Experimental and Theoretical Studies in Optical Coherence Theory
... postulating a simple set of equations [Maxwell, 1873]. He established that light waves can be considered as electromagnetic waves propagating with a finite velocity. Maxwell’s equations, together with the constitutive relations which describe the reaction of matter to electric and magnetic fields, f ...
... postulating a simple set of equations [Maxwell, 1873]. He established that light waves can be considered as electromagnetic waves propagating with a finite velocity. Maxwell’s equations, together with the constitutive relations which describe the reaction of matter to electric and magnetic fields, f ...
Introduction to Diffraction Grating
... This line of replicated gratings is specifically designed for transmission use. Transmission gratings allow for linear optical designs that can be beneficial in fixed grating applications such as spectrographs. The incident light is dispersed on the opposite side of the grating at a fixed angle. Tra ...
... This line of replicated gratings is specifically designed for transmission use. Transmission gratings allow for linear optical designs that can be beneficial in fixed grating applications such as spectrographs. The incident light is dispersed on the opposite side of the grating at a fixed angle. Tra ...
Pulsed photoacoustic techniques and glucose determination in
... on pulsed photoacoustic techniques, which have potential ability in non-invasive blood glucose measurement. The fundamental theory of photoacoustics in liquid and soft tissue was studied systematically. The distributions of photoacoustic sources in a near-infrared optical skin model were simulated b ...
... on pulsed photoacoustic techniques, which have potential ability in non-invasive blood glucose measurement. The fundamental theory of photoacoustics in liquid and soft tissue was studied systematically. The distributions of photoacoustic sources in a near-infrared optical skin model were simulated b ...
Properties of a 4Pi confocal fluorescence microscope
... less than in the case of normal illumination with the first minima at z = +705 nm. However, the lack of a complete spherical wave front and the presence of aplanatic illumination force additional elevations along the optical axis that reach peak values of 0.58. For calculation of the resolution of t ...
... less than in the case of normal illumination with the first minima at z = +705 nm. However, the lack of a complete spherical wave front and the presence of aplanatic illumination force additional elevations along the optical axis that reach peak values of 0.58. For calculation of the resolution of t ...
Optimally designed narrowband guided
... characteristics. Indeed, for filter design that must meet stringent performance criteria that include filter bandwidth, out-of-band rejection, and filter efficiency, these considerations become critical for determining whether or not a design is feasible with a set of materials. Without the effects ...
... characteristics. Indeed, for filter design that must meet stringent performance criteria that include filter bandwidth, out-of-band rejection, and filter efficiency, these considerations become critical for determining whether or not a design is feasible with a set of materials. Without the effects ...
Chapter 3 How Far Can We Extend the Limits of Human Vision?
... Table 3-1 compares the results of several studies. The conversion between columns in Table 3-1 has been made assuming triangular packing of cones.14 The Nyquist limit indicates the finest grating patterns that human foveal vision can reasonably expect to resolve in the sense of being able to see the ...
... Table 3-1 compares the results of several studies. The conversion between columns in Table 3-1 has been made assuming triangular packing of cones.14 The Nyquist limit indicates the finest grating patterns that human foveal vision can reasonably expect to resolve in the sense of being able to see the ...
Optical Parametric Processes with Femtosecond
... Third Harmonic Generation in a Micro-Structured BBO Crystal ............................................. 65 4.1. Introduction ............................................................................................................................ 65 4.2. The Materials Micro-Processing Laborat ...
... Third Harmonic Generation in a Micro-Structured BBO Crystal ............................................. 65 4.1. Introduction ............................................................................................................................ 65 4.2. The Materials Micro-Processing Laborat ...
Metal-dielectric-metal plasmonic waveguide devices for
... converters which couple efficiently the modes of two MDM plasmonic waveguides with different widths. Mode converters can act as impedance matching circuits maximizing the coupling between plasmonic waveguides and optoelectronic devices, and will therefore be essential components of plasmonic integra ...
... converters which couple efficiently the modes of two MDM plasmonic waveguides with different widths. Mode converters can act as impedance matching circuits maximizing the coupling between plasmonic waveguides and optoelectronic devices, and will therefore be essential components of plasmonic integra ...
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... 1690 Huygens put forward the basis for the theory we use today. In 1801, Thomas Young performed a fundamental experiment for demonstrating interference and the wave nature of light, see Fig. 9.1.26. He used monochromatic light passing a single pinhole first and subsequently traveling to two separated ...
... 1690 Huygens put forward the basis for the theory we use today. In 1801, Thomas Young performed a fundamental experiment for demonstrating interference and the wave nature of light, see Fig. 9.1.26. He used monochromatic light passing a single pinhole first and subsequently traveling to two separated ...
Fibre-Loop Ring-Down Spectroscopy Using Liquid Core Waveguides
... of the light intensity in the cavity is measured, thereby rendering the techniques insensitive to light intensity fluctuations. Optical waveguides are used to build the optical cavities presented in this work. The geometries of such waveguides permit the use of very small liquid sample volumes while ...
... of the light intensity in the cavity is measured, thereby rendering the techniques insensitive to light intensity fluctuations. Optical waveguides are used to build the optical cavities presented in this work. The geometries of such waveguides permit the use of very small liquid sample volumes while ...
