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Rays, waves and photons : a compendium of foundations and emerging technologies of pure and applied optics /
Rays Waves and Photons presents the foundational concepts of optical science. Written by subject, each topic is presented in a standalone chapter with a brief historical foundation, current developments, and future predictions. With non-technical language, this book provides accessible content with...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Bristol [England] (Temple Circus, Temple Way, Bristol BS1 6HG, UK) :
IOP Publishing,
[2020]
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| Colección: | IOP ebooks. 2020 collection.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction : pleased to meet you
- Acousto-optics : did you hear what I saw?
- Binoculars : from both sides now
- Cameras : got the picture?
- Optical communication : did you get the word?
- Diffraction : diffraction didactations
- Displays : do you see what I see?
- Electro-optics and magneto-optics
- Eye tracking : do you see where I see?
- Fiber optics : an inside job
- Glasses : some are half full
- Holography : is it real or is it a ...?
- Infrared : do you see what I can't?
- Optics institutions : are you institutionalized?
- Interference and interferometers : some constructive thoughts
- Lasers : a coherent discussion
- Lenses : focusing in
- Light : the light of our lives
- Optical lithography : I walk the line
- Medical optics : aaaah
- Microscopes : a little of this and a little of that
- Military optics : homing in
- Mirrors : through one darkly
- Nonlinear optics : outside the lines
- Optical design : the rays on d'etre
- Optics olio : mishmash
- Optical societies : high society
- Polarization : some circular reasoning
- Prisms : an acute discussion, not obtuse
- Radiometry and photometry : a precise and accurate treatment
- Reflection : noitcelfeR
- Refraction : as the light is bent
- Relativity : not Uncle Louie and Aunt Sadie
- Remote sensing : admiration from afar
- Scattering : scattered thoughts
- Scopes : scoping it out
- Solar energy : the Sun is my doing
- Sources : and there was light
- Spectacles : better to see you with
- Spectra of spectroscopy : ROYGBIV
- Speed of light : faster than a speeding bullet
- The stereoscope and stereoscopy : from both sides now
- Telescopes : truly astronomical
- Ultraviolet : aglow in the dark
- One man's glimpse of the future.