Fundamental Principles of Holography -- Digital Holography -- Digital Holographic Interferometry (DHI) -- Digital Holographic Microscopy -- Special Techniques and Applications -- Speckle Metrology.This book presents a self-contained treatment of the principles and major applications of digital hologram recording and numerical reconstruction (Digital Holography). The first part deals with optica…
Nonlinear Propagation Theory for Few-to-Mono Optical-Cycle Pulses beyond the Slowly-Varying-Envelope Approximation (SVEA) -- Generation of Ultrabroadband Optical Pulses -- Active Chirp Compensation for Ultrabroadband Optical Pulses -- Amplitude and Phase Characterization of Few-to-Mono Optical-Cycle Pulses -- Feedback Field Control for Optical Pulse Generation in the Monocycle Region -- Field M…
to Lidar -- Polarization in Lidar -- Lidar and Multiple Scattering -- Lidar and Atmospheric Aerosol Particles -- High Spectral Resolution Lidar -- Visibility and Cloud Lidar -- Differential-Absorption Lidar for Ozone and Industrial Emissions -- Differential-Absorption Lidar for Water Vapor and Temperature Profiling -- Raman Lidar -- Temperature Measurements with Lidar -- Resonance Scattering Li…
Art in the Service of Science -- Laser Cleaning of Paper -- Laser Cleaning of Metal -- Laser Cleaning Miscellaneous -- Case Studies -- Side Effects -- Pigments, Conservation Layers -- Fundamentals, Innovative Methods -- Working Groups and Networks -- Cleaning Stations and Process Control for Practise -- Spectroscopy for Monitoring and Identification -- Laser Diagnostics.Since 1995, when Costas …
The Electromagnetic Field -- Geometrical Optics -- Wave Optics -- Polarization -- Basic Properties of Optical Resonators -- The Fabry Perot Resonator -- Passive Open Resonators -- Stable Resonators -- Resonators on the Stability Limits -- Unstable Resonators -- Resonators with Internal Optical Elements -- Open Resonators with Gain -- The Active Medium -- Output Power of Laser Resonators -- Infl…
Electrodynamic Properties of a General Physical System -- General Properties of the Linear Optical Response -- Kramers-Kronig Relations and Sum Rules in Linear Optics -- General Properties of the Nonlinear Optical Response -- Kramers-Kronig Relations and Sum Rules in Nonlinear Optics -- Kramers-Kronig Relations and Sum Rules for Harmonic-Generation Processes -- Kramers-Kronig Relations and Sum …
Orders of Magnitude in Optics -- Electromagnetic Waves -- Geometrical Optics -- Polarized Light—Laws of Reflection -- Birefringence -- Interference -- Diffraction -- Index of Refraction -- Lasers -- Nonlinear Optics -- Raman-Brillouin-Rayleigh Diffusion -- Guided Optics -- Fourier Analysis and Fourier Transform.Since the discovery of the laser in 1960 and optical fibers in 1970, optics has un…
Material Science -- Resumé of Semiconductor Physics -- Realisation of Potential Barriers -- Electronic Device Principles -- Heterostructure Bipolar Transistors - HBTs -- Hetero Field Effect Transistors (HFETs) -- Tunneling Phenomena -- Optoelectronics -- Integration -- Outlook.Quantum size effects are becoming increasingly important in microelectronics as the dimensions of the structures shrin…
Soft X-Ray Spectroscopy of Astrophysical Plasmas (Steven M. Kahn): Classical and Quantum Radiation Theory -- The Structure of Multi-Electron Atoms -- Electron-Ion Collisional Processes -- Discrete Line Diagnostics -- Concluding Remarks -- Instruments for Nuclear Astrophysics (Peter von Ballmoos): Introduction -- Interaction of High-Energy Photons with Matter -- Detectors -- The Instruments for …
Lectures -- Investigating Physical Systems with Optical Spectroscopy -- Light-Matter Interactions on the Femtosecond Time Scale -- Photons and Photon Statistics: From Incandescent Light to Lasers -- Carrier-Wave Nonlinear Optics -- Carotenoid Excited States-Photophysics, Ultrafast Dynamics and Photosynthetic Functions -- Spectroscopy of Quantum Wells and Superlattices -- Lasers for Frontier Spe…