Study on the Sensing Coating of the Optical Fibre CO2 Sensor
... 1.3. Optical Fibre Gas Sensors There are various ways of utilizing the optical fibres in various systems for chemical monitoring. They can be used for sample illumination and signal reception or they can be sensors per se by using special active fibre coatings, which are sensitive to the analysed su ...
... 1.3. Optical Fibre Gas Sensors There are various ways of utilizing the optical fibres in various systems for chemical monitoring. They can be used for sample illumination and signal reception or they can be sensors per se by using special active fibre coatings, which are sensitive to the analysed su ...
Tunable nonlinear fiber optics using dense noble gases
... broad transmission range lead kagomé HC-PCF to be used in novel nonlinear experiments such as dispersive wave UV generation [17], in-fiber ionization related effects [18, 19], spectral broadening for pulse compression [20], frequency comb generation [13, 14], etc. In all these cases the material non ...
... broad transmission range lead kagomé HC-PCF to be used in novel nonlinear experiments such as dispersive wave UV generation [17], in-fiber ionization related effects [18, 19], spectral broadening for pulse compression [20], frequency comb generation [13, 14], etc. In all these cases the material non ...
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... Figure 5-20: Scattering pattern from a single BG spore: (a) estimated spore dimensions, (b) numerical simulation, (c) and (d) experimental results....................................... 84 Figure 5-21: Histogram of concentrations of particles in different Dsym ranges for different particle types. .. ...
... Figure 5-20: Scattering pattern from a single BG spore: (a) estimated spore dimensions, (b) numerical simulation, (c) and (d) experimental results....................................... 84 Figure 5-21: Histogram of concentrations of particles in different Dsym ranges for different particle types. .. ...
Boundless Study Slides
... • monochromatic Describes a beam of light with a single wavelength (i.e., of one specific color or frequency). • monochromatic Describes a beam of light with a single wavelength (i.e., of one specific color or frequency). • nematic Describing the structure of some liquid crystals whose molecules ali ...
... • monochromatic Describes a beam of light with a single wavelength (i.e., of one specific color or frequency). • monochromatic Describes a beam of light with a single wavelength (i.e., of one specific color or frequency). • nematic Describing the structure of some liquid crystals whose molecules ali ...
James MacCullagh (1809‐47) Trinity Monday Memorial Discourse 2015 Professor James G Lunney FTCD MRIA
... light had largely replaced the corpuscular theory that had been dominant until nearly the end of the 18th century. Natural philosophers asserted that some kind of medium was required to support the undulations of light, just as for other kinds of wave. To this mysterious supporting me ...
... light had largely replaced the corpuscular theory that had been dominant until nearly the end of the 18th century. Natural philosophers asserted that some kind of medium was required to support the undulations of light, just as for other kinds of wave. To this mysterious supporting me ...
Nanosphere Lithography: Effect of Substrate on the Localized
... In this paper, we explore the optical contributions of the substrate to the localized surface plasmon resonance (LSPR) spectrum of surface confined Ag nanoparticles produced by nanosphere lithography (NSL). We present optical extinction spectra of Ag nanoparticles fabricated on the following substra ...
... In this paper, we explore the optical contributions of the substrate to the localized surface plasmon resonance (LSPR) spectrum of surface confined Ag nanoparticles produced by nanosphere lithography (NSL). We present optical extinction spectra of Ag nanoparticles fabricated on the following substra ...
optical resonances in multilayer structures
... where P = ǫ0 χe E and M = µ0 χm H are the polarization and magnetization vectors related to the electric and magnetic fields by the dimensionless electric and magnetic susceptibilities χe and χm . The constants of proportionality are called relative electric permittivity ǫr = 1 + χe and relative mag ...
... where P = ǫ0 χe E and M = µ0 χm H are the polarization and magnetization vectors related to the electric and magnetic fields by the dimensionless electric and magnetic susceptibilities χe and χm . The constants of proportionality are called relative electric permittivity ǫr = 1 + χe and relative mag ...
Lab 71 in TFFM08 Fiber Optics
... measured attenuations, with the overfilled case having a higher loss than the underfilled case. In the ray picture, the higher-order rays will spend more of the time near the corecladding interface and will have more of their evanescent field extending into the fiber cladding, resulting in higher at ...
... measured attenuations, with the overfilled case having a higher loss than the underfilled case. In the ray picture, the higher-order rays will spend more of the time near the corecladding interface and will have more of their evanescent field extending into the fiber cladding, resulting in higher at ...
Retrieving microphysical properties of dust
... very similar model particles to spheroids, the above considerations are likely to apply also to them. Since the third axis of ellipsoids provides an even broader base for fitting than spheroids, they are likely to be able to mimic scattering by a wide variety of different target particles. This grea ...
... very similar model particles to spheroids, the above considerations are likely to apply also to them. Since the third axis of ellipsoids provides an even broader base for fitting than spheroids, they are likely to be able to mimic scattering by a wide variety of different target particles. This grea ...
The Nonlinear Optical Susceptibility
... medium must be lossless and dispersionless. We shall see in Section 1.3 how to generalize these equations for the case of a medium with dispersion and loss. In general, the nonlinear susceptibilities depend on the frequencies of the applied fields, but under our present assumption of instantaneous r ...
... medium must be lossless and dispersionless. We shall see in Section 1.3 how to generalize these equations for the case of a medium with dispersion and loss. In general, the nonlinear susceptibilities depend on the frequencies of the applied fields, but under our present assumption of instantaneous r ...