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Progress in Optics : Volume XX - book by Wolf, E.
DESCRIPTION: TABLE OF CONTENTS: AUTHORS: Wolf, E. PAGES: 400 pages PUBLISH DATE: 01/10/1983 ISBN Number: 0-444-86736-8... view more info and the price of this book.
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Progress in Optics : Volume XXI - book by Wolf, E.
DESCRIPTION: TABLE OF CONTENTS: AUTHORS: Wolf, E. PAGES: 446 pages PUBLISH DATE: 01/05/1984 ISBN Number: 0-444-86761-9... view more info and the price of this book.
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Progress in Optics : Volume XXII - book by Wolf, E.
DESCRIPTION: TABLE OF CONTENTS: AUTHORS: Wolf, E. PAGES: 422 pages PUBLISH DATE: 01/07/1985 ISBN Number: 0-444-86923-9... view more info and the price of this book.
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Progress in Optics : Volume XXIV - book by Wolf, E.
DESCRIPTION: TABLE OF CONTENTS: AUTHORS: Wolf, E. PAGES: 532 pages PUBLISH DATE: 01/08/1987 ISBN Number: 0-444-87050-4... view more info and the price of this book.
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Progress in Optics : Volume XXV - book by Wolf, E.
DESCRIPTION: This volume is a jubilee issue and contains some specially designed computer generated holograms for this occasion, together with a description of how to obtain the holographic effect. TABLE OF CONTENTS: AUTHORS: Wolf, E. PAGES: 448 pages PUBLISH DATE: 01/05/1988 ISBN Number... view more info and the price of this book.
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Progress in Optics : Volume XXVII - book by Wolf, E.
DESCRIPTION: TABLE OF CONTENTS: AUTHORS: Wolf, E. PAGES: 438 pages PUBLISH DATE: 01/08/1990 ISBN Number: 0-444-88439-4... view more info and the price of this book.
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Progress in Optics : Volume XXVIII - book by Wolf, E.
DESCRIPTION: Volume XXVIII contains five review articles covering the following areas - digital holography, a field that has found useful applications in connection with data processing and data storage, for 3-d displays and in providing new types of optical components, for example, holographic grat... view more info and the price of this book.
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Progress in Optics : Volume XXIX - book by Wolf, E.
DESCRIPTION: This volume presents five authoritative review articles on optics and related subjects.
The first article deals with important components of many opto-electronic systems, namely waveguide diffraction gratings. It presents an account of the use of waveguide gratings as well as a quanti... view more info and the price of this book.
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Progress in Optics : Volume XXXIII - book by Wolf, E.
DESCRIPTION: This volume contains six review articles dealing with topics of current research interest in optics and in related fields.The first article deals with the so-called embedding method, which has found many useful applications in the study of wave propagation in random media. The second ar... view more info and the price of this book.
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Progress in Optics : Volume XXXIV - book by Wolf, E.
DESCRIPTION: This volume presents a review of the research in several areas of modern optics written by experts well-known in the international scientific community.The first chapter discusses properties and methods of production and detection of coherent superpositions of macroscopically distinguis... view more info and the price of this book.
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Progress in Optics : Volume XXXV - book by Wolf, E.
DESCRIPTION: Volume XXXV contains six review articles.The first article is a discussion on transverse light patterns in non-linear media, lasers and wide aperture interferometers. The next article deals with the detection and spectroscopic studies of single molecules in transparent solids at low tem... view more info and the price of this book.
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Progress in Optics : Volume XXXVI - book by Wolf, E.
DESCRIPTION: This volume presents five review articles covering a broad range of topics which will be of interest to many scientists concerned with optics and related subjects.The first article deals with nonlinear optical properties of chalcogenide glasses. These materials have many interesting str... view more info and the price of this book.
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Progress in Optics : Volume XXXVII - book by Wolf, E.
DESCRIPTION: Volume XXXVII in this renowned series presents six articles describing theoretical and experimental research of current interest in optics.The first article is a review of some of the important applications of the Wigner distribution function in optics and optoelectronics. This is usefu... view more info and the price of this book.
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Progress in Optics : Volume XXXVIII - book by Wolf, E.
