Optical Science and Engineering
Rare-Earth-Doped Fiber Lasers and Amplifiers
3rd Edition
Edited
By Michel J.F. Digonnet
November 26, 2025
Rare-Earth-Doped Fiber Lasers and Amplifiers, Third Edition, provides an in-depth description of the basic principles, operating characteristics, theoretical models, and current technology of the main fiber lasers and amplifiers based on rare-earth-doped silica, fluorozirconate, and other non-oxide...
Photonic Signal Processing: Techniques and Applications
1st Edition
By Le Nguyen Binh
May 31, 2024
The potential of photonic signal processing (PSP) to overcome electronic limits for processing ultra-wideband signals, provide signal conditioning that can be integrated in line with fiber optic systems, and improve signal quality makes this technology extremely attractive for improvement in ...
Smart CMOS Image Sensors and Applications
1st Edition
By Jun Ohta
January 16, 2023
Because of their high noise immunity and low static power supply drain, complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) devices produce less heat than other forms of logic and allow a high density of logic functions on a chip. These beneficial characteristics have fueled the use of CMOS image ...
Handbook of Optical Engineering
1st Edition
By Daniel Malacara
June 30, 2020
This handbook explains principles, processes, methods, and procedures of optical engineering in a concise and practical way. It emphasizes fundamental approaches and provides useful formulas and step-by-step worked-out examples to demonstrate applications and clarify calculation methods. The book ...
Organic Photovoltaics: Mechanisms, Materials, and Devices
1st Edition
Edited
By Sam-Shajing Sun, Niyazi Serdar Sariciftci
June 30, 2020
Recently developed organic photovoltaics (OPVs) show distinct advantages over their inorganic counterparts due to their lighter weight, flexible shape, versatile materials synthesis and device fabrication schemes, and low cost in large-scale industrial production. Although many books currently ...
Handbook of Optical Fibers and Cables, Second Edition
2nd Edition
By Hiroshi Murata
January 08, 2020
This work covers the history of optical communications, fibres and fiber cables, and compares optical fibres with other transmission media. It also discusses optical fibre materials, reliability and manufacture, illustrates the design, construction and properties of recent cables used for optical ...
Practical Applications of Microresonators in Optics and Photonics
1st Edition
Edited
By Andrey B. Matsko
June 12, 2019
Assembling an international team of experts, this book reports on the progress in the rapidly growing field of monolithic micro- and nanoresonators. The book opens with a chapter on photonic crystal-based resonators (nanocavities). It goes on to describe resonators in which the closed ...
Photonic Signal Processing, Second Edition: Techniques and Applications
2nd Edition
By Le Nguyen Binh
December 13, 2018
This Second Edition of "Photonic Signal Processing" updates most recent R&D on processing techniques of signals in photonic domain from the fundamentals given in its first edition. Several modern techniques in Photonic Signal Processing (PSP) are described: Graphical signal flow technique to...
Diffraction Gratings and Applications
1st Edition
By Erwin G. Loewen, Evgeny Popov
October 08, 2018
"Offers and up-to-date assessment of the entire field of diffraction gratings, including history, physics, manufacture, testing, and instrument design. Furnishes--for the first time in a single-source reference--a thorough review of efficiency behavior, examining echelles as well as concave, binary...
Organic Photoreceptors for Imaging Systems
1st Edition
By Paul M. Borsenberger, David S. Weiss
October 08, 2018
This reference covers in detail the preparation and application of current and emerging organic materials used as xerographic photoreceptors, emphasizing the photo-electric properties of organic solids and evaluating their potential use in xerography.;Reviewing the development of xerography and the...
Light Propagation in Periodic Media: Differential Theory and Design
1st Edition
By Michel Neviere, Evgeny Popov
October 03, 2018
Based on more than 30 years of research on differential theories of gratings, this book describes developments in differential theory for applications in spectroscopy, acoustics, X-ray instrumentation, optical communication, information processing, photolithography, high-power lasers, ...
Mathematical Morphology in Image Processing
1st Edition
By Edward Dougherty
October 03, 2018
Presents the statistical analysis of morphological filters and their automatic optical design, the development of morphological features for image signatures, and the design of efficient morphological algorithms. Extends the morphological paradigm to include other branches of science and ...