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As data transfer rates increase within the magnetic recording
industry, improvements in device performance and reliability
crucially depend on the thorough understanding of nonlinear
magnetization dynamics at a sub-nanoscale level.
Readers will use this knowledge to develop the required techniques
for design, installation and maintenance of their own fiber optic
systems.
New possibilities have recently emerged for producing optical beams
with complex and intricate structures, and for the non-contact
optical manipulation of matter. This book fully describes the
electromagnetic theory, optical properties, methods and
applications associated with this new technology. Detailed
discussions are given of unique beam characteristics, such as
optical vortices and other wavefront structures, the associated
phase properties and photonic aspects, along with applications
ranging from cold atom manipulation to optically driven
micromachines.
Thoroughly revised and expanded to reflect the substantial changes in the field since its publication in 1978Strong emphasis on how to effectively use software design packages, indispensable to today s lens designerMany new lens design problems and examples - ranging from simple lenses to complex zoom lenses and mirror systems - give insight for both the newcomer and specialist in the field Rudolf Kingslake is regarded as the American father of lens design; his book, not revised since its publication in 1978, is viewed as a classic in the field. Naturally, the area has developed considerably since the book was published, the most obvious changes being the availability of powerful lens design software packages, theoretical advances, and new surface fabrication technologies. This book provides the skills and knowledge to move into the exciting world of contemporary lens design and develop practical lenses needed for the great variety of 21st-century applications. Continuing to focus on fundamental methods and procedures of lens design, this revision by R. Barry Johnson of a classic modernizes symbology and nomenclature, improves conceptual clarity, broadens the study of aberrations, enhances discussion of multi-mirror systems, adds tilted and decentered systems with eccentric pupils, explores use of aberrations in the optimization process, enlarges field flattener concepts, expands discussion of image analysis, includes many new exemplary examples to illustrate concepts, and much more. Optical engineers working in lens design will find this book an invaluable guide to lens design in traditional and emerging areas of application; it is also suited to advanced undergraduate or graduate course in lens design principles and as a self-learning tutorial and reference for the practitioner. Rudolf Kingslake (1903-2003) was a founding faculty member of the Institute of Optics at The University of Rochester (1929) and remained teaching until 1983. Concurrently, in 1937 he became head of the lens design department at Eastman Kodak until his retirement in 1969. Dr. Kingslake published numerous papers, books, and was awarded many patents. He was a Fellow of SPIE and OSA, and an OSA President (1947-48). He was awarded the Progress Medal from SMPTE (1978), the Frederic Ives Medal (1973), and the Gold Medal of SPIE (1980). R. Barry Johnson has been involved for over 40 years in lens
design, optical systems design, and electro-optical systems
engineering. He has been a faculty member at three academic
institutions engaged in optics education and research, co-founder
of the Center for Applied Optics at the University of Alabama in
Huntsville, employed by a number of companies, and provided
consulting services. Dr. Johnson is an SPIE Fellow and Life Member,
OSA Fellow, and an SPIE President (1987). He published numerous
papers and has been awarded many patents. Dr. Johnson was founder
and Chairman of the SPIE Lens Design Working Group (1988-2002), is
an active Program Committee member of the International Optical
Design Conference, and perennial co-chair of the annual SPIE
Current Developments in Lens Design and Optical Engineering
Conference.
