| Description |
1 online resource (xvii, 151 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
SPIE field guides ; FG51 |
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SPIE field guides ; FG51.
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| Contents |
Introduction -- Light: Waves and Particles -- Matter -- Atoms -- Molecules -- Gases, Liquids, and Solids -- Phonons -- Classification of Light-Matter Interaction Processes -- Light-Atom, Light-Molecule, and Light-Solid Interaction -- Coherence in Light-Atom Interaction -- Electromagnetic Field Generation -- Light Propagation -- Nonlinear Optical Effects -- Second-Order Optical Wave Interactions -- Third-Order Optical Wave Interactions -- Light-Plasma Interaction -- Optical Pressure -- Equation Summary |
| Summary |
"Our understanding of the interaction of light and matter has a long history that evolved from the ancient corpuscular theory to wave theory and finally to the quantum theory. Matter is composed of charged particles, and among these particles are positively charged nuclei surrounded by electrons that are in motion. Light is an oscillating electromagnetic wave. But light is also particles (photons). The primary objective of this Field Guide is to provide the principles of light-matter interaction using classical, semiclassical, and quantum theories. To this end, the guide provides the formulae for, and descriptions of, phenomena that are fundamental to our current state of knowledge of light-matter interaction."-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Galina Nemova is a research fellow at École Polytechnique de Montréal, Canada, since 2004. She received her M.Sc. and Ph.D. from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, Russia, in 1987 and 1990, respectively. She served as a staff scientific researcher at the Kotelnikov Institute of Radio-engineering and Electronics of Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia (1990-2000). She was engaged as a research fellow at Laval University, Quebec, Canada (2000-2002) and was an optical engineer/researcher at Bragg Photonics Inc., Montreal, Canada (2002-2004). Dr. Nemova is a senior member of the Optical Society of America. Her research interests cover a broad range of topics such as laser cooling of solids, fiber lasers and amplifiers, Raman lasers, nonlinear optics, fiber sensors, planar optical waveguides, fiber Bragg gratings, long period gratings, and surface polaritons |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Nanophotonics.
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Photonics.
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Nanophotonics
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers, publisher.
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SPIE (Society)
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| ISBN |
9781510647008 |
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1510647007 |
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