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Book cover for Yuli V. Nazarov: Quantum Noise in Mesoscopic Physics

Quantum Noise in Mesoscopic Physics

Yuli V. Nazarov
Hardcover - $533.95

The field of quantum noise in mesoscopic physics has experienced intensive development for more than a decade, and there is as yet no sign of a slow-down. This book presents a collection of reviews in which the leading research teams summarize their ...

Book cover for Isaac Newton: Optik

Optik : Oder Abhandlung A1/4ber Spiegelungen, Brechungen, Beugungen Und Farben Des Lichts

Isaac Newton
Paperback - $103.95



Book cover for Donald C. OShea: Elements of Modern Optical Design

Elements of Modern Optical Design

Donald C. OShea
Hardcover - $354.95



Book cover for K. Patorski: Handbook of the Moire Fringe Technique

Handbook of the Moire Fringe Technique

K. Patorski
Hardcover - $548.95

Moiré fringe techniques have expanded considerably over the past decade and are now established as important metrological tools. The main reason for this flourishing expansion is the use of the moiré fringe method in the common availabi ...

Book cover for K. -E Peiponen: Dispersion, Complex Analysis and Optical Spectroscopy

Dispersion, Complex Analysis and Optical Spectroscopy : Classical Theory

K. -E Peiponen
Hardcover - $351.95

This book is devoted to dispersion theory in linear and nonlinear optics. Dispersion relations and methods of analysis in optical spectroscopy are derived with the aid of complex analysis. The book introduces the mathematical basis and derivations of ...

Book cover for Jan Perina: Quantum Optics and Fundamentals of Physics

Quantum Optics and Fundamentals of Physics

Jan Perina
Hardcover - $516.95

This book deals with the contemporary development of quantum theory from the point of view of quantum optics. The fundamentals of quantum theory are presented, with particular attention being given to the quantum theory of measurement. General cohere ...

Book cover for Sidney Perkowitz: Empire of Light

Empire of Light : A History of Discovery in Science & Art

Sidney Perkowitz
Paper Textbook - $29.95

Light surrounds us and determines our existence. Scientists have long struggled to comprehend its physical nature - an enigmatic mix of wave and quantum particle - as well as how it affects us biologically. It remains an enduring mystery - yet is als ...

Book cover for Jan Petykiewicz: Wave Optics

Wave Optics

Jan Petykiewicz
Hardcover - $840.95

In this volume the properties of light waves in isotropic and anisotropic media are discussed on the basis of the electromagnetic nature of light. Diffraction of light is described for scalar waves and electromagnetic waves using theories like Kirchh ...

Book cover for Vincent Pieribone: Aglow in the Dark

Aglow in the Dark : The Revolutionary Science of Biofluorescence

Vincent Pieribone
Paperback - $27.95

In the early 1960s, in a small shack on the Washington coast, a young, self-educated Japanese scientist performed an experiment to determine what made a certain jellyfish glow. The substance he discovered, green fluorescent protein, would revolutioni ...

Book cover for E. R. Pike: Photons and Quantum Fluctuations

Photons and Quantum Fluctuations

E. R. Pike
Hardcover - $359.95

Based on a special ONR seminar, Photons and Quantum Fluctuations draws together discoveries in nonclassical or "silent" light for research workers and postgraduates in quantum optics. With nonclassical light, noise is reduced in amplitude below that ...

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