The first book on optical OFDM by the leading pioneers in the fieldThe only book to cover error correction codes for optical OFDMGives applications of OFDM to free-space communications, optical access networks, and metro and log haul transports show optical OFDM can be implementedContains introductions to signal processing for optical engineers and optical communication fundamentals for wireless engineers This book gives a coherent and comprehensive introduction to the fundamentals of OFDM signal processing, with a distinctive focus on its broad range of applications. It evaluates the architecture, design and performance of a number of OFDM variations, discusses coded OFDM, and gives a detailed study of error correction codes for access networks, 100 Gb/s Ethernet and future optical networks. The emerging applications of optical OFDM, including single-mode fiber transmission, multimode fiber transmission, free space optical systems, and optical access networks are examined, with particular attention paid to passive optical networks, radio-over-fiber, WiMAX and UWB communications. Written by two of the leading contributors to the field, this book will be a unique reference for optical communications engineers and scientists. Students, technical managers and telecom executives seeking to understand this new technology for future-generation optical networks will find the book invaluable. William Shieh is an associate professor and reader in the electrical and electronic engineering department, The University of Melbourne, Australia. He received his M.S. degree in electrical engineering and Ph.D. degree in physics both from University of Southern California. Ivan Djordjevic is an Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Arizona, Tucson, where he directs the Optical Communications Systems Laboratory (OCSL). His current research interests include optical networks, error control coding, constrained coding, coded modulation, turbo equalization, OFDM applications, and quantum error correction. "This wonderful book is the first one to address the rapidly
emerging optical OFDM field. Written by two leading researchers in
the field, the book is structured to comprehensively cover any
optical OFDM aspect one could possibly think of, from the most
fundamental to the most specialized. The book adopts a coherent
line of presentation, while striking a thoughtful balance between
the various topics, gradually developing the optical-physics and
communication-theoretic concepts required for deep comprehension of
the topic, eventually treating the multiple optical OFDM methods,
variations and applications. In my view this book will remain
relevant for many years to come, and will be increasingly accessed
by graduate students, accomplished researchers as well as
telecommunication engineers and managers keen to attain a
perspective on the emerging role of OFDM in the evolution of
photonic networks." -- "Prof.Moshe Nazarathy, EE Dept., Technion,
Israel Institute of Technology"
This book is a comprehensive contributed volume that aims to
describe and explain the design, fabrication, operating
characteristics, and specific applications of the most popular and
useful types of specialty optical fibers. These "specialty fibers"
include any kind of optical fiber that has been architecturally
manipulated to diverge from a conventional structure. For instance,
metal-coated fibers can be utilized for bandwidth improvement, and
hollow core fibers offer more controllable dispersion for sensitive
medical procedures.
Optical interferometry is used in communications, medical imaging,
astonomy, and structural measurement. With the use of an
interferometer engineers and scientists are able to complete
surface inspections of micromachined surfaces and semiconductors.
Medical technicians are able to give more consise diagnoses with
the employ of interferometers in microscopy, spectroscopy, and
coherent tomography.
Ultrashort Laser Pulse Phenomena serves as an introduction to the
phenomena of ultrashort laser pulses and describes how this
technology can be applied in areas such as spectroscopy, medical
imaging, electromagnetism, optics, and quantum physics. Combining
the principles with experimental techniques, the book serves as a
guide to designing and constructing femtosecond systems.
Optical technology is essential to communications and medical
technology. K.K. Sharma has written a comprehensive volume on
optics. Beginning with introductory ideas and equations, Sharma
takes the reader through the world of optics detailing problems
encountered, advanced subjects, and actual applications. Elegantly
written, this book rigorously examines optics with over 300
illustrations and several problems in each chapter. The book begins
with light propagation in anisotropic media considered much later
in most books. Sharma has started with this because it provides a
more general and beautiful example of light propagation.
This book is a MUST for everyone in and around the optics
community!
Optoelectronics has become an important part of our lives. Wherever
light is used to transmit information, tiny semiconductor devices
are needed to transfer electrical current into optical signals and
vice versa. Examples include light emitting diodes in radios and
other appliances, photodetectors in elevator doors and digital
cameras, and laser diodes that transmit phone calls through glass
fibers. Such optoelectronic devices take advantage of sophisticated
interactions between electrons and light. Nanometer scale
semiconductor structures are often at the heart of modern
optoelectronic devices. Their shrinking size and increasing
complexity make computer simulation an important tool to design
better devices that meet ever rising perfomance requirements. The
current need to apply advanced design software in optoelectronics
follows the trend observed in the 1980's with simulation software
for silicon devices. Today, software for technology computer-aided
design (TCAD) and electronic design automation (EDA) represents a
fundamental part of the silicon industry. In optoelectronics,
advanced commercial device software has emerged recently and it is
expected to play an increasingly important role in the near future.
This book will enable students, device engineers, and researchers
to more effectively use advanced design software in
optoelectronics.
