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OPTICS

OPTICS:

• General: MIT Open Courseware:
  • 2.71/2.710 Optics by George Barbastathis et al. [2009 Spring]

• General: Introductory: Nelson 2002;

• General:
  • Dialogue about geometry and light by David Bermudez et al. [2015/06]
  • Electromagnetic Formalism of the Propagation and Amplification of Light by F. Javier Fraile-Pelaez and Andres Macho [2019/07]

• General: PROBLEM SETS FOR STUDENTS:
  • Heat and Light Problems by R. Wallace Stewart [London University Correspondence College, 1890]

• General: Reference: Photonics Dictionary; SPIE Optical Science Gateway;

• General: Computational:
  • Genetic Algorithms for Lens Design: A Review by Kaspar Höschel and Vasudevan Lakshminarayanan [2018/11]

• General: Mathematical Methods: REAL SYMPLECTIC GROUP: Arvind et al. 95/09
• Types: ATMOSPHERIC; NON-CLASSICAL; NON-LINEAR; PLASMONICS; QUANTUM;

• Type: ACTIVE:
  • Optical Design and Active Optics Methods in Astronomy by Gerard R. Lemaitre [2013/03]

• Type: ASTROPHOTONICS:
  • Astrophotonics: The Rise of Intergrated Photonics in Astronomy by Barnaby Norris and Joss Bland-Hawthorn [2019/09]

• Type: CAVITY:
  • The Thermodynamics of Light by Per Kristen Jakobsen [2018/05]
  • Quantum Magnetism, Spin Waves, and Light by Silvia Viola Kusminskiy [2018/07] Class notes for Master or advanced Bachelor students.

• Type: CHARGED PARTICLE: Khan 2002/10;

• Type: NANOPHOTONICS: Blencowe 2005/02;
  • Diamond Nanophotonics by Igor Aharonovich and Elke Neu [2014/08]
  • Magneto-Plasmonics and Resonant Interaction of Light with Dynamic Magnetisation in Metallic and All-Dielectric Nanostructures by Ivan S. Maksymov [2015/02]
  • Quantum Nanophotonics in Diamond by Tim Schröder et al. [2016/03]
  • Magneto-Plasmonic Nanoantennas: Basics and Applications by Ivan S. Maksymov [2016/01]
  • Hybrid nanophotonics by Sergey Lepeshov et al. [2018/02] In Russian.
  • Nano-Opto-Electro-Mechanical Systems by Leonardo Midolo et al. [Nature Nanotechnology 13, 11 (2018)]
  • Quantum Magnetism, Spin Waves, and Light by Silvia Viola Kusminskiy [2018/07] Class notes for Master or advanced Bachelor students.
  • Metasurface Holography: From Fundamentals to Applications by Lingling Huang et al. [Nanophotonics 7, 1169 (2018)]
  • Nanoscale Magnetophotonics by Nicolò Maccaferri et al. [2019/04]

• Type: NON-HERMITIAN:
  • Non-Hermitian Optics by Amarendra K. Sarma [2018/10]

• Type: OPTOMECHANICS:
  • Optomechanics (a brief review) by Florian Marquardt and S. M. Girvin [2009/05]
  • A short walk through quantum optomechanics by P. Meystre [2012/10]
  • Cavity Optomechanics by Markus Aspelmeyer et al. [2013/03]
  • Review of cavity optomechanical cooling by Yong-Chun Liu et al. [Chinese Physics B 22, 114213 (2013)]
  • Optoelectromechanical transducer: reversible conversion between microwave and optical photons by Lin Tian [2014/07]

• Applications: OPTICAL INSTRUMENTS;

• Aspects: COLOUR; INVISIBILITY/CLOAKING; METAMATERIALS; PHOTOMULTIPLIERS; POLARIMETRY; POLARIZATION OF LIGHT; RADIATION REACTION; REFRACTION; SLOW LIGHT;

• Aspects: ABERRATION:
  • The Aberration of Starlight by David P. Stern [Phy6 High-School Curriculum]
  • Seeing Earth's Orbit in the Stars: Parallax and Aberration by Todd K. Timberlake [2012/08]

