Optical Sciences and Applications of Light
About the Book Series
Optics is an enabling technology in many fields of science and engineering. The purpose of this book series is to present the state of the art in the basic science of optics, applied optics, and optical engineering, as well as the applications of optics in many areas, including healthcare and life sciences, lighting, energy, manufacturing, information technology, telecommunications, sensors, metrology, defense, and education.
High-Speed 3D Imaging with Digital Fringe Projection Techniques
2nd Edition
By Song Zhang
July 20, 2026
This comprehensive guide presents the latest advancements in Digital Fringe Projection (DFP) technology for non-contact 3D shape measurement. Building upon the foundational knowledge established in the first edition, this expanded volume incorporates significant technological developments from ...
Linear and Nonlinear Crystal Optics: Phenomenology, Symmetries, and Angular Distributions
1st Edition
By Benoit Boulanger, Simon Joly, Patricia Segonds, Yannick Petit
December 22, 2025
This book provides both theoretical foundations and practical insights into linear and nonlinear crystal optics. It bridges the fundamental principles of light-crystal interactions with advanced applications in optics. Linear and Nonlinear Crystal Optics offers a thorough exploration of electric ...
Introduction to Optical Metrology
2nd Edition
By Rajpal Sirohi
September 25, 2025
This book describes both the theory and practice of optical techniques to measure various parameters encountered routinely in science and engineering. Introduction to Optical Metrology, Second Edition, examines the theory and practice of various measurement methodologies utilizing both the ...
Fundamentals of Optomechanics
1st Edition
By Daniel Vukobratovich, Paul Yoder
October 02, 2023
When Galileo designed the tube of his first telescope, optomechanics was born. Concerned with the shape and position of surfaces in an optical system, optomechanics is a subfield of physics that is arguably as old as optics. However, while universities offer courses on the subject, there is a ...
Nonimaging Optics: Solar and Illumination System Methods, Design, and Performance
1st Edition
By Roland Winston, Lun Jiang, Vladimir Oliker
October 02, 2023
This book provides a comprehensive look at the science, methods, designs, and limitations of nonimaging optics. It begins with an in-depth discussion on thermodynamically efficient optical designs and how they improve the performance and cost effectiveness of solar concentrating and illumination ...
Blackbody Radiation: A History of Thermal Radiation Computational Aids and Numerical Methods
1st Edition
By Sean M. Stewart, R. Barry Johnson
December 12, 2019
Shelving Guide: Electrical Engineering In 1900 the great German theoretical physicist Max Planck formulated a correct mathematical description of blackbody radiation. Today, understanding the behavior of a blackbody is of importance to many fields including thermal and infrared systems engineering,...
High-Speed 3D Imaging with Digital Fringe Projection Techniques
1st Edition
By Song Zhang
December 12, 2019
Digital fringe projection (DFP) techniques are used for non-contact shape measurement of 3D images. In the rapidly expanding field of 3D high-speed imaging, the demand for DFP continues to grow due to the technology’s fast speed, flexibility, low cost, and high accuracy.High-Speed 3D Imaging with ...
Nanofabrication: Principles to Laboratory Practice
1st Edition
By Andrew Sarangan
December 12, 2019
This book is designed to introduce typical cleanroom processes, techniques, and their fundamental principles. It is written for the practicing scientist or engineer, with a focus on being able to transition the information from the book to the laboratory. Basic theory such as electromagnetics and ...
Optics Manufacturing: Components and Systems
1st Edition
By Christoph Gerhard
December 12, 2019
Optical components are essential key elements in modern engineering and everyday life. The education of skilled personnel and specialists in the fields of theoretical and practical optics manufacturing is of essential importance for next-generation technologies. Against this background, this book ...
Femtosecond Laser Shaping: From Laboratory to Industry
1st Edition
By Marcos Dantus
December 10, 2019
Expensive, delicate, and difficult to operate, femtosecond lasers have already won two Nobel Prizes and created multi-billion dollar industries. As these lasers break out of laboratories for use in real-world large-scale applications, the number of people using them increases. This book provides a ...
Polarized Light and Optical Systems
1st Edition
By Russell Chipman, Wai Sze Tiffany Lam, Garam Young
August 09, 2018
Polarized Light and Optical Systems presents polarization optics for undergraduate and graduate students in a way which makes classroom teaching relevant to current issues in optical engineering. This curriculum has been developed and refined for a decade and a half at the University of Arizona’s ...
Numerical Methods in Photonics
1st Edition
By Andrei V. Lavrinenko, Jesper Lægsgaard, Niels Gregersen, Frank Schmidt, Thomas Søndergaard
November 22, 2017
Simulation and modeling using numerical methods is one of the key instruments in any scientific work. In the field of photonics, a wide range of numerical methods are used for studying both fundamental optics and applications such as design, development, and optimization of photonic components. ...