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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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Neutron and x-ray reflectometry :emerging phenomena at heterostructure interf…
"Version: 20221201"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Introduction -- 1.1. Interface-driven properties using neutron/x-ray reflectometry -- 1.2. Emerging phenomena at interfaces using polarized neutron reflectometry -- 1.3. Thin-film growth mechanisms -- 1.4. Thin-film deposition techniques -- 1.5. Other complementary surface characterisation techniques2. Theory of neutro…
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Advances in x-ray spectroscopy of laser plasmas /
"Version: 20200701"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Introduction -- 2. Charge-exchange-caused dips in spectral lines emitted by laser-produced plasmas -- 2.1. Overview of the theory of the charge-exchange-caused dips in profiles of hydrogenic spectral lines -- 2.2. Discovery of the charge-exchange-caused dips in experimental spectral line profiles from laser-produced pl…
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Causality rules :dispersion theory in non-elementary particle physics /
"Version: 20240401"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Introduction -- 2. Some rules for sum rules -- 2.1. Causality and analyticity -- 2.2. Derivation of dispersion relations -- 2.3. Crossing symmetry -- 2.4. Unitarity -- 2.5. Low-energy theorems and sum rules -- 2.6. Relaxing the convergence condition -- 2.7. Divergencies, subtractions, and renormalization -- 2.8. An app…
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Semiconductor integrated optics for switching light /
"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…
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Electromagnetic waves and lasers /
"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…
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Lens design :automatic and quasi-autonomous computational methods and techniq…
"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 …
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ToF LiDAR for autonomous driving /
"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…
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