Lasers, Optics & Photonics Books

Ten Days in Physics That Shook the World
by Brian Clegg
Review
A Biography of the Pixel
by Alvy Ray Smith
Review
Bands and Photons in III-V Semiconductor Quantum Structures
by Igor Vurgaftman, Jerry R. Meyer, Matthew P. Lumb
Review
Linear and Nonlinear Optics
by Kitsakorn Locharoenrat
Review
Organic Electronics
by Stephen R. Forrest
Review
Nanophotonic Chemical Reactions
by Takashi Yatsui
Review
Introducing Photonics
by Brian Culshaw
Review
Introduction to Computer Holography
by Kyoji Matsushima
Review
Photonics and Fiber Optics
by Tarun Kumar Gangopadhyay, Pathik Kumbhakar and Mrinal Kanti Mandal
Introduction to Quantum Electronics and Nonlinear Optics
by Vitaliy V. Shtykov and Sergey M. Smolskiy
Review
Principles of Medical Imaging for Engineers
by Michael Chappell
Review
Modern Optics Simplified
by Robert D. Guenther
Review
Optical Communications
by Martin Sibley
Review
Handbook of Lasers
by Marvin J. Weber
Review
The World According to Physics
by Jim Al-Khalili
Review
Optical WDM Networks: From Static to Elastic Networks
by Devi Chadha
Review
Introduction to Optical Microscopy
by Jerome Mertz
Review
Optical Inspection of Microsystems Second Edition
by Wolfgang Osten
Review
Wavefront Shaping for Biomedical Imaging
by Joel Kubby, Meng Cui, Sylvain Gigan
Review
Holography: Principles and Applications
by Raymond K. Kostuk
Review
Computer Holography
by Tomoyoshi Ito and Tomoyoshi Shimobaba
Review
Harold Edgerton: Seeing the Unseen
by Deborah Douglas, Gus Kayafas, Ron Kurtz
Review
Optical Effects in Solids
by David B. Tanner
Review
Imaging Optics
by Joseph Braat and Peter Török
Review
Graphene Photonics
by I-Tan Lin, Jia-Ming Liu
Review
More Things in the Heavens
by Michael Werner and Peter Eisenhardt
Review
Lightwave Communications
by George C. Papen and Richard E. Blahut
Review
Vortex Laser Beams
by Alexey P. Porfirev, Victor V. Kotlyar
Review
Lasers, Death Rays, and the Long, Strange Quest for the Ultimate Weapon
by Jeff Hecht
Review
Principles of Solar Cells, LEDs and Related Devices: The Role of the PN Junction
by Adrian Kitai
Review
Quantum Nano-Photonics
by Baldassare Di Bartolo, Luciano Silvestri, Maura Cesaria, andJohn Collins
Review
Professor Maxwell’s Duplicitous Demon: The Life and Science of James Clerk Maxwell
by Brian Clegg
Review
The Laser Inventor: Memoirs of Theodore H. Maiman
by Theodore H. Maiman
Review
Fiber: The Coming Tech Revolution-and Why America Might Miss It
by Susan Crawford
Review
Understanding Optics with Python
by Vasudevan Lakshminarayanan, Hassen Ghalila, Ahmed Ammar, and L. Srinivasa Varadharajan
Review
Fundamentals of Optomechanics
by Daniel Vukobratovich and Paul Yoder
Review
Self-Organized Lightwave Networks: Self-Aligned Coupling Optical Waveguides
by Tetsuzo Yoshimura
Review
Engineering Optical Networks
by Sudhir Warier
Review
Fiber-Optic Sensors for Biomedical Applications
by Daniele Tosi and Guido Perrone
Review
Optical MEMS, Nanophotonics, and Their Applications
by Guangya Zhou and Chengkuo Lee
Review
The Consolations of Physics: Why the Wonders of the Universe Can Make You Happy
by Tim Radford
Review
Applications for Modern RF Photonics
by Preetpaul Singh Devgan
Review
Handbook of Optical Engineering, Second Edition, Two Volume Set (Optical Science and Engineering)
by Daniel Malacara-Hernández and Brian J. Thompson
Review
Organic Light-Emitting Materials and Devices
by Zhigang Rick Li
