"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…
"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…
"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: 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…
"Version: 20221201"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.Page dedicated to Professor Allan D Boardman -- 1. Introductory chapter -- 1.1. Metamaterials : the discovery of 2000th -- 1.2. Characteristic features of the media and wave phenomena in metamaterials and the main approaches to their modeling -- 1.3. Purpose, tasks, and structure of the book2. Metamaterials with active me…
"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…
"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: 20190601"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references and index.1. Forms of quantum mechanics -- 1.1. The Schr?odinger and Heisenberg pictures -- 1.2. Interaction picture -- 1.3. Density-matrix formulation of quantum mechanics -- 1.4. Further contents of Heisenberg's commutation relations2. Lorentz group and its representations -- 2.1. Lie algebra of the Lorentz group -- 2.2…
"Version: 20181101"--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: 20200801"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Introduction -- 1.1. What is the purpose of this book, and for whom it is intended -- 1.2. Basic equipment : hardware, light sources, lenses, mirrors, windows, filters, cameras etc.2. Geometrical optics -- 2.1. Prism spectrometer and glass dispersion -- 2.2. Critical angle of reflection and Abbe refractometer : measure…