• Aspects: ANGULAR MOMENTUM:
  • Spin-orbit interactions of light by K. Y. Bliokh et al. [2015/05]

• Aspects: ANTENNAE:
  • Aperture optical antennas by Jerome Wenger [2014/05]

• Aspects: CHIRALITY:
  • Chirality in photonic systems by D. Solnyshkov and G. Malpuech [2016/06]

• Aspects: COMPLEX MEDIA:
  • Light propagation and emission in complex photonic media by Willem L. Vos et al. [2015/04]

• Aspects: FREQUENCY COMBS:
  • Twenty Years of Developments in Optical Frequency Comb Technology and Applications by Tara Fortier and Esther Baumann [2019/09]

• Aspects: OPTICAL COMPUTING:
  • Linear optical quantum computing by Pieter Kok et al. [2005/12]
  • Lecture notes on Optical Quantum Computing by Pieter Kok [2007/05]
  • Optical Quantum Computing by Jeremy L. O'Brien [Science 318, 1467 (2007)]
  • Optical quantum memory by A. I. Lvovsky et al. [Nature Photonics 3, 706 (2009)]
  • Photonic Quantum Information Processing by Pieter Kok [2016/03]
  • Recent advances on integrated quantum communications by Adeline Orieux and Eleni Diamanti [Journal of Optics 18, 083002 (2016)]
  • Principles of Neuromorphic Photonics by Bhavin J. Shastri et al. [2018/01]
  • Photonic quantum information processing by Fulvio Flamini et al. [2018/03]
  • Photonic Quantum Information Processing: A Concise Review by Sergei Slussarenko and Geoff J. Pride [2019/07]
  • Renaissance of analogue optical computing by N. Stroev and N. G. Berloff [2023/01]
  • The Physics of Optical Computing by P. L. McMahon [2023/08]

• Aspects: DIFFRACTION:
  • Mathematical diffraction of aperiodic structures by Michael Baake and Uwe Grimm [2012/05]
  • What is Aperiodic Order? by Michael Baake et al. [2015/12]
  • Analytical Methods for Perfect Wedge Diffraction: A Review by Matthew A. Nethercote et al. [2019/05]
  • A tutorial on the classical theories of electromagnetic scattering and diffraction by M. Mansuripur [2020/09]

• Aspects: FOURIER METHODS:
  • Fourier optics: basic concepts by Stephane Perrin [2018/02]
  • Advancing Fourier: Space-Time Concepts in Ultrafast Optics, Imaging and Photonic Neural Networks by Luc Froehly et al. [2019/11]
  • Ubiquity of Fourier Transformation in Optical Sciences by Masud Mansuripur [2020/06]
  • Tutorial of Fourier transform for ultrafast optics by Y.-H. Chen [2024/12]

• Aspects: GUIDED WAVES:
  • Guided-Wave Optics by Boris A. Malomed [2017/09]

• Aspects: HOLOGRAPHY:
  • Metasurface Holography: From Fundamentals to Applications by Lingling Huang et al. [Nanophotonics 7, 1169 (2018)]

• Aspects: LATTICES:
  • Strongly correlated bosons and fermions in optical lattices by Antoine Georges and Thierry Giamarchi [Les Houches 2010]

• Aspects: LIGHT PROPAGATION: IN ABSORBENT MEDIA: Ramakrishna and Armour 2002/06;

• Aspects: LENSES:
  • Genetic Algorithms for Lens Design: A Review by Kaspar Höschel and Vasudevan Lakshminarayanan [2018/11]

• Aspects: LIGHT-IN-FLIGHT PHOTOGRAPHY:
  • A trillion frames per second: the techniques and applicarions of light-in-flight photography by Daniele Faccio and Andreas Velten [2018/08]

• Aspects: LOCALISATION:
  • Transverse Anderson localization of light: a tutorial review by Arash Mafi [2015/05]

• Aspects: NON-DIFFRACTING BEAMS: Bouchal 2003/09;

• Aspects: OPTOMECHANICS:
  • Optomechanics by Björn Kubala et al. [2009/02]
  • A short walk through quantum optomechanics by P. Meystre [2012/10]

• Aspects: PHOTOGRAMMETRY and SCANNING:
  • 3D Scanning: A Comprehensive Survey by Morteza Daneshmand et al. [2018/01]

• Aspects: RAINBOW:
  • Descartes-Newton-Young Rainbow by Aleksei Panov [2018/11] In Russian.