Review
Thermoplasmonics: Heating Metal Nanoparticles Using Light
by Guillaume Baffou
Review
Single and Multicomponent Digital Optical Signal Analysis (IOP Expanding Physics)
by Rishikesh Kulkarni and Pramod Rastogi
Review
Physics of Digital Photography (IOP Expanding Physics)
by Andy Rowlands
Review
The Design and Engineering of Curiosity: How the Mars Rover Performs Its Job
by Emily Lakdawalla
Review
Seeing: How Light Tells Us About the World
by Tom Cornsweet
Review
Nonlinear Optics: a student’s perspective: With python problems and examples
by Mark G. Kuzyk
Review
Handbook of Optical Metrology: Principles and Applications, Second Edition
by Toru Yoshizawa
Review
Light Sources, Second Edition: Basics of Lighting Technologies and Applications
by Spiros Kitsinelis
Review
Mapping the Heavens: The Radical Scientific Ideas That Reveal the Cosmos
by Priyamvada Natarajan
Review
Silicon Nanophotonics: Basic Principles, Present Status, and Perspectives, Second Edition
by Leonid Khriachtchev
Review
The Photomultiplier Handbook
by A G Wright
Review
Quantum Communications in New Telecommunications Systems (Networks and Telecommunications)
by Malek Benslama, Achour Benslama, and Skander Aris
Review
Quantum Photonics (Graduate Texts in Physics)
by Thomas P. Pearsall
Review
The Search For Earth’s Twin
by Stuart Clark
Review
Neuromorphic Photonics
by Paul R. Prucnal and Bhavin J. Shastri
Review
High-Resolution Electron Microscopy
by John C. H. Spence
Review
Quantum Optics and Nanophotonics (Lecture Notes of the Les Houches Summer School)
by Claude Fabre, Vahid Sandoghdar, Nicolas Treps and Leticia F. Cugliandolo
Review
Introduction to Fourier Optics
by Joseph Goodman
Review
Handbook of Visual Optics, Two-Volume Set
by Pablo Artal
Review
Information Photonics: Fundamentals, Technologies, and Applications
by Asit Kumar Datta, Soumika Munshi
Review
Observatories and Telescopes of Modern Times: Ground-Based Optical and Radio Astronomy Facilities since 1945
by David Leverington
Review
Computational Liquid Crystal Photonics: Fundamentals, Modelling and Applications
by Mohamed Farhat O. Hameed, Nihal F. F. Areed, and Salah Obayya
Review
Quantum Optics: Including Noise Reduction, Trapped Ions, Quantum Trajectories, and Decoherence (Advanced Texts in Physics)
by Miguel Orszag
Review
A Course in Classical Physics 4 – Waves and Light (Undergraduate Lecture Notes in Physics)
by Alessandro Bettini
Review
Statistical Optics (Wiley Series in Pure and Applied Optics)
by Joseph W. Goodman
Review
Introduction to Organic Electronic and Optoelectronic Materials and Devices, Second Edition
by Larry R. Dalton, Sam-Shajing Sun
Review
Computational Liquid Crystal Photonics: Fundamentals, Modelling and Applications
by Mohamed Farhat O. Hameed, Nihal F. F. Areed, Salah Obayya
Review
Optical Tweezers: Principles and Applications
by Philip H. Jones, Onofrio M. Maragò, and Giovanni Volpe
Review
Organic Electro-Optics and Photonics: Molecules, Polymers, and Crystals
by Larry R. Dalton, Peter Günter, Mojca Jazbinsek, O-Pil Kwon, and Philip A. Sullivan
Review
Holograms: A Cultural History
by Sean F. Johnston
Review
Fundamentals of Photonics and Physics: Volume 1
by David L. Andrews
Review
Advanced Functional Materials (Advanced Material Series)
by Ashutosh Tiwari, Lokman Uzun
Review
Light: A Radiant History from Creation to the Quantum Age
by Bruce Watson
Review
