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The Optical Papers of Isaac Newton: Volume 1, the Optical Lectures 1670 1672: Volume 1. the Optical Lectures 1670 1672 (Optical Papers of Isaac Newton)
The Optical Papers of Isaac Newton: Volume 1, the Optical Lectures 1670 1672: Volume 1. the Optical Lectures 1670 1672 (Optical Papers of Isaac Newton)
by Alan E. Shapiro
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The first volume of a three-volume complete edition of Newton's optical papers contains his Optical Lectures, delivered at Cambridge University between 1670 and 1672. The Lectures is Newton's first major scientific treatise, and consequently it... (read more)

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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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The Day-Glo Brothers: The True Story of Bob and Joe Switzer's Bright Ideas and Brand-New Colors
The Day-Glo Brothers: The True Story of Bob and Joe Switzer's Bright Ideas and Brand-New Colors
by Chris Barton
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Everyone's a New Yorker on Thanksgiving Day, when young and old rise early to see what giant new balloons will fill the skies for Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade.  Who first invented these "upside-down puppets?"  Tony Sarg -- puppeteer... (read more)

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Optically Polarized Atoms: Understanding Light-Atom Interactions
Optically Polarized Atoms: Understanding Light-Atom Interactions
by Marcis Auzinsh
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Optically Polarized Atoms is addressed at upper-level undergraduate and graduate students involved in research in atomic, molecular, and optical Physics. It will also be useful to researchers practicing in this field. It gives an intuitive, yet... (read more)

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Computational Fourier Optics: A MATLAB Tutorial
Computational Fourier Optics: A MATLAB Tutorial
by David G. Voelz
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" Computational Fourier Optics is a text that shows the reader in a tutorial form how to implement Fourier optical theory and analytic methods on the computer. A primary objective is to give students of Fourier optics the capability of programming their... (read more)

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Springer Series in Optical Sciences #117: Progress in Nano-Electro-Optics V: Nanophotonic Fabrications, Devices, Systems, and Their Theoretical Bases
Springer Series in Optical Sciences #117: Progress in Nano-Electro-Optics V: Nanophotonic Fabrications, Devices, Systems, and Their Theoretical Bases
by M. Ohtsu
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Focusing on nanophotonics, which has been proposed by M. Ohtsu in 1993, this volume begins with theories for operation principles of characteristic nanophotonic devices and continues with novel optical near field phenomena for fabricating nanophotonic... (read more)

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Thin Film Growth: Physics, Materials Science and Applications
Thin Film Growth: Physics, Materials Science and Applications
by Z. Cao
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Thin-film technology is used in many applications such as microelectronics, optics, magnetics, hard and corrosion resistant coatings and micromechanics. This book provides a review of the theory and techniques for the deposition of thin films. It will... (read more)

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Modern Introduction to Surface Plasmons: Theory, Mathematica Modeling, and Applications
Modern Introduction to Surface Plasmons: Theory, Mathematica Modeling, and Applications
by Dror Sarid
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Introducing graduate students in physics, optics, materials science and electrical engineering to surface plasmons, this book also covers guided modes at planar interfaces of metamaterials with negative refractive index. The physics of localized and... (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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Dynamic Light Scattering: With Applications to Chemistry, Biology, and Physics
Dynamic Light Scattering: With Applications to Chemistry, Biology, and Physics
by Bruce J. Berne
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This comprehensive introduction to principles underlying laser light scattering focuses on time dependence of fluctuations in fluid systems. It also serves as introduction to theory of time correlation functions, with chapters on projection operator... (read more)

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The Springfield Gas Machine: Illuminating Industry and Leisure, 1860s-1920s
The Springfield Gas Machine: Illuminating Industry and Leisure, 1860s-1920s
by Donald W. Linebaugh
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    Developed just after the close of the Civil War, the Springfield Gas Machine was a unique commercial and domestic gas lighting system marketed for use in homes and businesses outside of a city’s gas works. The self-contained... (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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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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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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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 #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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