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Fixing My Gaze: A Scientist's Journey Into Seeing in Three Dimensions
Fixing My Gaze: A Scientist's Journey Into Seeing in Three Dimensions
by Susan R Barry
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Neuroscientist Susan Barry was born cross-eyed and stereoblind. She thought there was no chance of improvement, that the brains period for development had passed. She was wrong, and thanks to surgery and therapy, she began to see in three dimensions... (read more)

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Wiley Series in Pure and Applied Optics #75: Introduction to Adaptive Lenses
Wiley Series in Pure and Applied Optics #75: Introduction to Adaptive Lenses
by Hongwen Ren
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Presents readers with the basic science, technology, and applications for every type of adaptive lens An adaptive lens is a lens whose shape has been changed to a different focal length by an external stimulus such as pressure, electric field, magnetic... (read more)

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Applications of Nonlinear Fiber Optics
Applications of Nonlinear Fiber Optics
by Govind P. Agrawal
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Thorough update of the bestselling book on how to develop nonlinear fiber optic applications.... (read more)

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Optical Science and Engineering #147: Handbook of Optical and Laser Scanning, Second Edition
Optical Science and Engineering #147: Handbook of Optical and Laser Scanning, Second Edition
by Gerald F. Marshall
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From its initial publication titled Laser Beam Scanning in 1985 to Handbook of Optical and Laser Scanning, now in its second edition, this reference has kept professionals and students at the forefront of optical scanning technology. Carefully and... (read more)

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Sapphire: Material, Manufacturing, Applications (Micro- And Opto-Electronic Materials, Structures, and System)
Sapphire: Material, Manufacturing, Applications (Micro- And Opto-Electronic Materials, Structures, and System)
by Elena R. Dobrovinskaya
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Sapphire: Material, Manufacturing, Applications provides complete coverage of sapphire crystal growth and fabrication, including important information on the physical, mechanical, and chemical properties. This book considers all known methods for the... (read more)

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Computational Imaging and Vision #34: The Theory of the Moira(c) Phenomenon: Volume II Aperiodic Layers
Computational Imaging and Vision #34: The Theory of the Moira(c) Phenomenon: Volume II Aperiodic Layers
by Isaac Amidror
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This book presents for the first time the theory of the moiré phenomenon between aperiodic or random layers. The book provides a full general purpose and application-independent exposition of the subject. Throughout the whole text the book favours a... (read more)

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Optics (4TH 02 Edition)
Optics (4TH 02 Edition)
by Eugene Hecht
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Accurate, authoritative and comprehensive, Optics, Fourth Edition has been revised to provide readers with the most up-to-date coverage of optics. The market leader for over a decade, this book provides a balance of theory and instrumentation, while also... (read more)

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Optics and Photonics #4: Thin-Film Organic Photonics: Molecular Layer Deposition and Applications
Optics and Photonics #4: Thin-Film Organic Photonics: Molecular Layer Deposition and Applications
by Tetsuzo Yoshimura
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Among the many atomic/molecular assembling techniques used to develop artificial materials, molecular layer deposition (MLD) continues to receive special attention as the next-generation growth technique for organic thin-film materials used in photonics... (read more)

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Vision and Displays for Military and Security Applications: The Advanced Deployable Day/Night Simulation Project
Vision and Displays for Military and Security Applications: The Advanced Deployable Day/Night Simulation Project
by Keith K. Niall
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Vision and Displays for Military and Security Applications presents recent advances in projection technologies and associated simulation technologies for military and security applications. Specifically, this book covers night vision simulation, semi... (read more)

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The Stationary Semiconductor Device Equations (Computational Microelectronics)
The Stationary Semiconductor Device Equations (Computational Microelectronics)
by P. A. Markowich
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The static semiconductor device problem is treated in an "applied mathematics" way. Qualitative properties, e.g. existence and uniqueness of solutions, and quantitative properties, particularly the structure of steady state solutions, are analysed... (read more)

