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Surface Emitting Quantum-Cascade Lasers with a Second-Order Grating and Elevated Coefficient of Coupling
AbstractA study is performed of features of surface-emitting quantum-cascade lasers with a ring resonator and second-order diffraction grating. The...
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Cylindrical Vector Beam of the Second Order in a Microstructured Waveguide
AbstractThe propagation of vector mode of the second-order in microstructured and gradient waveguides was numerically investigated applying the RSoft...
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Diffraction of Light
Problems on diffraction of lightDiffraction of light are solved in this last chapter. Diffraction is bending or spreading of lightLight at aperture...
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Diffraction and Reciprocal Space
This chapter introduces the concept of diffraction as a way of linking measurable macroscopic phenomena to microscopic ones.
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Quantum Diffraction: Emergence of the Quantum Substructure of Light
InYoung’ double slit, quantum formulation Diffraction, QED description this chapter we discuss an entirely quantum mechanical description of...
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Diffraction-Limited Optics and Techniques
The potential diffraction-limited angular resolution of an X-ray telescope with aperture diameter D = 1 m operating at 1 keV is Δθ ≈ λ∕D = 260 μ arc...
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A Second-Order Optical Differentiator Based on a Metal–Dielectric–Metal Composite Structure
AbstractThe optical properties of a composite structure consisting of two sequentially arranged three-layer metal–dielectric–metal (MDM) structures...
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What Huygens Could Have Written on Diffraction
This is a highly speculative chapter. As far as we know Huygens never said or wrote anything on diffraction. Yet Huygens’ principle is perfectly fit...
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X-Ray Diffraction Analysis for Starch
Starch is a polysaccharide generated by plants as a form of energy storage. The combination of the two macromolecules amylose and amylopectin, in...
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Diffraction Gratings for X-ray Astronomy
We briefly review the physical principles of diffraction grating spectrometers for astrophysical X-ray spectroscopy, in the context of the resolution...
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Angstrom-Beam Electron Diffraction Technique for Amorphous Materials
This chapter describes a direct measurement method called angstrom-beam electron diffraction that detects the local atomic arrangements of amorphous...
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A new neutral organic material DMPO with ultra-strong second-order nonlinear response and excellent anti-deliquescence
Nonlinear optical (NLO) organic materials with large optical nonlinearity and high stability are highly attractive for wide applications. Herein, a...
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Illumination-Coded Optical Diffraction Tomography
Optical diffraction tomography (ODT) is a label-free 3D light microscopy technique that utilizes refractive index (RI) distributions as a source of...
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Light Wave, Diffraction, and Holography
Optics can be mainly classified into three fields: geometric, wave, and quantum optics. Holography is based on wave optics and treats interference...
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Electron Diffraction
Diffraction phenomenon, in general, has been discussed in Chap. 2 earlier. We will now go into details of...
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High-Frequency Diffraction and Elongated Bodies
This chapter presents the classical boundary-layer method in its application to high-frequency diffraction problems. We discuss its drawbacks when...
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Diffraction
This chapter introduces the subject of diffraction—the key mechanism that determines how light propagates through the atmosphere and comes to final...
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Synthesis, growth, structure, experimental and theoretical characterization on a novel second-order nonlinear optical single crystal: Piperidin-1-ium 2-chloro-4-nitrobenzoate (P2CNB)
Piperidin-1-ium 2-chloro-4-nitrobenzoate (P2CNB), an organic second-order nonlinear optical material, was successfully synthesized, and single...
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Classical Diffraction and Diffractive Imaging
In contrast to conventional light, x-rays have allowed us to see the invisible. Invisibility may be caused by the lack of penetration of visible...
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Applications of Evolutionary Computation in Structure Determination from Diffraction Data
Evolutionary algorithms are finding increasing use in the study of a wide range of different types of diffraction data. In this chapter, we review...