This book provides a unified treatment of the characteristics of
telescopes of all types, both those whose performance is set by
geometrical aberrations and the effect of the atmosphere, and those
diffraction-limited telescopes designed for observations from above
the atmosphere. The emphasis throughout is on basic principles,
such as Fermat's principle, and their application to optical
systems specifically designed to image distant celestial
sources. * Geometrical aberration theory based on Fermat's
principle
Now in its third edition, this classic text covers many aspects of
infrared and Raman spectroscopy that are critical to the chemist
doing structural or compositional analysis. This work includes
practical and theoretical approaches to spectral interpretation as
well as a discussion of experimental techniques. Emphasis is given
to group frequencies, which are studied in detailed discussions,
extensive tables, and over 600 carefully chosen and interpreted
spectral examples. Also featured is a unique treatment of group
frequencies that stresses their mechanical origin. This qualitative
approach to vibrational analysis helps to simplify spectral
interpretation.
The lens is generally the most expensive and least understood part
of any camera. In this book, Rudolf Kingslake traces the historical
development of the various types of lenses from Daguerre's
invention of photography in 1839 through lenses commonly used
today.
Since the 4e appeared, a fast evolution of the field has occurred. The 5e of this classic work provides an up-to-date account of the nonlinear phenomena occurring inside optical fibers, the basis of all our telecommunications infastructure as well as being used in the medical field. Reflecting the big developments in research, this new edition
includes major new content: slow light effects, which offers a
reduction in noise and power consumption and more ordered network
traffic-stimulated Brillouin scattering; vectorial treatment of
highly nonlinear fibers; and a brand new chapter on supercontinuum
generation in optical fibers.
This book provides an in-depth exposition of spin-stand microscopy
of hard disk data which is a new technique recently developed and
extensively tested by the authors of the book. Spin-stand
microscopy is the first magnetic imaging technique where imaging is
performed ex-situ on a rotating disk mounted on a spin-stand. This
technique is one of the fastest scanning-based microscopy
techniques. It is non-invasive and has nano-scale resolution. For
these reasons, it provides unique capabilities for the
visualization of magnetization patterns recorded on hard disks.
This book is self-contained and it covers in sufficient details the
basic facts of magnetic data storage technology, the principles and
theory of spin-stand microscopy, its experimental implementations,
as well as its applications in hard disk diagnostics, imaging of
overwritten patterns, computer forensics of hard disk files, and
data-dependent magnetic thermal relaxations of recorded
magnetization patterns. This book will be a valuable reference for
the magnetic data storage community, magnetic microscopy
professionals as well as engineers and scientists involved in
computer data forensics, commercial data recovery, and the design
of archival data storage systems.
This book covers a wide range of measurement techniques broadly
referred to as Optical Metrology, with emphasis on their
applications to nondestructive testing. If we look separately at
each of the two terms making the generic name Optical Metrology, we
find a link to two of the most distinctive aspects of humans: a
particularly well developed sense of vision and a desire to
classify things using numbers and rules.
Nonlinear optics is the study of the interaction of intense laser
light with matter. The third edition of this textbook has been
rewritten to conform to the standard SI system of units and
includes comprehensively updated material on the latest
developments in the field. Nonlinear Optics appeals to a wide audience of physics, optics,
and electrical engineering students, as well as to working
researchers and engineers. Those in related fields, such as
materials science and chemistry, will also find this book of
particular interest.
"Fundamentals of Optical Waveguides" is an essential resource for
any researcher, professional or student involved in optics and
communications engineering. Any reader interested in designing or
actively working with optical devices must have a firm grasp of the
principles of lightwave propagation. Katsunari Okamoto has
presented this difficult technology clearly and concisely with
several illustrations and equations. Optical theory encompassed in
this reference includes coupled mode theory, nonlinear optical
effects, finite element method, beam propagation method, staircase
concatenation method, along with several central theorems and
formulas.
