Discovering Light

Discovering Light
Author: Sara Aissati
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2021-09-30
Genre: Light
ISBN: 9781510639355

What is light? Where are optics and photonics present in our lives and in nature? What lies behind different optical phenomena? What is an optical instrument? How does the eye resemble an optical instrument? How can we explain human vision? This book, written by a group of young scientists, answers these questions and many more.

Exploring Laser Light

Exploring Laser Light
Author: Thomas Kallard
Publisher:
Total Pages: 320
Release: 1977
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN:

The low-power helium-neon (He-Ne) gas laser is an invaluable and dependable educational tool, used at all levels from high school physics to complex university installations. Exploring Laser Light is a manual of optics experiments performed with He-Ne lasers, for use in lecture demonstrations, teaching laboratories, and home study experimentation. Key highlights: --Offers a broad selection of the most robust optical principles and techniques --Explores fresh and simplified experimental methods --Rather than offering a rigid approach, the range and choice of optical bypaths covered point the way for readers --To help the experimenter, schematic drawings are included, alongside relevant formulas and numerical values for parameters --The cost of required apparatus is deliberately kept to a minimum Exploring Laser Light is the ideal resource for the home experimenter as well as the high school physics teacher. Undergraduates to advanced graduate students and faculty in optics, physics will as well benefit.

Laser Light Scattering

Laser Light Scattering
Author: Charles S. Johnson
Publisher: Dover Publications
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1995-01-09
Genre: Science
ISBN: 9780486683287

Light scattering has provided an important method for characterizing macro-molecules for at least three decades. Now, through the use of intense, coherent laser light and efficient spectrum analyzers and autocorrelators, experiments in the frequency and time domains can be used to study molecular motion, e.g. diffusion and flow and other dynamic processes, as well as the equilibrium properties of solutions. As a result, laser light scattering has become a powerful form of spectroscopy with applications in physics, biochemistry, and other fields. This volume, which employs a relatively simple approach in order to reach the widest audience, focuses on two main topics: classical light scattering (scattering intensity, concentration dependence, size dependence, and polydispersity) and dynamic light scattering (time and frequency dependence, translational diffusion, directed flow, rotational motion, and more). A series of useful appendixes and a list of references complete this concise, accessible work, a valuable resource for physicists, chemists, and anyone interested in the increasingly important field of laser light scattering.

Controlling the Quantum World

Controlling the Quantum World
Author: National Research Council
Publisher: National Academies Press
Total Pages: 245
Release: 2007-06-21
Genre: Science
ISBN: 0309102707

As part of the Physics 2010 decadal survey project, the Department of Energy and the National Science Foundation requested that the National Research Council assess the opportunities, over roughly the next decade, in atomic, molecular, and optical (AMO) science and technology. In particular, the National Research Council was asked to cover the state of AMO science, emphasizing recent accomplishments and identifying new and compelling scientific questions. Controlling the Quantum World, discusses both the roles and challenges for AMO science in instrumentation; scientific research near absolute zero; development of extremely intense x-ray and laser sources; exploration and control of molecular processes; photonics at the nanoscale level; and development of quantum information technology. This book also offers an assessment of and recommendations about critical issues concerning maintaining U.S. leadership in AMO science and technology.

Optics, Light and Lasers

Optics, Light and Lasers
Author: Dieter Meschede
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 563
Release: 2017-06-06
Genre: Science
ISBN: 3527413316

Dieses Buch ist genau richtig für Einsteiger in das Fachgebiet. Schwierige Effekte werden direkt und leicht verständlich präsentiert. Diese aktualisierte, erweiterte Auflage bietet neue Kapitel zu neuen Themen wie Plasmonik, Frequenzkämme auf Femto-Ebene und Quantenkaskadenlaser

Photonics

Photonics
Author: Ralf Menzel
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 895
Release: 2013-04-18
Genre: Science
ISBN: 3662045214

Deals with the fundamental properties of photon and light beams, both experimentally and theoretically. It covers the essentials of linear interactions and most of the nonlinear interactions between light and matter in both the transparent and absorbing cases. About 4000 references open access to original literature.

Harnessing Light

Harnessing Light
Author: National Research Council
Publisher: National Academies Press
Total Pages: 358
Release: 1998-09-25
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 0309059917

Optical science and engineering affect almost every aspect of our lives. Millions of miles of optical fiber carry voice and data signals around the world. Lasers are used in surgery of the retina, kidneys, and heart. New high-efficiency light sources promise dramatic reductions in electricity consumption. Night-vision equipment and satellite surveillance are changing how wars are fought. Industry uses optical methods in everything from the production of computer chips to the construction of tunnels. Harnessing Light surveys this multitude of applications, as well as the status of the optics industry and of research and education in optics, and identifies actions that could enhance the field's contributions to society and facilitate its continued technical development.

Exploring the World with the Laser

Exploring the World with the Laser
Author: Dieter Meschede
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 799
Release: 2018-01-02
Genre: Science
ISBN: 3319643460

This edition contains carefully selected contributions by leading scientists in high-resolution laser spectroscopy, quantum optics and laser physics. Emphasis is given to ultrafast laser phenomena, implementations of frequency combs, precision spectroscopy and high resolution metrology. Furthermore, applications of the fundamentals of quantum mechanics are widely covered. This book is dedicated to Nobel prize winner Theodor W. Hänsch on the occasion of his 75th birthday. The contributions are reprinted from a topical collection published in Applied Physics B, 2016. Selected contributions are available open access under a CC BY 4.0 license via link.springer.com. Please see the copyright page for further details.