DESCRIPTION: This volume contains six review articles on a wide range of topics of current research in optics.
The first article deals with various nonlinear optical phenomena in stratified media, showing that resonances which arise from stratification are of considerable importance for achieving lo... view more info and the price of this book.
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Progress in Optics : Volume XXXIX - book by Wolf, E.
DESCRIPTION: Volume XXXIX presents five review articles dealing with topics of current research interest in optics. The book opens with a chapter dealing with the analytic extension of the concept of geometrical optics rays into the complex domain. The extension is intimately related to inhomogeneou... view more info and the price of this book.
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Progress in Optics : Volume XL - book by Wolf, E.
DESCRIPTION: The publication of volume forty of Progress in Optics marks a significant milestone. Volume one was published in 1961, a year after the invention of the laser, an event which triggered a wealth of new and exciting developments. Many of them have been reported in the 234 review articles ... view more info and the price of this book.
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Progress in Optics : Volume 41 - book by Wolf, E.
DESCRIPTION: It is a pleasure to record that Progress in Optics is commencing the fifth decade of its existence. The first volume was published in 1961, only a few months after the invention of the laser. This event triggered a wealth of new and exciting developments, many of which were reported in ... view more info and the price of this book.
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Progress in Optics : Volume 42 - book by Wolf, E.
DESCRIPTION: This volume present six review articles devoted to various topics of current interest both in classical and in quantum optics. The first article, by S. Ya. Kilin, entitled Quanta and information, is concerned with a multidisciplinary subject which involves optics, information theory, pr... view more info and the price of this book.
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Progress in Optics : Volume 43 - book by Wolf, E.
DESCRIPTION: The seven reviews articles presented in this volume cover a broad range of subjects. The first article is concerned with the use of active optics in modern, large telescopes. The second article discusses variational methods used in nonlinear fiber optics and in related fields. The artic... view more info and the price of this book.
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Progress in Optics : Volume 44 - book by Wolf, E.
DESCRIPTION: This volume contains five articles presenting reviews of several topics of current research which are likely to be of interest to many optical scientists and optical engineers.
The first article, by J. Ohtsubo, deals with the dynamics of feedback-induced instability and chaos. The chara... view more info and the price of this book.
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Progress in Optics : Volume 45 - book by Wolf, E.
DESCRIPTION: This volume contains six review articles on diverse topics that have
become of particular interest to optical scientists and optical
engineers in recent years. The first article, by N. Davidson and N.
Bokor, reviews researches on the anamorphic shaping of laser beams
and of diffuse lig... view more info and the price of this book.
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Progress in Optics : Volume 46 - book by Wolf, E.
DESCRIPTION: Optics has become one of the most dynamic fields of science since the first volume of Progress in Optics was published, forty years ago. At the time of inception of this series, the first lasers were only just becoming operational, holography was in its infancy, subjects such as fiber o... view more info and the price of this book.
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Progress in Optics : Volume 47 - book by Wolf, E.;Wolf, E.
DESCRIPTION: In this volume, six review articles which cover a broad range of topics of current interest in modern optics are included.
The first article by S. Saltiel, A.A. Sukhorukov and Y.S. Kivshar presents an overview of various types of parametric interactions in nonlinear optics which are a... view more info and the price of this book.
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Ellipsometry and Polarized Light - book by Azzam, R.M.A.;Bashara, N.M.
DESCRIPTION: Ellipsometry is a unique optical technique of great sensitivity for in situ non-destructive characterization of surface (inter-facial) phenomena (reactions) utilizing the change in the state of polarization of a light-wave probe. Although known for almost a century, the use of ellipsom... view more info and the price of this book.
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Diffraction Physics - book by Cowley, J.M.
DESCRIPTION: The first edition of this highly successful book appeared in 1975 and evolved from lecture notes for classes in physical optics, diffraction physics and electron microscopy given to advanced undergraduate and graduate students. The book deals with electron diffraction and diffraction fr... view more info and the price of this book.
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Light : Waves, Photons, Atoms - book by Haken, H.
DESCRIPTION: Starting from a rather elementary level, this volume includes a self-contained, concise introduction into the quantum theory of matter and develops in detail the quantum theory of light. It presents the approaches needed to cope with the various interaction processes between light and m... view more info and the price of this book.