• Aspects: REFLECTION COEFFICIENTS:
  • RF engineering basic concepts: the Smith chart by F. Caspers [2012/01]

• Aspects: SLOW and FAST LIGHT:
  • Electromagnetic Formalism of the Propagation and Amplification of Light by F. Javier Fraile-Pelaez and Andres Macho [2019/07]

• Aspects: SOLITONS:
  • Localized Structures in Dissipative Media: From Optics to Plant Ecology by Mustapha Tlidi et al. [2014/08]
  • Instabilities, breathers and rogue waves in optics by John M. Dudley et al. [Nature Photonics 8, 755 (2014)]

• Aspects: SPIN:
  • Spin-orbit interactions of light by K. Y. Bliokh et al. [2015/05]

• Aspects: SPIN-NOISE SPECTROSCOPY:
  • Spin noise spectroscopy: From proof of the principle to applications by Valerii S. Zapasskii [2013/03]

• Aspects: STROBOSCOPES:
  • Differential Stroboscope for Physics Lab by Raju Baddi [2012/05]

• Aspects: TWEEZERS:
  • Theory and Practice of Simulation of Optical Tweezers by Ann A. M. Bull et al. [Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy & Radiative Transfer 195, 66 (2017)]
  • Tutorial on Optical Forces in Optical Tweezers by Antonio Alvaro Ranha Neves and Carlos Lenz Cesar [2019/02]
  • Plasmonic Optical Tweezers Based on Nanostructures: Fundamentals, Advances and Prospects by Domna G. Kotsifaki and Síle Nic Chormaic [2019/05]
  • Optical tweezers: A comprehensive tutorial from calibration to applications by J. Giesleler et al. [2020/04]

• Aspects: UNUSUAL WAVE PHENOMENA:
  • Instabilities, breathers and rogue waves in optics by John M. Dudley et al. [Nature Photonics 8, 755 (2014)]

• Re: EXCITONS:
  • Topical Review: optics of exciton-plasmon nanomaterials by Maxim Sukharev and Abraham Nitzan [2017/04]

• Re: GENERAL RELATIVITY: Shore 2003/04;

• Re: MAGNETISM:
  • Quantum Magnetism, Spin Waves, and Light by Silvia Viola Kusminskiy [2018/07] Class notes for Master or advanced Bachelor students.

• Re: MINERALOGY: (see also CRYSTALLOGRAPHY): University of British Columbia 97/08; Breitenbach 2002; Nelson 2002;

• Re: NANOMATERIALS:
  • Topical Review: optics of exciton-plasmon nanomaterials by Maxim Sukharev and Abraham Nitzan [2017/04]

• Re: NEURAL NETS:
  • Principles of Neuromorphic Photonics by Bhavin J. Shastri et al. [2018/01]

• Re: PARTICLE BEAMS:
  • Introduction to optics and lasers for beam instrumentation by S. Gibson [2018/06]

• Re: PLASMONICS:
  • Magneto-Plasmonics and Resonant Interaction of Light with Dynamic Magnetisation in Metallic and All-Dielectric Nanostructures by Ivan S. Maksymov [2015/02]

• Re: SPIN HALL EFFECT:
  • Chirality in photonic systems by D. Solnyshkov and G. Malpuech [2016/06]

• Re: THERMODYNAMICS:
  • The Thermodynamics of Light by Per Kristen Jakobsen [2018/05]

• Re: TOPOLOGY:
  • Chirality in photonic systems by D. Solnyshkov and G. Malpuech [2016/06]
  • Topological Photonics by Tomoki Ozawa et al. [2018/02]
  • Advances in Synthetic Gauge Fields for Light Through Dynamic Modulation by Daniel Hey and Enbang Li [2018/03]

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