization -- 1.6. Brief historical account of optical phase singularities2. Topological features -- 2.1. Introduction -- 2.2. Wavefront shape -- 2.3. …
"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 …