| Description |
1 online resource (360 pages) |
| Contents |
Harnessing Light -- Copyright -- Preface -- Acknowledgment of Reviewers -- Contents -- Executive Summary: Introduction to the Field and the Issues -- THE FIELD OF OPTICS -- THE REPORT -- Optics and National Needs -- Information Technology and Telecommunications -- Health Care and the Life Sciences -- Optical Sensing, Lighting, and Energy -- Optics in Manufacturing -- National Defense -- Manufacturing of Optical Systems and Components -- Education and Research -- Overview -- OPTICS: A PERVASIVE ENABLER -- TRENDS AND DEVELOPMENTS |
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Information Technology and TelecommunicationsHealth Care and the Life Sciences -- Optical Sensing, Lighting, and Energy -- Optics in Manufacturing -- National Defense -- Manufacturing of Optical Components and Systems -- Research and Education -- KEY CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS -- Information Technology and Telecommunications -- Health Care and the Life Sciences -- Optical Sensing, Lighting, and Energy -- National Defense -- Optics in Manufacturing -- Manufacturing of Optical Components and Systems -- Research and Education -- A VISION OF THE FUTURE |
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1 Optics in Information Technology and TelecommunicationsINFORMATION TRANSPORT -- Long-Distance Transmission -- Undersea Transmission -- Terrestrial Systems -- Fiber to the Home -- Analog Lightwave Transmission -- Cable Television -- Remote Antennas -- Optical Space Communications -- INFORMATION PROCESSING -- Optical Data Links -- Optical Networking and Switching -- Switching -- WDM Networks -- High-Density Optical Switching -- All-Optical Switching -- Optical Image Processing and Computing -- Overall Issues -- OPTICAL STORAGE |
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Market Size and Current TrendsTrends in Storage Technologies -- Education Issues -- International Competitiveness -- Key Unresolved Issues -- Opportunities, Challenges, and Obstacles -- DISPLAYS -- Medium-Sized Displays -- Small Displays -- Projection Displays -- Very Large Displays -- Military and Avionics Displays -- Educational and R & D Issues -- SUMMARY AND RECOMMENDATIONS -- Information Transport -- Processing -- Data Links -- Optical Networking and Switching -- Optical Image Processing and Computing -- General -- Storage -- Displays |
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2 Optics in Health Care and the Life SciencesSURGERY AND MEDICINE -- Introduction of Lasers -- Understanding the Interaction of Light with Tissue -- Minimally Invasive Therapy -- Advanced Therapeutic Applications of Lasers -- Laser Refractive Surgery -- Cardiovascular Applications -- Photodynamic Therapy -- Optical Diagnostic Techniques -- Blood Monitoring -- Optical Tumor Detection -- Imaging and Spectroscopy in Scattering Media -- Optical Coherence Tomography -- Laser-Hyperpolarized Gases for Magnetic Resonance Imaging |
| Notes |
""Feedback Control of Therapeutic Lasers"" |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Photonics.
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Optics -- Industrial applications
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Optical instruments.
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Engineering instruments.
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Optical communications.
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optical instruments.
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Engineering instruments
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Optical communications
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Optical instruments
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Optics -- Industrial applications
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Photonics
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780309538848 |
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030953884X |
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