Light Sources, Second Edition: Basics of Lighting Technologies and Applications
by Spiros Kitsinelis
Review
Photonics and Electronics with Germanium
by Kazumi Wada and Lionel C. Kimerling
Review
Optics Essentials: An Interdisciplinary Guide
by Araz Yacoubian
Review
Nonlinear Optical Systems: Principles, Phenomena, and Advanced Signal Processing (Optics and Photonics)
by Le Nguyen Binh and Dang Van Liet
Review
Silicon Photonics Design: From Devices to Systems
by Lukas Chrostowski and Michael Hochberg
Review
Guided Wave Optics and Photonic Devices (Optics and Photonics)
by Shyamal Bhadra and Ajoy Ghatak
Review
Polarons
by David Emin
Review
Light Localisation and Lasing: Random and Quasi-random Photonic Structures
by Mher Ghulinyan and Lorenzo Pavesi
Review
OLED Fundamentals: Materials, Devices, and Processing of Organic Light-Emitting Diodes
by Daniel J. Gaspar and Evgueni Polikarpov
Review
Nonlinear Optics and Photonics
by Guang S. He
Review
Military Laser Technology and Systems (Optoelectronics)
by David H. Titterton
Review
Light Years: The Extraordinary Story of Mankind’s Fascination with Light
by Brian Clegg
Review
Laser-Induced Damage in Optical Materials
by Detlev Ristau
Review
Birefringent Thin Films And Polarizing Elements (2nd Edition)
by Martin W. McCall, Ian J Hodgkinson, and Qihong Wu
Review
Neutron Interferometry: Lessons in Experimental Quantum Mechanics, Wave-Particle Duality, and Entanglement
by Helmut Rauch and Samuel A. Werner
Review
X-Ray Diffraction: Modern Experimental Techniques
by Oliver H. Seeck and Bridget Murphy
Review
Galileo’s Telescope
by Massimo Bucciantini, Catherine Bolton, Franco Giudice, and Michele Camerota
Review
Eye of the Beholder – Johannes Vermeer, Antoni van Leeuwenhoek, and the Reinvention of Seeing
by Laura J. Snyder
Review
Invisible: The Dangerous Allure of the Unseen
by Philip Ball
Review
Phasing in Crystallography: A Modern Perspective
by Carmelo Giacovazzo
Review
Photochemistry and Photophysics: Concepts, Research, Applications
by Vincenzo Balzani, Paola Ceroni, and Alberto Juris
Review
Optical Devices in Ophthalmology and Optometry: Technology, Design Principles and Clinical Applications
by Michael Kaschke, Karl-Heinz Donnerhacke, and Michael Stefan Rill
Review
Optical Methods for Solid Mechanics: A Full-Field Approach
by Pramod K. Rastogi and Erwin Hack
Review
Electromagnetic Scattering by Particles and Particle Groups: An Introduction
by Michael I. Mishchenko
Review
Mathematical Understanding of Nature: Essays on Amazing Physical Phenomena and Their Understanding by Mathematicians
by V. I. Arnold
Review
Microlenses: Properties, Fabrication and Liquid Lenses
by Hongrui Jiang and Xuefeng Zeng
Review
Optical Antennas
by Mario Agio and Andrea Alù
Review
Vectorial Optical Fields: Fundamentals and Applications
by Zhan Qiwen
Review
Waves in Gradient Metamaterials
by Alexander B. Shvartsburg and Alexei A. Maradudin
Review
Wavelength Division Multiplexing: A Practical Engineering Guide
by Klaus Grobe and Michael Eiselt
Review
Lasers for Medical Applications: Diagnostics, Therapy and Surgery
by Helena Jelinkova
Review
Colloidal Quantum Dot Optoelectronics and Photovoltaics
by Gerasimos Konstantatos and Edward H. Sargent
Review
Handbook of Optical Dimensional Metrology (Series in Optics and Optoelectronics)
by Kevin Harding
Review
Smart Mini-Cameras
by Tigran V. Galstian
Review
How the Ray Gun Got Its Zap: Odd Excursions into Optics
by Stephen R. Wilk
Review