When the first edition of "Optical Interferometry" was published, interferometry was regarded as a rather esoteric method of making measurements, largely confined to the laboratory. Today, however, besides its use in several fields of research, it has applications in fields as diverse as measurement of length and velocity, sensors for rotation, acceleration, vibration and electrical and magnetic fields, as well as in microscopy and nanotechnology. Most topics are discussed first at a level accessible to anyone
with a basic knowledge of physical optics, then a more detailed
treatment of the topic is undertaken, and finally each topic is
supplemented by a reference list of more than 1000 selected
original publications in total.
Optical fiber telecommunications depend upon light traveling great
distances through optical fibers. As light travels it tends to
disperse and this results in some degree of signal loss. Raman
amplification is a technique that is effective in any fiber to
amplify the signal light as it travels through transmission fibers,
compensating for inevitable signal loss.
The current research into solitons and their use in fiber optic
communications is very important to the future of communications.
Since the advent of computer networking and high speed data
transmission technology people have been striving to develop faster
and more reliable communications media. Optical pulses tend to
broaden over relatively short distances due to dispersion, but
solitons on the other hand are not as susceptible to the effects of
dispersion, and although they are subject to losses due to
attenuation they can be amplified without being received and
re-transmitted.
This book presents, in a unified form, the underlying physical and structural processes that determine the optical behavior of materials. It does this by combining elements from physics, optics, and materials science in a seamless manner, and introducing quantum mechanics when needed. The book groups the characteristics of optical materials into classes with similar behavior. In treating each type of material, the text pays particular attention to atomic composition and chemical makeup, electronic states and band structure, and physical microstructure so that the reader will gain insight into the kinds of materials engineering and processing conditions that are required to produce a material exhibiting a desired optical property. The physical principles are presented on many levels, including a physical explanation, followed by formal mathematical support and examples and methods of measurement. The reader may overlook the equations with no loss of comprehension, or may use the text to find appropriate equations for calculations of optical properties. * Presents the optical properties of metals, insulators,
semiconductors, laser materials, and non-linear materials
Optical fibers have revolutionized telecommunication, becoming the
most widely used and the most efficient device for relaying
information over long distances. While the market for optical fiber
continues to grow, the next stage in the field of communication is
the mass delivery of integrated services, such as home banking,
shopping, internet services, and entertainment using video on
demand. The economies and performance potential will determine the
type of technology likely to succeed in the provision of these
services. But it is already clear that optical fibers will play a
crucial role in communication systems of the future. The
opportunities provided by fiber Bragg gratings are of enormous
importance for the further development of the fiber optic
communication lines as cost-effective and efficient devices of the
future. * Addresses one of the most promising fields for future
development in applied optics
Provides an overview of Fiber Bragg Gratings (FBGs), from fundamentals to applicationsEvaluates the advantages and disadvantages of particular applications, methods and techniquesContains new chapters on sensing, femtosecond laser writing of FBGs and poling of glass and optical fibersIncludes a special version of the photonic simulator PicWave(tm), allowing the reader to make live simulations of many of the example devices presented in the book. This fully revised, updated and expanded second edition covers the substantial advances in the manufacture and use of FBGs in the years since the publication of the pioneering first edition. It presents a comprehensive treatise on FBGs and addresses issues such as the merits of one solution over another; why particular fabrication methods are preferred; and what advantages a user may gain from certain techniques. Beginning with the principles of FBGs, the book progresses to discuss photosensitization of optical fibers, Bragg grating fabrication and theory, properties of gratings, specific applications, sensing technology, glass poling, advances in femtosecond laser writing of Bragg gratings and FBG measurement techniques. In addition to material on telecommunications usage of FBGs, application areas such as fiber lasers and sensors are addressed in greater detail. This special version of Picwave is limited to modelling only the passive fibre devices covered in this book. However the full PicWave package is capable of modelling other non-linear and active devices such as laser diodes and SOAs as discussed in Chapter 8. More information about PicWave can be found at www.photond.com/products/picwave.htm. In addition to researchers, scientists, and graduate students, this book will be of interest to industrial practitioners in the field of fabrication of fiber optic materials and devices. Raman Kashyap, Canada Research Chair holder on Future Photonics
Systems, and Professor at Ecole Polytechnique, University of
Montreal since 2003, has researched optical fibers and devices for
over 30 years. He pioneered the fabrication of FBGs and
applications in telecommunications and photonics. |
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