Handbook of Optics, Volume IV, Volume 4

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McGraw Hill Professional, Nov 17, 2000 - Technology & Engineering - 832 pages

A new volume in the field's bestselling optics reference--an entirely new opus focusing exclusively on fiber-optics. Contains an ultra-handy, comprehensive index to all four Handbook of Optics volumes.

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Contents

Part 1 Fiber Optics
1-1
Part 2 Nonlinear and Quantum Optics
17-1
Index
I-1
Copyright

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About the author (2000)

Michael Bass is Professor of Optics, Physics and Electrical and Computer Engineering at the School of Optics/Center for Research and Education in Optics and Lasers at the University of Central Florida. He received his B.S. in physics from Carnegie-Mellon, and his M.S. and Ph.D. in physics from the University of Michigan. Eric W. van Stryland is a Professor of Optics, Physics and Electrical and Computer Engineering at the School of Optics/Center for Research and Education in Optics and Lasers at the University of Central Florida. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Arizona. Jay M. Enoch is a Professor at the Graduate School and Dean Emeritus, School of Optometry, University of California at Berkeley. He is also a Professor at the Department of Ophthalmology, University of California at San Francisco. He received his B.S. in Optics and Optometry from Columbia University and his Ph.D. in Physiological Optics from Ohio State University. William L. Wolfe is a Professor Emeritus at the Optical Sciences Center, University of Arizona. He received his B.S. in physics from Bucknell University, and his M.S. in physics and M.S.E. in electrical engineering from the University of Michigan.

Bibliographic information

TitleHandbook of Optics, Volume IV, Volume 4
AuthorOptical Society of America
PublisherMcGraw Hill Professional, 2000
ISBN0071414797, 9780071414791
Length832 pages
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