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Light : Laser Light Dynamics - book by Haken, H.
DESCRIPTION: This volume deals with laser physics emphasizing laser theory from a physical point of view. It takes into account most recent developments focussing on the dynamics. Proceeding from simple to more difficult questions, the book treats, among other topics: typical experimental laser syst... view more info and the price of this book.
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Laser Handbook, Volume 6 - book by Colson, W.B.;Pellegrini, C.;Renieri, A.
DESCRIPTION: The Free Electron Laser triggers, for many people, wild fantasies on large scale applications. However, Free Electron Lasers are not so much direct devices for various applications, but form an interesting subject within fundamental physics.
The interplay between electric magnetic and... view more info and the price of this book.
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Handbook on Synchrotron Radiation, Volume 3 - book by Brown, G.S.;Moncton, D.E.
DESCRIPTION: The aim of volume 3 of the Handbook on Synchrotron Radiation, is to demonstrate the power and sophistication of experimental methods used to conduct synchrotron radiation research at wavelengths comparable to the interatomic spacing in condensed matter. As a result of the substantial b... view more info and the price of this book.
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Handbook on Synchrotron Radiation, Volume 4 - book by Ebashi, S.;Koch, M.;Rubenstein, E.
DESCRIPTION: The first three volumes in this series were mainly devoted to applications of Synchrotron Radiation in various fields of physics and chemistry. Volume 4 covers in a self-contained manner the properties of sources, elements of instrumentation and applications to biological and medical r... view more info and the price of this book.
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Handbook on Synchrotron Radiation, Volume 2 - book by Marr, G.V.
DESCRIPTION: Volume 2 of this series concentrates on the use of synchrotron radiation which covers that region of the electromagnetic spectrum which extends from about 10eV to 3keV in photon energy and is essentially the region where the radiation is strongly absorbed by atmospheric gases. It there... view more info and the price of this book.
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Fundamental Systems in Quantum Optics - book by Dalibard, J.;Raimond, J.-M.;Zinn-Justin, J.
DESCRIPTION: This book focuses on the new concepts and techniques which have deeply revitalized the field of quantum optics in the last decade. It is now possible to manipulate a simple quantum system (a single atom, ion or molecule, or a single mode of the radiation field) interacting with a well c... view more info and the price of this book.
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Nonlinear Optics - book by Miyata, S.
DESCRIPTION: The field of nonlinear optics developed gradually with the invention of lasers. After the discovery of second-harmonic generation in quartz, many other interesting nonlinear optical processes were rapidly discovered. Simultaneously theoretical programmes for the understanding of nonlin... view more info and the price of this book.
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Ode to a Quantum Physicist - book by Schleich, W.;Walther, H.;Lamb, W.E.
DESCRIPTION: Ode to a Quantum Physicist celebrates the scientific achievements of Marlan O. Scully on the occasion of his sixtieth birthday. It combines personal reminiscences from other renowned physicists who have known and worked with him over the years and 60+ scientific articles from the fronti... view more info and the price of this book.
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Free Electron Lasers 2002 - book by Kim, K.-J.;Milton, S.V.;Gluskin, E.
DESCRIPTION: This book contains the Proceedings of the 24th International Free Electron Laser Conference and the 9th Free Electron Laser Users Workshop, which were held on September 9-13, 2002 at Argonne National Laboratory. Part I has been reprinted from Nucl. Instr. and Meth. A 507 (2003), Nos. 1-... view more info and the price of this book.
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Linear Ray and Wave Optics in Phase Space - book by Torre, Amalia
DESCRIPTION: Ray, wave and quantum concepts are central to diverse and seemingly incompatible models of light. Each model particularizes a specific ''manifestation'' of light, and then corresponds to adequate physical assumptions and formal approximations, whose domains of applicability are well-est... view more info and the price of this book.
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Progress in Optics, 48 - book by Wolf, Emil
DESCRIPTION: In the thirty-seven years that have gone by since the first volume of Progress in Optics was published, optics has become one of the most dynamic fields of science. At the time of inception of this series, the first lasers were only just becoming operational, holography was in its infan... view more info and the price of this book.
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