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  • Goethe's "Exposure Of Newton's Theory": A Polemic On Newton's Theory Of Light And Colour

    by Michael Petry, Michael John Duck ...
    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, although best known for his literary work, was also a keen and outspoken natural scientist. In the second polemic part of Zur Farbenlehre (Theory of Colours), for example, Goethe attacked Isaac Newton's ground-breaking revelation that light is heterogeneous and not immutable, as was previously thought.This polemic was unanimously rejected by the physicists of the day, ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

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    Series series Children's Physics Books
    The purpose of this educational book is to teach your child the importance of electricity. However, unlike the school's official textbooks, this book contains just the right blend of text and images to facilitate self-paced learning. Use this book to complement classroom-based education. Make sure to grab your child a copy now! ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Fiber Bragg Gratings

    by Raman Kashyap ...
    - Provides an overview of Fiber Bragg Gratings (FBGs), from fundamentals to applications - Evaluates the advantages and disadvantages of particular applications, methods and techniques - Contains new chapters on sensing, femtosecond laser writing of FBGs and poling of glass and optical fibers - Includes a special version of the photonic simulator PicWave(tm), allowing the reader to make live ... Read more

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  • How the Ray Gun Got Its Zap

    Odd Excursions into Optics

    by Stephen R. Wilk ...
    How the Ray Gun Got Its Zap is a collection of essays that discusses odd and unusual topics in optics. Though optics is a fairly specialized branch of physics, this book extracts from the discipline topics that are particularly interesting, mysterious, culturally relevant, or accessible. The essays all first appeared, in abbreviated form, in Optics and Photonics News and in The Spectrograph; the ... Read more

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  • Cambridge Illustrated Handbook of Optoelectronics and Photonics

    by Safa Kasap, Harry Ruda, Yann Boucher ...
    From fundamental concepts to cutting-edge applications, this is the first encyclopaedic reference of important terms and effects in optoelectronics and photonics. It contains broad coverage of terms and concepts from materials to optical devices and communications systems. Self-contained descriptions of common tools and phenomena are provided for undergraduate and graduate students, scientists, ... Read more

    $133.69 USD

  • The Angular Momentum of Light

    Edited by David L. Andrews, Mohamed Babiker ...
    Recent developments in the angular momentum of light present fresh challenges to long established concepts and pave the way for new and wide-ranging applications. The scope for structured light such as optical vortices, in particular, now extends from microfluidics to quantum information. This is the first comprehensive edited collection dealing with light carrying spin and orbital angular ... Read more

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  • Lasers

    The Power and Precision of Light

    by Jean-Claude Diels, Ladan Arissian ...
    "Lasers" are active ingredients of our modern life, but they are inconspicuous as they often go unnoticed. This intuitive introductory guide will tell you all you want to know about laser technologies in very diverse fields from nuclear and particle physics to medicine, astronomy and ultra-precise metrology. The book is coherently focused on fundamentals, and is aimed to stimulate intuition about ... Read more

    $37.50 USD

  • Color Theory and Its Application in Art and Design

    by George A. Agoston ...
    Series series Physics and Astronomy (R0)
    My aim in this introductory text is to present a comprehensible discussion of certain technical topics and recent developments in color science that I believe are of real interest to artists and designers. I treat a number of applications of this knowledge, for example in selection and use of colorants (pigments and dyes) and light. Early in the book I discuss what color is and what its ... Read more

    $80.99 USD

  • Linear Canonical Transforms

    Theory and Applications

    Edited by John J. Healy, M. Alper Kutay, Haldun M. Ozaktas, John T. Sheridan ...
    Series series Physics and Astronomy (R0)
    This book provides a clear and accessible introduction to the essential mathematical foundations of linear canonical transforms from a signals and systems perspective. Substantial attention is devoted to how these transforms relate to optical systems and wave propagation. There is extensive coverage of sampling theory and fast algorithms for numerically approximating the family of transforms. ... Read more

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  • Light Localisation and Lasing

    Random and Quasi-random Photonic Structures

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    The properties of quasi-random and random photonic systems have been extensively studied over the last two decades, but recent technological advances have opened new horizons in the field, providing better samples and devices. New optical characterization techniques have enhanced understanding of the novel and fundamental properties of these systems. This book examines the full hierarchy of these ... Read more

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  • Transport in Laser Microfabrication

    Fundamentals and Applications

    by Costas P. Grigoropoulos ...
    Emphasising the fundamentals of transport phenomena, this book provides researchers and practitioners with the technical background they need to understand laser-induced microfabrication and materials processing at small scales. It clarifies the laser/materials coupling mechanisms, and discusses the nanoscale confined laser interactions that constitute powerful tools for top-down nanomanufacturing ... Read more

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  • Alternative Energies

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    Edited by Germán Ferreira ...
    Series series Chemistry and Material Science (R0)
    This book presents nine chapters based on fundamental and applied research of alternative energies. At the present time, the challenge is that technology has to come up with solutions that can provide environmentally friendly energy supply options that are able to cover the current world energy demand. Experts around the world are working on these issues for providing new solutions that will break ... Read more

    $143.09 USD