"Version: 20161101"--Title page verso."A Morgan & Claypool publication as part of IOP Concise Physics"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.Foreword -- 1. Maxwell equations -- 1.1. Macroscopic Maxwell equations -- 1.2. Symmetry properties -- 1.3. Harmonic scattering by a bounded obstacle -- 1.4. Covariant formulation -- 1.5. Maxwell equations using forms2. Bloch waves -- 2.1. T…
"Version: 20231101"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Introduction -- 1.1. Introduction -- 1.2. Quantum tunnelling devices -- 1.3. Negative differential conductance -- 1.4. Nonlinear dynamics -- 1.5. Optoelectronic integrated circuits -- 1.6. Outline2. Quantum tunnelling -- 2.1. Introduction -- 2.2. Negative differential resistance -- 2.3. Calculating the transmission pro…
"Version: 20230501"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.part I. A historical, mathematical and optical introduction for beginners. 1. A brief history of stigmatic lens desing -- 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 t…
"Version: 20250701"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Introduction -- part I. Classical theory of light. 2. Electromagnetic field and light-matter interaction -- 2.1. Maxwell's equations, wave equation, and the Helmholtz equation -- 2.2. The propagator for the Helmholtz equation -- 2.3. Helmholtz equation in cylindrical coordinates : Bessel beams -- 2.4. Paraxial approxim…
"Version: 20241201"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Introduction -- 2. Mathematical preliminaries -- 2.1. Fourier transform basics -- 2.2. Review of random processes theory -- 2.3. Simulating a random process with known spectral density -- 2.4. Complex signal representation -- 2.5. Spiral phase quadrature transform3. The angular spectrum method -- 3.1. Wave equation -- …
"Version: 20250701"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Introduction -- 1.1. What is quantum optics? -- 1.2. Open quantum systems -- 1.3. The mystery of the polaroids -- 1.4. This book2. Classical electromagnetism and linear optics -- 2.1. Maxwell's equations and electromagnetic waves -- 2.2. Wave equation for fields in a medium -- 2.3. Slowly varying envelope approximation…
"Version: 20241201"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Introduction -- 1.1. Optical wireless communication -- 1.2. VLC for intelligent transportation -- 1.3. AI-based V2X VLC communications -- 1.4. The autonomous vehicle -- 1.5. VLC/OWC communications to flying objects -- 1.6. VLC V2X research directions -- 1.7. Chapter summary2. Nuts and bolts of V2X VLC systems -- 2.1. V…
"Version: 20240201"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Imaging -- 1.1. An introduction to the real world -- 1.2. Optical system design using Ansys Zemax OpticStudioª -- 1.3. Practical concepts for optical system layout and analysis -- 1.4. Practical lens design and aberration management -- 1.5. Preparing drawings for optical fabrication2. Illumination -- 2.1. The illu…
"Version: 20250201"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Introduction : the electromagnetic spectrum -- 2. Maxwell's equations -- 2.1. Gauss's law -- 2.2. 'No magnetic monopoles' -- 2.3. Faraday's law -- 2.4. Amp?ere-Maxwell law -- 2.5. Exercises3. Electromagnetic waves -- 3.1. The wave equation -- 3.2. Solutions of the wave equation -- 3.3. Plane waves -- 3.4. Waves in a ha…
"Version: 20250701"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Field overview -- 1.1. A brief history of OT -- 1.2. Dielectric beads : the standard tools for OT -- 1.3. Optical forces on dielectric beads -- 1.4. Performing measurements with dielectric beads -- 1.5. Absorbing materials and photophoretic forces2. The dipole approximation : Rayleigh regime -- 2.1. Quasi-static approx…