"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…
"Version: 20170901"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.Preface -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Phase estimation : spatial fringe analysis -- 2.1. Background -- 2.2. Carrier fringe pattern demodulation -- 2.3. Closed fringe pattern demodulation3. Fringe denoising and phase unwrapping -- 3.1. Real sinusoidal fringe pattern denoising -- 3.2. Phase fringe pattern denoising -- 3.3. Phase…
"Version: 20181201"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references and index.1. Introduction -- 1.1. Introduction -- 1.2. Laser linewidth -- 1.3. Solid-state organic lasers -- 1.4. Organic photonics -- 1.5. Organic lasers and organic photonics -- 1.6. Perspective2. Organic laser dyes -- 2.1. Introduction -- 2.2. Organic laser dye molecules -- 2.3. Organic laser dyes in the liquid-state a…
"Version: 20201201"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Introduction -- 1.1. Introduction to visible light communications -- 1.2. State-of-the-art in visible light communications -- 1.3. Summary2. Technological enablers -- 2.1. Introduction -- 2.2. Principles of light generation and absorption -- 2.3. Organic semiconductors -- 2.4. Summary3. High-speed circuits and channel …
"Version: 202108"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Introduction / Ahmed Issa and Dermot Brabazon -- 2. Laser systems, types and beam properties / Rasheedat M. Mahamood and Esther T. Akinlabi -- 3. Physical principles of laser-material interaction regimes for laser machining processes / Ahmed Issa, Furat I. Hussein Al-Najjar, Ahmed Al-Hamaoy and Bassam G. Rasheed -- 4. Ef…
"Version: 20190601"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.part I. The basics of laser safety. 1. Why are laser accidents still happening? -- 1.1. Bad behavior and no negative consequences -- 1.2. Possible future : virtual reality -- 1.3. On the job training/mentoring (a topic you will find mentioned several times in this text, but learning is through repetition) -- 1.4. Recommen…
"Version: 20190401"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Introduction -- 2. Reasons from astrophysics and atomic physics for our world to be three-dimensional -- 3. More on the stability of atoms and planetary systems in our three-dimensional world : why do we live longer than a tiny fraction of a second? -- 4. Crossing of the micro- and macro-worlds : similarities between p…
"Version: 20181201"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.4. Microwave technologies for wearable communication systems -- 4.1. Introduction -- 4.2. MIC--microwave integrated circuit -- 4.3. Low noise K band compact receiving channel for a satellite communication ground terminal -- 4.4. MMICs--monolithic microwave integrated circuits -- 4.5. 18-40 GHz front end -- 4.6. MEMS techn…
"Version: 20201201"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.7. Electromagnetic reciprocity -- 7.1. Reciprocity theorems in the frequency and time domains -- 7.2. Compensation theorem8. Reactance theorems -- 8.1. Reactance theorems for networks and antennas9. Geometrical optics and Fermat's principle -- 9.1. Geometrical optics and Fermat's principle -- 9.2. Gradient metasurfaces an…
"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…