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Demonstrational Optics presents a new didactical approach to the study of optics. Emphasizing the importance of elaborate new experimental demonstrations, pictorial illustrations, computer simulations and models of optical phenomena in order to ensure a deeper understanding of wave and geometric optics. It includes problems focused on the pragmatic needs of students, secondary school teachers, university professors and optical engineers. Part 2, Coherent and Statistical Optics, contains chapters on interference, diffraction, Fourier optics, light quanta, thermal radiation (Shot noise and Gaussian light), Correlation of light fields and Correlation of light intensities. A substantial part of this volume is devoted to thermal radiation and its properties, especially with partial coherence. A detailed treatment of the photo-effect with respect to statistical properties leads to the basics of statistical optics. To illustrate the phenomena covered by this volume, a large number of demonstration experiments are described and discussed. In the chapters devoted to statistical phenomena computer simulations are described, the code of all relevant programs being included.

Physics. --- Electromagnetism, Optics and Lasers. --- Classical Electrodynamics, Wave Phenomena. --- Laser Technology and Physics, Photonics. --- History of Physics. --- Statistics, general. --- Electromagnetism. --- Electrodynamics. --- Laser physics. --- Physics --- Statistics. --- Physique --- Electromagnétisme --- Electrodynamique --- Statistique --- History. --- Histoire --- Light. --- Optics. --- Light & Optics --- Physical Sciences & Mathematics --- Classical Electrodynamics. --- Optics, Lasers, Photonics, Optical Devices. --- History and Philosophical Foundations of Physics. --- Electromagnetic waves --- Light sources --- Spectrum analysis --- Light --- Statistical analysis --- Statistical data --- Statistical methods --- Statistical science --- Mathematics --- Econometrics --- Lasers. --- Photonics. --- Statistics . --- Natural philosophy --- Philosophy, Natural --- Physical sciences --- Dynamics --- New optics --- Optics --- Light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation --- Masers, Optical --- Optical masers --- Light amplifiers --- Optoelectronic devices --- Nonlinear optics --- Optical parametric oscillators

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Based on the method of canonical transformation of variables and the classical perturbation theory, this innovative book treats the systematic theory of symplectic mappings for Hamiltonian systems and its application to the study of the dynamics and chaos of various physical problems described by Hamiltonian systems. It develops a new, mathematically-rigorous method to construct symplectic mappings which replaces the dynamics of continuous Hamiltonian systems by the discrete ones. Applications of the mapping methods encompass the chaos theory in non-twist and non-smooth dynamical systems, the structure and chaotic transport in the stochastic layer, the magnetic field lines in magnetically confinement devices of plasmas, ray dynamics in waveguides, etc. The book is intended for postgraduate students and researches, physicists and astronomers working in the areas of plasma physics, hydrodynamics, celestial mechanics, dynamical astronomy, and accelerator physics. It should also be useful for applied mathematicians involved in analytical and numerical studies of dynamical systems.

Hamiltonian systems. --- Systèmes hamiltoniens --- Physics. --- Mathematical physics. --- Plasma (Ionized gases). --- Electrodynamics. --- Mathematical and Computational Physics. --- Atoms and Molecules in Strong Fields, Plasma Physics. --- Classical Electrodynamics, Wave Phenomena. --- Physics and Applied Physics in Engineering. --- Hamiltonian systems --- Mappings (Mathematics) --- Engineering & Applied Sciences --- Applied Physics --- Maps (Mathematics) --- Hamiltonian dynamical systems --- Systems, Hamiltonian --- Optics. --- Atoms. --- Matter. --- Engineering. --- Theoretical, Mathematical and Computational Physics. --- Atoms and Molecules in Strong Fields, Laser Matter Interaction. --- Plasma Physics. --- Optics and Electrodynamics. --- Engineering, general. --- Differentiable dynamical systems --- Functions --- Functions, Continuous --- Topology --- Transformations (Mathematics) --- Classical Electrodynamics. --- Construction --- Industrial arts --- Technology --- Gaseous discharge --- Gaseous plasma --- Magnetoplasma --- Ionized gases --- Natural philosophy --- Philosophy, Natural --- Physical sciences --- Dynamics --- Chemistry, Physical and theoretical --- Matter --- Stereochemistry --- Physics --- Light --- Physical mathematics --- Constitution --- Mathematics

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Inverse scattering theory has been a particularly active and successful field in applied mathematics and engineering for the past twenty years. The increasing demands of imaging and target identification require new powerful and flexible techniques besides the existing weak scattering approximation or nonlinear optimization methods. One class of such methods comes under the general description of qualitative methods in inverse scattering theory. This textbook is an easily-accessible "class-tested" introduction to the field. It is accessible also to readers who are not professional mathematicians, thus making these new mathematical ideas in inverse scattering theory available to the wider scientific and engineering community.

Inverse problems (Differential equations) --- Scattering (Mathematics) --- Qualitative research. --- Problèmes inversés (Equations différentielles) --- Dispersion (Mathématiques) --- Recherche qualitative --- Engineering. --- Mathematics. --- Electrodynamics. --- Engineering mathematics. --- Materials. --- Appl.Mathematics/Computational Methods of Engineering. --- Applications of Mathematics. --- Continuum Mechanics and Mechanics of Materials. --- Classical Electrodynamics, Wave Phenomena. --- Electronic and Computer Engineering. --- Differential equations --- Calculus --- Applied Mathematics --- Civil Engineering --- Engineering & Applied Sciences --- Civil & Environmental Engineering --- Mathematics --- Physical Sciences & Mathematics --- Qualitative theory --- Qualitative theory. --- Scattering theory (Mathematics) --- 517.91 Differential equations --- Mathematical analysis. --- Analysis (Mathematics). --- Applied mathematics. --- Optics. --- Continuum mechanics. --- Electrical engineering. --- Analysis. --- Optics and Electrodynamics. --- Electrical Engineering. --- Electric engineering --- Engineering --- Mechanics of continua --- Elasticity --- Mechanics, Analytic --- Field theory (Physics) --- Dynamics --- Physics --- Light --- Engineering analysis --- Mathematical analysis --- 517.1 Mathematical analysis --- Math --- Science --- Boundary value problems --- Differential equations, Partial --- Scattering operator --- Global analysis (Mathematics). --- Mechanics. --- Mechanics, Applied. --- Computer engineering. --- Mathematical and Computational Engineering. --- Solid Mechanics. --- Classical Electrodynamics. --- Computers --- Classical mechanics --- Newtonian mechanics --- Quantum theory --- Applied mechanics --- Engineering, Mechanical --- Engineering mathematics --- Analysis, Global (Mathematics) --- Differential topology --- Functions of complex variables --- Geometry, Algebraic --- Design and construction