How it Works Dealing in simple language with steam, electricity, light,heat, sound, hydraulics, optics, etc., and with their applications to apparatus in common use

How it Works Dealing in simple language with steam, electricity, light,heat, sound, hydraulics, optics, etc., and with their applications to apparatus in common use Review

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Planning Fiber Optics Networks

Planning Fiber Optics Networks Review

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Plan and implement fiber optic networks

Effectively design and deploy bandwidth-rich networks for major types of data traffic. Covering both short-reach and long-haul networks, Planning Fiber Optic Networks provides full details on all major fiber optic parameters and includes appropriate background theory and design calculations. You will find guidelines for optimizing SONET/SDH and Ethernet networks, setting up network topologies, minimizing signal loss and impairments, and using dark fiber. Real-world examples are included throughout this practical guide.

• Understand signal propagation in a single-mode fiber
• Plan an optical loss budget
• Maintain an acceptable optical signal-to-noise ratio (OSNR)
• Learn about the effects of chromatic dispersion (CD) and polarization mode dispersion (PMD)
• Expand fiber capacity using wavelength division multiplexing (WDM)
• Reduce fiber nonlinear impairments
• Perform fiber characterization to ensure optimal quality and performance
• Test Ethernet and SONET/SDH networks
• Plan point-to-point and ring fiber topologies
• Lease or purchase dark fiber

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Try again, or, the trials and triumphs of Harry West: a story for young folks

Try again, or, the trials and triumphs of Harry West: a story for young folks Review

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This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.

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Introductory Quantum Optics

Introductory Quantum Optics Review

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This elementary introduction to the subject of quantum optics, the study of the quantum mechanical nature of light and its interaction with matter, is almost entirely concerned with the quantized electromagnetic field. The text is designed for upper-level undergraduates taking courses in quantum optics who have already taken a course in quantum mechanics, and for first- and second- year graduate students.

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Handbook of Optics, Third Edition Volume IV: Optical Properties of Materials, Nonlinear Optics, Quantum Optics (set)

Handbook of Optics, Third Edition Volume IV: Optical Properties of Materials, Nonlinear Optics, Quantum Optics (set) Review

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The most comprehensive and up-to-date optics resource available

Prepared under the auspices of the Optical Society of America, the five carefully architected and cross-referenced volumes of the Handbook of Optics, Third Edition, contain everything a student, scientist, or engineer requires to actively work in the field. From the design of complex optical systems to world-class research and development methods, this definitive publication provides unparalleled access to the fundamentals of the discipline and its greatest minds.

Individual chapters are written by the world's most renowned experts who explain, illustrate, and solve the entire field of optics. Each volume contains a complete chapter listing for the entire Handbook, extensive chapter glossaries, and a wealth of references. This pioneering work offers unprecedented coverage of optics data, techniques, and applications.

Volume IV covers optical properties of materials, nonlinear optics, and quantum optics.

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Digital Optical Communications (Optics and Photonics)

Digital Optical Communications (Optics and Photonics) Review

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The need for advanced transmission techniques over long haul optically amplified communications has prompted a convergence of digital and optical communications. Digital Optical Communications explores the practical applications of this union and applies digital modulation techniques to optical communications systems.

After reviewing the fundamentals of modern communications, the book focuses on enhancements to digital technology that are leading to greater effectiveness within ultra-high capacity networks. It highlights the use of communication techniques in both optical transmission systems and networks, such as binary and quadrature amplitude shift keying, differential shift keying, continuous phase shift keying, and multi-level modulation. The author minimizes unwieldy mathematical analysis and instead emphasizes operation principles. Supplemented with case studies and numerous examples, the book provides the theoretical foundations and technical developments required to engineer faster transmissions.

A practical survey of advanced aspects of modulation techniques, this book provides a fundamental understanding of the application of digital communication techniques to optical communication technology.

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Handbook of Plastic Optics

Handbook of Plastic Optics Review

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A coherent overview of the current status of injection molded optics, describing in detail all aspects of plastic optics, from design issues to production technology and quality control. This updated second edition is supplemented by a chapter on the equipment and process of injection wells as well as a look at recent applications.
The contributors, each one a leading expert in their discipline, have either a background in or strong ties to the industry, thus combining a large amount of practical experience.
With its focus firmly set on practical applications, this is an indispensable reference for all those working in optics research and development.

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Technician's Guide to Fiber Optics, 4E

Technician's Guide to Fiber Optics, 4E Review

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An excellent primer for students beginning to study the subject, this current edition provides a practical, real-world perspective on the fundamentals of fiber optic technology and optical communications. It examines the reasons that optical fibers are the preferred communications medium, surpassing copper wire in all performance measures. A thorough explanation of how fibers work is offered, as well as useful coverage of other related optical components and how those components fit into system-level applications. Premises (LAN), metro, 10G Ethernet, and long-haul applications are also briefly surveyed.

