"Version: 20220801"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Introduction -- 1.1. Ultrashort pulses -- 1.2. Characteristics of optical pulses -- 1.3. Generation of broadband spectra -- 1.4. Time-bandwidth product -- 1.5. Applications of ultrashort pulses -- 1.6. Ultrashort-pulse-generation techniques -- 1.7. Pulse compression -- 1.8. Experiments with pulse-compression techniques…
"Version: 20200901"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Introduction -- 1.1. How does light meet with matter? -- 1.2. Collectivity that matters -- 1.3. At the boundary from quantum to classical worlds2. Light-induced dipole-dipole interactions -- 2.1. Reservoir interaction volume -- 2.2. Resonant dipole-dipole interactions in free space -- 2.3. Two-dimensional dipole-dipole…
"Version: 20231101"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Introduction -- 2. Ultrashort intenselasers -- 2.1. Short pulse generation and amplification methods -- 2.2. Characterization and manipulation of ultrashort lasers -- 2.3. Laser focus control techniques3. Instrumentations for laser-plasma interaction with ultra-intense lasers -- 3.1. Vacuum systems -- 3.2. Optical syst…
"Version: 202201"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Bra ket algebra of Dirac -- 1.1. The bra and ket notation of Dirac -- 1.2. Hermitian conjugation -- 1.3. Definition of inner product (also called overlap) -- 1.4. Definition of outer product -- 1.5. Eigenvalue equation -- 1.6. Linear vector space -- 1.7. Linear independence -- 1.8. Linear dependence -- 1.9. Span (expansi…
"Version: 20221201"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Foundations of optical interferometry -- 1.1. Light waves -- 1.2. Types of interferometers -- 1.3. Interference of light waves -- 1.4. Multiple wave interference -- 1.5. White-light interferometry -- 1.6. Holographic interferometry2. Coherence -- 2.1. Introduction : the background -- 2.2. Basic principles of coherence …
"Version: 20251101"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. The origins of plate diagram theory -- 1.1. Joseph Petzval (1807-1891) -- 1.2. Lancelot Hugh Aldis (1870-1945) -- 1.3. Cecil Reginald Burch (1901-1983) -- 1.4. To the present day2. The plate diagram for a single surface -- 2.1. First-, third-, and high-order -- 2.2. Useful first-order optics -- 2.3. The Schmidt telesco…
"Version: 20200401"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.part I. A historical, mathematical and optical introduction. 1. A brief history of stigmatic lens design -- 1.1. The rise of geometrical optics -- 1.2. Optics of the ancient Greeks and Arab world -- 1.3. Snell, Descartes, Huygens, Newton and Fermat -- 1.4. 19th and 20th century -- 1.5. The computer era and the closure of …
"Version: 20251201"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Optical physics for laser materials processing -- 1.1. Electromagnetic theory of light propagation -- 1.2. Paraxial approximation -- 1.3. The eikonal equation--material polarization approach -- 1.4. The eikonal equation--Fermat's principle approach -- 1.5. Propagation of electromagnetic waves through matter. Lorentz os…
"Version: 20221201"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Introduction / Bruno Lovaglio Can?cado Trindade and Davies William de Lima Monteiro -- 2. The human eye and refractive correction / Bruno Lovaglio Can?cado Trindade, Glauber Coutinho Eliazar and Davies William de Lima Monteiro -- 3. Optical parameters and charts / Bruno Lovaglio Can?cado Trindade, Davies William de Lim…
"Version: 20230201"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Introduction / Andy Wood -- 2. Hybrid surface fundamentals / Andy Wood -- 3. Hybrid surface ray tracing / Andy Wood -- 4. Paraxial properties and primary aberrations / Andy Wood -- 5. Chromatic aberration and thermal defocus / Andy Wood -- 6. The Sweatt model / Andy Wood -- 7. Blaze design / Andy Wood -- 8. Modelling d…