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Fundamentals of Attosecond Optics
This book's coverage builds from basic underlying theory to more complex ideas related to attosecond optics. It shows how the generation of attosecond optical pulses requires knowledge of femtosecond laser technologies but is also quite distinct from femtosecond laser technologies. The author elaborates on this point using semi-classical models and quantum mechanics theories. He explains generation of attosecond pulse train and gating methods for extracting single isolated pulses and presents illustrative examples of attosecond applications.
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Fundamentals of physics. II, Electromagnetism, optics, and quantum mechanics
R. Shankar, a well-known physicist and contagiously enthusiastic educator, was among the first to offer a course through the innovative Open Yale Course program. His popular online video lectures on introductory physics have been viewed over a million times. In this second book based on his online Yale course, Shankar explains essential concepts, including electromagnetism, optics, and quantum mechanics. The book begins at the simplest level, develops the basics, and reinforces fundamentals, ensuring a solid foundation in the principles and methods of physics.
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Technische Optik
Dieses Werk wendet sich vor allem an Studierende der Ingenieurwissenschaften und anderer techniknaher Studiengänge an Hochschulen für angewandte Wissenschaften.Es vermittelt sowohl Begrifflichkeiten als auch elementare Grundlagen der technischen Optik und führt den Leser in anschaulicher, anwendungsorientierter Weise an die folgenden.
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Painting unknown worlds
This paper sets out to discover more about the name ‘Tarrant’ whose ophthalmic paintings have regularly featured in ophthalmic textbooks over the past 50 years. Through a series of telephone calls, I have spoken to Tarrant about his life and work while I research the origins of ophthalmic illustrations charting the story behind this art movement. The paper also explores the eventual decline of retinal painting and the emergence of photography, concluding that due to the continuing advance of technology the ophthalmic photographer may eventually succumb to the same fate as the artist.
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Revisiting Poincaré Sphere and Pauli Algebra in Polarization Optics
We present one of the main lines of development of Poincaré sphere representation in polarization optics, by using largely some of our contributions in the field. We refer to the action of deterministic devices, specifically the diattenuators, on the partial polarized light. On one hand, we emphasize the intimate connection between the Pauli algebraic analysis and the Poincaré ball representation of this interaction. On the other hand, we bring to the foreground the close similarity between the law of composition of the Poincaré vectors of the diattenuator and of polarized light and the law of composition of relativistic admissible velocities. These two kinds of vectors are isomorphic, and they are “imprisoned” in a sphere of finite radius, standardizable at a radius of one, i.e., Poincaré sphere.
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Introduction to laser spectroscopy
Introduction to Laser Spectroscopy is a well-written, easy-to-read guide to understanding the fundamentals of lasers, experimental methods of modern laser spectroscopy and applications.It provides a solid grounding in the fundamentals of many aspects of laser physics, nonlinear optics, and molecular spectroscopy.
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Investigating the dependence of mineral dust depolarization on complex refractive index and size with a laboratory polarimeter at 180.0° lidar backscattering angle
In this paper, the dependence of the particles' depolarization ratio (PDR) of mineral dust on the complex refractive index and size is for the first time investigated through a laboratory π-polarimeter operating at 180.0∘ backscattering angle and at (355, 532) nm wavelengths for lidar purposes. The dust PDR is indeed an important input parameter in polarization lidar experiments involving mineral dust. Our π-polarimeter provides 16 accurate (<1 %) values of the dust lidar PDR at 180.0∘ corresponding to four different complex refractive indices, studied at two size distributions (fine, coarse) ranging from 10 nm to more than 10 µm and at (355, 532) nm wavelengths while accounting for the highly irregular shape of mineral dust, which is difficult to model numerically. At 355 nm, the lidar PDR of coarser silica, the main oxide in mineral dust, is equal to (33±1) %, while that of coarser hematite, the main light absorbent in mineral dust, is (10±1) %. This huge difference is here explained by accounting for the high imaginary part of the hematite complex refractive index. In turn, Arizona dust exhibits higher depolarization than Asian dust, due to the higher proportion in hematite in the latter. As a result, when the strong light-absorbent hematite is involved, the dust lidar PDR primarily depends on the particles' complex refractive index, and its variations with size and shape are less pronounced. When hematite is less or not involved, the dust lidar PDR increases with increasing sizes, though the shape dependence may then also play a role. The (355, 532) nm wavelength dependence of the dust lidar PDR then allows discussing on the involved particle sizes, thus highlighting the importance of dual-wavelength (or more) polarization lidar instruments. We believe these laboratory findings will help improve our understanding of the challenging dependence of the dust lidar PDR with complex refractive index and size to help interpret the complexity and the wealth of polarization lidar signals.
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Learning optics from the history
A number of studies have described the benefits of the incorporation of History and Philosophy of Science (HPS) for learning, and teaching science as a process, for promoting conceptual changes, and a deeper understanding of scientific ideas. Physical Optics is a topic of difficult comprehension, and this fact was also observed at thePontificia Universidad Católica Argentina when students received traditional instruction. This article describes a project to improve the teaching of interference, and diffraction of light within a historical context. Care was taken in developing the line of historical thought, and the study of the hypotheses of the nature of light in proper chronological order. In order to assess the outcome of this methodology, surveys on the subjects of interference, and diffraction of light were conductedduring three consecutive years. During the first year a textbooks based teaching without historical insight was imparted; later HPS based methods were introduced. The results show that students show more enthusiasm in lectures where the didactics uses HPS materials, and this methodology contributed to improve the students´ performance, increasing the percentage of correct answers in the exams.
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Bermudan option pricing by quantum amplitude estimation and Chebyshev interpolation
Pricing of financial derivatives, in particular early exercisable options such as Bermudan options, is an important but heavy numerical task in financial institutions, and its speed-up will provide a large business impact. Recently, applications of quantum computing to financial problems have been started to be investigated. In this paper, we first propose a quantum algorithm for Bermudan option pricing. This method performs the approximation of the continuation value, which is a crucial part of Bermudan option pricing, by Chebyshev interpolation, using the values at interpolation nodes estimated by quantum amplitude estimation. In this method, the number of calls to the oracle to generate underlying asset price paths scales as O˜(ϵ−1), where ϵ is the error tolerance of the option price. This means the quadratic speed-up compared with classical Monte Carlo-based methods such as least-squares Monte Carlo, in which the oracle call number is O˜(ϵ−2).
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