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Color for Science, Art and Technology
Color for Science, Art and Technology
by K. Nassau
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The aim of this book is to assemble a series of chapters, written by experts in their fields, covering the basics of color - and then some more. In this way, readers are supplied with almost anything they want to know about color outside their own area... (read more)

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Quantum Computation and Quantum Communication: Theory and Experiments
Quantum Computation and Quantum Communication: Theory and Experiments
by Mladen Pavičić
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The field of quantum computing has experienced rapid development and many different experimental and theoretical groups have emerged worldwide.This book presents the key elements of quantum computation and communication theories and their implementation... (read more)

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Optical near Fields: Introduction to Classical and Quantum Theories of Electromagnetic Phenomena at the Nanoscale
Optical near Fields: Introduction to Classical and Quantum Theories of Electromagnetic Phenomena at the Nanoscale
by Motoichi Ohtsu
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Using the thin film of light, the optical near field, that is localized on the surface of a nanometric material has removed the diffraction limit as a barrier to imaging on the nano- and atomic scales. But a paradigm shift in the concepts of optics and... (read more)

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Laser Wakefield Electron Acceleration: A Novel Approach Employing Supersonic Microjets and Few-Cycle Laser Pulses (Springer Theses)
Laser Wakefield Electron Acceleration: A Novel Approach Employing Supersonic Microjets and Few-Cycle Laser Pulses (Springer Theses)
by Karl Schmid
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This thesis covers the few-cycle laser-driven acceleration of electrons in a laser-generated plasma. This process, known as laser wakefield acceleration (LWFA), relies on strongly driven plasma waves for the generation of accelerating gradients in... (read more)

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Photonic Crystals: Physics and Technology
Photonic Crystals: Physics and Technology
by C. (edt) Sibilia
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The aim of the work is give an overview of the activity in the field of Photonic Crystal developed in the frame of COST P11 action . The main objective of the COST P11 action was to unify and coordinate national efforts aimed at studying linear and... (read more)

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Nanophotonics with Surface Plasmons. Advances in Nano-Optics and Nano-Photonics.
Nanophotonics with Surface Plasmons. Advances in Nano-Optics and Nano-Photonics.
by Vladimir M. Shalaev
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Current developments in optical technologies are being directed toward nanoscale devices with subwavelength dimensions, in which photons are manipulated on the nanoscale. Although light is clearly the fastest means to send information to and from the... (read more)

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Springer Series in Optical Sciences #106: Coherent Sources of Xuv Radiation: Soft X-Ray Lasers and High-Order Harmonic Generation
Springer Series in Optical Sciences #106: Coherent Sources of Xuv Radiation: Soft X-Ray Lasers and High-Order Harmonic Generation
by Pierre Jaegle
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Extreme ultraviolet radiation, also referred to as soft X-rays or XUV, offers very special optical properties. The X-UV refractive index of matter is such that normal reflection cannot take place on polished surfaces whereas beam transmission through one... (read more)

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Springer Series in Optical Sciences #1006: High Power Diode Lasers
Springer Series in Optical Sciences #1006: High Power Diode Lasers
by Reinhart Poprawe
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In a very comprehensive way this book covers all aspects of high power diode laser technology for materials processing. Basics as well as new application oriented results obtained in a government funded national German research project are described in... (read more)

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Optoelectronic Devices: Advanced Simulation and Analysis
Optoelectronic Devices: Advanced Simulation and Analysis
by Joachim Piprek
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Optoelectronic devices transform electrical signals into optical signals (and vice versa) by utilizing the interaction of electrons and light. Advanced software tools for the design and analysis of such devices have been developed in recent years... (read more)

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Coherent Dynamics of Complex Quantum Systems (Texts and Monographs in Physics)
Coherent Dynamics of Complex Quantum Systems (Texts and Monographs in Physics)
by Vladimir M Akulin
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Coherent Dynamics of Complex Quantum Systems is aimed at senior-level undergraduate students in the areas of atomic, molecular, and laser physics, physical chemistry, quantum optics and quantum informatics. It should help them put particular problems in... (read more)

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