Books in the Springer Series in Optical Sciences series

Spanning physics, chemistry, proteomics, photosynthesis and spintronics, this book describes photon generation processes from nuclear reactions, electron motion and discrete quantum transitions, and shows the use of photons in modern natural and life sciences.

A presentation of the most advanced application of optical near-field microscopy to studies of fine metallic structures and related surface plasmons.

This text, the standard of the field, includes an overview of such topics as the theory of image and contrast formation as well as discussion of recent progress in the field, especially in the areas of aberration corrector and energy filtering.

A detailed and comprehensive account of the engineering of the world's first nonimaging Fresnel lens solar concentrator. The book shows the reader how to find his or her own optical solution using the rules and methodologies covering the design and the assessment of the nonimaging lens.

Optical Micro-Resonators are an exciting new field of research that has gained prominence in the past few years due to the emergence of new fabrication technologies.

Starting from first principles, this reference treats the theoretical aspects of quantum optics. It develops a unified approach for determining the dynamics of a two-level and three-level atom in combinations of quantized field under certain conditions.

Written by leading experts in optical radar, or lidar, this book brings all the recent practices up-to-date. Its broad cross-disciplinary scope should appeal to scientists ranging from the view of optical sciences to environmental engineers. Optical remote sensing has matured to become a lead method for cross-disciplinary research.

These techniques have stimulated further development of the optical imaging theory, including 3-dimensional microscopy imaging theory, the theory of imaging with ultrashort pulsed beam illumination and the aberration theory for high numerical-aperture objectives.

Most of the texts available on lasers deal with laser engineering and laser applications, only a few of them treating theoretical aspects of the laser at an advanced level. Introduction to Laser Physics provides an introduction to the essential physics of quantum electronics and lasers.

This book presents the state-of-the-art of Terahertz spectroscopy. Over the last decade the field of terahertz spectroscopy has developed into one of the most rapidly growing fields of spectroscopy with large impact across a wide range of scientific disciplines.