Functional Imaging by Controlled Nonlinear Optical Phenomena
by Keisuke Isobe, Wataru Watanabe, and Kazuyoshi Itoh
Review
Optical Thin Films and Coatings: From Materials to Applications
by Angela Piegari and Francois Flory
Review
Adaptive Optics for Biological Imaging
by Joel A Kubby
Review
Quantum Control of Multi-Wave Mixing
by Feng Wen, Min Xiao, Yanpeng Zhang
Review
A Course in Theoretical Physics
by P. J. Shepherd
Review
Handbook of Silicon Photonics
by Laurent Vivien and Lorenzo Pavesi
Review
Laser-Based Measurements for Time and Frequency Domain Applications: A Handbook
by Pasquale Maddaloni, Marco Bellini, and Paolo De Natale
Review
Fluorescence Microscopy: from Principles to Biological Applications
by Ulrich Kubitscheck
Review

Articles

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Optical Tech Would Update a Robot’s AI on the Fly
Electrons controlled by light
Light-activated gel could impact wearables, soft robotics, and more
Photon Bridge validates photonics architecture
Let there be light! DARPA seeking physics-defying photonic computers to supercharge AI
New Tech Reduces False Positives from Breast Ultrasounds
Event sensors bring just the right data to device makers
A flexible lens controlled by light-activated artificial muscles promises to let soft machines see
Can a Start-Up Make Computer Chips Cheaper Than the Industry’s Giants?
Muscle-Bound Micromirrors Could Bring Lidar to More Cars
Rethinking how robots move: Light and AI drive precise motion in soft robotic arm
Butterfly Wings Inspire Barrier-Breaking Nanotech
Scientists Shine a Laser Through a Human Head
Indian startup Pixxel to develop hyperspectral and infrared satellites for defense
Startups Bring More Light to Smartphone Cameras
AI Tools May Be Weakening the Quality of Published Research, Study Warns
Revolutionizing High-power Lasers with Large-scale Glass Faraday Elements
Sharper, safer, more inclusive medical imaging
Researchers Develop First-of-Its-Kind Quantum Gate for Enhanced Communication
New Quantum Sensors Promise Precision and Secrecy
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Imagia Processes Images with Zero Power Using Metasurfaces
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Millimeter Waves May Not Be 6G’s Most Promising Spectrum
Electronica: Universal video interface for Fraunhofer micro-displays
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Cat’s Eye Camera Can See Through Camouflage
Ultrasonic Chips Could Cut Interference in the IoT
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Photonic Chip Cuts Cost of Hunting Exoplanets
New Fiber Optics Tech Smashes Data Rate Record
Scaling Compute to Satiate AI
Pulsed Laser Deposition at Wafer Level Is a Game Changer
Quantum computers could soon speed the development of novel materials, catalysts, and drugs
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Exploring the Intersection of Neuronal Cultures, Robotics and AI
Exploring Wired Networks for Smart Pathways in Factories
6G Terahertz Devices Demand 3D Electronics
This self-driving startup is using generative AI to predict traffic
Why new blue OLEDs die young
Bright Idea: Hopkins Engineers Shine a Light to Reveal the Secret of Cell Membrane Organization
This Engineer’s Hardware Is Inspired by the Brain
Generating Power on Earth From the Coldness of Deep Space
Photoacoustic imaging gets flexible
A Nobel prize for electron-watchers