The Optics Encyclopedia

With about 100 expert articles in 5 volumes, this is both a comprehensive review as well as an introduction to the entire field. The contributions range from classical optics right up to the latest applications, including:
· IT and telecommunications
· Optical sensing and metrology
· Material processing
· Biomedicine
· Optical components and systems
· Laser design and technology.
The international editor team paid great attention to ensuring fast access to the information, and each carefully reviewed article features:
· an abstract
· a detailed table of contents
· continuous cross-referencing
· references to the most relevant publications in the field, and
· suggestions for further reading, both introductory as well as highly specialized.
In addition, a comprehensive index provides easy access to the enormous number of key words beyond the 100 headlines.
The result is a rapid reference for skilled professionals on all topics of modern photonics, while newcomers from physics and engineering will appreciate the readily comprehensible style and structure.

Highlights:
Atomic Cooling and Trapping, Harold Metcalf, Stony Brook, State Univ. NY, USA , Peter van der Straten, Debye Inst., Utrecht Univ., The Netherlands; Electrodynamics, J. David Jackson, Univ. of California at Berkeley, California, U.S.A.; Optical Design, Pantazis Mouroulis, California Inst. of Technology, Pasadena, USA; Geometric Optics, Roland Shack, Univ. of Arizona, Tucson, U.S.A.; Solid state Lasers, Tso Yee Fan, Lincoln Lab., Massachusetts Inst. of Technology, Lexington, USA; Digital Photography, Michael A.Kriss, Sharp Lab. of America, Camas, USA; Optical metrology, Peter de Groot, Zygo Corporation, Connecticut, USA; Physiological Optics, Martin Jüttner, Neuroscience Research Inst., Aston Univ., Birmingham, UK; Astronomical instrumentation and telescopes, Josef Fried, Max-Planck-Inst. for Astronomy, Heidelberg, Germany; X-ray Optics, Alan Michette, Dep. of Physics, King's College London, UK.
 
Optik ist eine der wichtigsten Grundlagentechnologien des 21. Jahrhunderts. Ob Kommunikationstechnik oder Materialbearbeitung - ohne Optik geht heute nichts mehr.

Weltweit anerkannte Spezialisten behandeln hier in 5 Bänden und in über 90 ausführlichen Übersichtsartikeln alle Aspekte moderner Optik von den theoretischen Grundlagen bis hin zu technischen Anwendungen in den Ingenieurdisziplinen oder den Naturwissenschaften. Und was in den Artikeln an Spezialwissen keinen Platz mehr gefunden hat, findet sich dann in den umfangreichen Literaturhinweisen am Ende jedes Beitrages.