This book describes the recently-discovered artificially curved light beam known as the photonic hook. Self-bending of light, a long-time goal of optical scient

The book contains the materials on the fundamental and applied problems of pulsed lasers. May be interesting for researches and engineers working in the sphere

A theoretical, self-contained study of periodic multilayers and how they can be effectively exploited in both traditional and modern applications.

Advances in photonics and nanotechnology have the potential to revolutionize humanitys ability to communicate and compute. To pursue these advances, it is manda

In this book the authors present several examples of techniques used to overcome the Abby diffraction limit using flat and 3D diffractive optical elements, phot