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Introduction to Nonlinear Optics

Introduction to Nonlinear Optics Review

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Since the early days of nonlinear optics in the 1960s, the field has expanded dramatically, and is now a vast and vibrant field with countless technological applications. Providing a gentle introduction to the principles of the subject, this textbook is ideal for graduate students starting their research in this exciting area. After basic ideas have been outlined, the book offers a thorough analysis of second harmonic generation and related second-order processes, before moving on to third-order effects, the nonlinear optics of short optical pulses and coherent effects such as electromagnetically-induced transparency. A simplified treatment of high harmonic generation is presented at the end. More advanced topics, such as the linear and nonlinear optics of crystals, the tensor nature of the nonlinear coefficients and their quantum mechanical representation, are confined to specialist chapters so that readers can focus on basic principles before tackling these more difficult aspects of the subject.

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Modern Optical Engineering, 4th Ed.

Modern Optical Engineering, 4th Ed. Review

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The Latest Advances in Optical Engineering and Lens Technology

Long-established as the definitive optics text and reference, Modern Optical Engineering has been completely revised and updated to equip you with all the latest optical and lens advances. The Fourth Edition now contains cutting-edge information on optical engineering theory, design, and practice, including new chapters on ray tracing, optical system design, and third-order aberration theory.

Written by the renowned optical scientist Warren J. Smith, this state-of-the-art guide provides unsurpassed coverage of image formation, basic optical devices, image evaluation, fabrication and testing methods, and more. Comprehensive and up-to-date, Modern Optical Engineering features:

• The latest information on optical engineering theory, design, and practice
• Over 150 detailed illustrations
• New to this edition: new coverage of ray tracing, optical system design, and third-order aberration theory; new lens designs; new optical design software; and new problems and exercises

  Inside This Updated Optical Engineering Classic

  • Image formation • Aberrations • Prisms and mirrors • The eye • Stops and apertures • Optical materials • Interference coatings • Radiometry and photometry • Basic optical devices • Optical systems • Ray tracing • Third-order aberration theory • Image evaluation • Design of optical systems • 44 lens designs • Optics fabrication and testing

  
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Introduction to Modern Optics (Dover Books on Physics)

Introduction to Modern Optics (Dover Books on Physics) Review

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A complete basic undergraduate-level course in modern optics for students in physics, technology and engineering. The first half deals with classical physical optics; the second, the quantum nature of light. Many applications of the laser to optics are integrated throughout the text. Problems and answers. 170 illustrations.

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Eye and Brain

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Since the publication of the first edition in 1966, Eye and Brain has established itself worldwide as an essential introduction to the basic phenomena of visual perception. In this book, Richard L. Gregory offers clear explanations of how we see brightness, movement, color, and objects, and he explores the phenomena of visual illusions to establish principles about how perception normally works and why it sometimes fails. Although successive editions have incorporated new discoveries and ideas, Gregory completely revised and updated the book for this publication, adding more than thirty new illustrations. The phenomena of illusion continue to be a major theme in the book, in which the author makes a new attempt to provide a comprehensive classification system. There are also new sections on what babies see and how they learn to see, on motion perception, and tantalizing glimpses of the relationship between vision and consciousness and of the impact of new brain imaging techniques. In addition, the presentation of the text and illustrations has been improved by the larger format and new page design. The thousands of readers of the previous editions of Eye and Brain will find this new revised edition even more attractive and enthralling.

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Optical Coherence and Quantum Optics

Optical Coherence and Quantum Optics Review

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The advent of lasers in the 1960s led to the development of many new fields in optical physics. This book is a systematic treatment of one of these fields--the broad area that deals with the coherence and fluctuation of light. The authors begin with a review of probability theory and random processes, and follow this with a thorough discussion of optical coherence theory within the framework of classical optics. They next treat the theory of photoelectric detection of light and photoelectric correlation. They then discuss in some detail quantum systems and effects. The book closes with two chapters devoted to laser theory and one on the quantum theory of nonlinear optics. The sound introduction to coherence theory and the quantum nature of light and the chapter-end exercises will appeal to graduate students and newcomers to the field. Researchers will find much of interest in the new results on coherence-induced spectral line shifts, nonclassical states of light, higher-order squeezing, and quantum effects of down-conversion. Written by two of the world's most highly regarded optical physicists, this book is required reading of all physicists and engineers working in optics.

