Lasers category: 528 books
Military Laser Technology for Defense
Technology for Revolutionizing 21st Century Warfare
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2011
Recent advances in ultra-high-power lasers, including the free-electron laser, and impressive airborne demonstrations of laser weapons systems, such as the airborne laser, have shown the enormous potential of laser technology to revolutionize 21st century warfare.
Military Laser Technology...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2013
The optical properties of carbon nanotubes and graphene make them potentially suitable for a variety of photonic applications. Carbon nanotubes and graphene for photonic applications explores the properties of these exciting materials and their use across a variety of applications.
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Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2012
This new edition features numerous updates and additions. Especially 4 new chapters on Fiber Optics, Integrated Optics, Frequency Combs and Interferometry reflect the changes since the first edition.
In addition, major complete updates for the chapters: Optical Materials and Their Properties,...
by Andrey V. Korol, Andrey V. Solov'yov, Walter Greiner
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2014
The development of coherent radiation sources for sub-angstrom wavelengths - i.e. in the hard X-ray and gamma-ray range - is a challenging goal of modern physics. The availability of such sources will have many applications in basic science, technology and medicine and in particular, they may have...
by Jeff Hecht
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2015
Beam Weapons describes the roots of Ronald Reagan's 'Star Wars' quest for a strategic defense system to intercept and destroy nuclear ballistic missiles before they could reach their targets. The goal was to develop radically new beam weapons that destroyed nuclear missiles with directed...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2016
Fundamentals and Applications of Nanophotonics includes a comprehensive discussion of the field of nanophotonics, including key enabling technologies that have the potential to drive economic growth and impact numerous application domains such as ICT, the environment, healthcare, military, transport,...
Lasers Based Manufacturing
5th International and 26th All India Manufacturing Technology, Design and Research Conference, AIMTDR 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2015
This book presents selected research papers of the AIMTDR 2014 conference on application of laser technology for various manufacturing processes such as cutting, forming, welding, sintering, cladding and micro-machining. State-of-the-art of these technologies in terms of numerical modeling, experimental...
Laser Surface Engineering
Processes and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2014
Lasers can alter the surface composition and properties of materials in a highly controllable way, which makes them efficient and cost-effective tools for surface engineering. This book provides an overview of the different techniques, the laser-material interactions and the advantages and disadvantages...
Advances in Optical Science and Engineering
Proceedings of the Third International Conference, OPTRONIX 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2017
The Proceedings of 3rd International Conference on Opto-Electronics and Applied Optics, OPTRONIX 2016 is an effort to promote and present the research works by scientists and researchers including students in India and abroad in the area of Green Photonics and other related areas as well as to raise...
Directed Energy Weapons
Physics of High Energy Lasers (HEL)
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2016
This book delves deeply into the real-world technologies behind the ‘directed energy weapons’ that many believe exist only within the confines of science fiction. On the contrary, directed energy weapons such as high energy lasers are very real, and this book provides a crash course in all the...
Fundamentals of Optical Computing Technology
Forward the Next Generation Supercomputer
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2018
This book presents the principles, experimental technologies, up-to-date research findings and applications of various optical-computing technologies and devices. It also discusses semiconductor multiple quantum well (MQW) photoelectronic devices, vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers (VCSELs),...
by Kenneth G. Watkins, Jyotirmoy Mazumder, William M. Steen
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2010
The informal style of Laser Material Processing (4th Edition) will guide you smoothly from the basics of laser physics to the detailed treatment of all the major materials processing techniques for which lasers are now essential.
• Helps you to understand how the laser works and to decide...
Dynamics of Quantum Dot Lasers
Effects of Optical Feedback and External Optical Injection
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2014
This thesis deals with the dynamics of state-of-the-art nanophotonic semiconductor structures, providing essential information on fundamental aspects of nonlinear dynamical systems on the one hand, and technological applications in modern telecommunication on the other. Three different complex laser...
Advanced Lasers
Laser Physics and Technology for Applied and Fundamental Science
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2015
Presenting a blend of applied and fundamental research in highly interdisciplinary subjects of rapidly developing areas, this book contains contributions on the frontiers and hot topics of laser physics, laser technology and laser engineering, and covers a wide range of laser topics, from all-optical...