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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...
Epioptics-10
World Scientific Publishing Company 2010; US$ 127.00The book is aimed at assessing the capabilities of state-of-the-art optical techniques in elucidating the fundamental electronic and structural properties of semiconductor and metal surfaces, interfaces, thin layers, and layer structures, and assessing the usefulness of these techniques for optimization of high quality multilayer samples through feedback... more...
Fundamentals of Light Sources and Lasers
Wiley 2011; US$ 150.00A comprehensive introduction to the burgeoning field of photonics The field of photonics is finding increasing applications across a broad range of industries. While many other books provide an overview of the subject, Fundamentals of Light Sources and Lasers closes a clear gap in the current literature by concentrating on the principles of laser operation... more...
Geometrical and Instrumental Optics
Elsevier Science 1989; US$ 215.00Geometrical and Instrumental Optics more...
Handbook of Optical Systems
Wiley 2006; US$ 555.00The state-of-the-art full-colored handbook gives in six volumes a comprehensive introduction to the principles and the practice of calculation, layout and understanding of optical systems and lens design. Written by reputed industrial experts in the field the user is introduced to the basic properties of optical systems, aberration theory, classification... more...
International Trends in Optics
Elsevier Science 1991; US$ 89.50International Trends in Optics more...
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...
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...
Light Years
Palgrave Macmillan 2007; US$ 16.99This is the story of the greatest puzzle in our universe: what is light? 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. Light Years looks over the shoulders of the great revolutionaries of light theory--Bacon, Galileo, Newton, Faraday,... 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...