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Optics Made Clear: The Nature of Light And How We Use It (SPIE Press Monograph Vol. PM163)

Optics Made Clear: The Nature of Light And How We Use It (SPIE Press Monograph Vol. PM163) Review

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Have you wondered why the sky is blue? Why the sunset is red? How hummingbirds show us their many colors? Why the road ahead sometimes seems to have water on it, when it does not? Have you wondered how telescopes work to give a magnified image of distant objects? How do microscopes provide a magnified image of close objects? How do spectroscopes, eye glasses, cameras, binoculars, and similar instruments work? How do the simple rear view mirrors in cars dim and provide wide fields of view? In this book, William L. Wolfe attempts to describe many of the natural phenomena caused by light, and the optical devices that use it in terms everyone can understand.

This book is divided into five major sections. The first is a description of the basic phenomena of optics; the second includes basic optical components and instruments; the third is all about natural optical phenomena; and the fourth part is a collection of applications. The fifth contains descriptions of the above-mentioned great steps in our understanding of the world around us that are directly related to optics.

Contents

- Introduction

- The Basics

- Components and Instruments

- Natural Optical Phenomena

- Applications

- Critical Steps in Physics Involving Light

- Glossary

- Appendix A: Sizes of Things

- Appendix B: Information Sources

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Modern Classical Optics (Oxford Master Series in Atomic, Optical and Laser Physics)

Modern Classical Optics (Oxford Master Series in Atomic, Optical and Laser Physics) Review

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Praised as 'one of the best new optics books seen for some time', this book will provide a unique presentation of classical optics from the modern perspective. Written for advanced undergraduate students, the text stands out by its readability and stimulating discussions, close ties to experimental physics, and excellent choice of worked problem sets.

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Statistical Optics (Wiley Classics Library)

Statistical Optics (Wiley Classics Library) Review

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The Wiley Classics Library consists of selected books that have become recognized classics in their respective fields. With these new unabridged and inexpensive editions, Wiley hopes to extend the life of these important works by making them available to future generations of mathematicians and scientists.
Currently available in the Series:

T. W. Anderson
The Statistical Analysis of Time Series
T. S. Arthanari & Yadolah Dodge
Mathematical Programming in Statistics
Emil Artin
Geometric Algebra
Norman T. J. Bailey
The Elements of Stochastic Processes
with Applications to the Natural Sciences
Robert G. Bartle
The Elements of Integration and
Lebesgue Measure
George E. P. Box & Norman R. Draper
Evolutionary Operation: A Statistical Method for Process Improvement
George E. P. Box & George C. Tiao
Bayesian Inference in Statistical Analysis
R. W. Carter
Finite Groups of Lie Type: Conjugacy Classes
and Complex Characters
R. W. Carter
Simple Groups of Lie Type
William G. Cochran & Gertrude M. Cox
Experimental Designs, Second Edition
Richard Courant
Differential and Integral Calculus, Volume I
RIchard Courant
Differential and Integral Calculus, Volume II
Richard Courant & D. Hilbert
Methods of Mathematical Physics, Volume I
Richard Courant & D. Hilbert
Methods of Mathematical Physics, Volume II

D. R. Cox
Planning of Experiments
Harold S. M. Coxeter
Introduction to Geometry, Second Edition
Charles W. Curtis & Irving Reiner
Representation Theory of Finite Groups and
Associative Algebras
Charles W. Curtis & Irving Reiner
Methods of Representation Theory
with Applications to Finite Groups
and Orders, Volume I
Charles W. Curtis & Irving Reiner
Methods of Representation Theory
with Applications to Finite Groups
and Orders, Volume II
Cuthbert Daniel
Fitting Equations to Data: Computer Analysis of
Multifactor Data, Second Edition
Bruno de Finetti
Theory of Probability, Volume I
Bruno de Finetti
Theory of Probability, Volume 2
W. Edwards Deming
Sample Design in Business Research

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Modern Geometrical Optics

Modern Geometrical Optics Review

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From basic terms and concepts to advanced optimization techniques-a complete, practical introduction to modern geometrical optics Most books on geometrical optics present only matrix methods. Modern Geometrical Optics, although it covers matrix methods, emphasizes y-nu ray tracing methods, which are used most commonly by optical engineers and are easier to adapt to third-order optics and y-??? diagrams. Moving by logical degrees from fundamental principles to advanced optical analysis and design methods, this book bridges the gap between the optical theory taught in introductory physics texts and advanced books on lens design. Providing the background material needed to understand advanced material, it covers important topics such as field of view, stops, pupils and windows, exact ray tracing, image quality, and optimization of the image. Important features of Modern Geometrical Optics include:
* Examples of all important techniques presented
* Extensive problem sets in each chapter
* Optical analysis and design software
* Chapters covering y-??? diagrams, optimization, and lens design
This book is both a primer for professionals called upon to design optical systems and an ideal text for courses in modern geometrical optics. Companion Software Special lens design and analysis software capable of solving all problems presented in the book is available via Wiley's FTP site. This software also serves as an introduction to the use of commercial lens design software. Appendix C is a user's manual for the software.

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