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Let There Be Light
World Scientific Publishing Company 2013; US$ 153.00This book is the first of its kind devoted to the key role played by light and electromagnetic radiation in the universe. Readers are introduced to philosophical hypotheses such as the economy, symmetry and the universality of natural laws, and are then guided to practical consequences such as the rules of geometrical optics and even Einstein's... more...
The Physics of Invisibility
Springer 2011; US$ 23.99The ability is see is fundamental to our very existence. How true our perceptions really are depends upon many factors, and not least is our understanding of what light is and how it interacts with matter. It was said that the camera, the icon of light recording instruments, never lies, and in the day of the glass plate and celluloid roll-film this... more...
Brief History of Light, And Those That Lit The Way
World Scientific Publishing Company 1996; US$ 61.10From Leonardo to Oppenheimer, from candles to lasers, from cave drawings to cinema, from Stonehenge to quantum mechanics, from Genesis to the Big Bang, light has filled our thoughts, our way of life, our aesthetics, our technology, and our means for survival. Richard Weiss leads us along these paths over the past 500 light years. The way is lit by... more...
Lenses and waves
Springer 2004; US$ 159.00In 1690, Christiaan Huygens (1629-1695) published Traité de la Lumière, containing his renowned wave theory of light. It is considered a landmark in seventeenth-century science, for the way Huygens mathematized the corpuscular nature of light and his probabilistic conception of natural knowledge. This book discusses the development of Huygens' wave... more...
Light and Dark
CRC Press 2002; US$ 41.95The wide range of topics in this book are linked by the theme of the title. It looks at many familiar phenomena, such as the variations in the duration of twighlight through the year and the ability of human vision to misinterpret patterns of lines under certain conditions. more...
Free And Guided Optical Beams
World Scientific Publishing Company 2004; US$ 112.00Optical beams are electromagnetic waves that remain essentially concentrated around a mean axis upon free propagation or that are guided by suitable structures. The study of these beams has existed long ago and since then this field has been a focus of active investigation. However, in recent years, the interest on optical beams has further increased,... more...
Frontiers in Planar Lightwave Circuit Technology
Springer 2005; US$ 79.99Provides detailed overviews of experimental and theoretical work in high index contrast waveguide systems, micro-optical resonators, nonlinear optics, and advanced optical simulation methods. This work also presents articles describing emerging applications of integrated optics for medical and biological applications. more...
Patterns of Light
Springer 2007; US$ 64.99Begins by addressing properties of light as seen in the everyday world: events such as refraction in a pool, lenses in the form of glasses, the colors of objects, atmospheric events, and more. This title includes chapters that explain these events at the atomic and subatomic level. more...
Light Years
Palgrave Macmillan Ltd. 2007; US$ 17.00The fully updated 2nd edition of this critically acclaimed book covers the exciting developments in light science of the past five years. Light Years is an engaging survey of everything we know of the universe's most enigmatic phenomenon and the remarkable people who have been captivated by it. more...









