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  title info:
    title: Optics in Our Time
  name:
    name part: Al-Amri, Mohammad D.
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: El-Gomati, Mohamed.
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: Zubairy, M. Suhail.
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: gw
    date issued: 2016
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XX, 504 p. 355 illus., 277 illus. in color. online resource.
  abstract: Light and light based technologies have played an important role in transforming our lives via scientific contributions spanned over thousands of years. In this book we present a vast collection of articles on various aspects of light and its applications in the contemporary world at a popular or semi-popular level. These articles are written by the world authorities in their respective fields. This is therefore a rare volume where the world experts have come together to present the developments in this most important field of science in an almost pedagogical manner. This volume covers five aspects related to light. The first presents two articles, one on the history of the nature of light, and the other on the scientific achievements of Ibn-Haitham (Alhazen), who is broadly considered the father of modern optics. These are then followed by an article on ultrafast phenomena and the invisible world. The third part includes papers on specific sources of light, the discoveries of which have revolutionized optical technologies in our lifetime. They discuss the nature and the characteristics of lasers, Solid-state lighting based on the Light Emitting Diode (LED) technology, and finally modern electron optics and its relationship to the Muslim golden age in science. The book’s fourth part discusses various applications of optics and light in today's world, including biophotonics, art, optical communication, nanotechnology, the eye as an optical instrument, remote sensing, and optics in medicine. In turn, the last part focuses on quantum optics, a modern field that grew out of the interaction of light and matter. Topics addressed include atom optics, slow, stored and stationary light, optical tests of the foundation of physics, quantum mechanical properties of light fields carrying orbital angular momentum, quantum communication, and Wave-Particle dualism in action.
  table of contents: History -- A brief history of light -- Ibn Al-Haitham – Father of modern optics -- Optical Sources -- Femtosecond light -- Laser -- LED light -- Electron optics -- Applications -- Biophotonics -- Optical communication -- Optical astronomy -- Solar cells -- Optics in Remote Sensing -- Optics in nanotechnology -- Optics in art -- Eye -- Optics in medicine -- Optical illusions -- Quantum Optics -- Optical tests of foundations of physics -- Nonlinear Optics: Historical Perspectives and New Opportunities -- Quantum communication -- Nature of photon -- Atom optics -- Coherent effects: From EIT to slow light.
  note: edited by Mohammad D. Al-Amri, Mohamed El-Gomati, M. Suhail Zubairy.
  note: Open Access
  subject:
    topic: Physics
  subject:
    topic: Quantum optics
  subject:
    topic: Physics
  subject:
    topic: Optics, Lasers, Photonics, Optical Devices
  subject:
    topic: Quantum Optics
  subject:
    topic: Popular Science in Physics
  subject:
    topic: History and Philosophical Foundations of Physics
  classification: TA1671-1707
  classification: TA1501-1820
  classification: 621.36
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    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
  identifier: 9783319319032
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-31903-2
  access condition: Open Access
  record info:
    record creation date: 161213
    record change date: 20161213130940.0
    record identifier: 978-3-319-31903-2