No comments about Three-Dimensional Television: Capture, Transmission, Display (Signals and Communication Technology) (Signals and Communication Technology).

No comments about Handbook of Lens Design (Optical Engineering Series, Vol 44).

No comments about Geometrical and Instrumental Optics (Experimental Methods in the Physical Sciences).

3 comments about Laser Optoacoustics.

1. This is the best, most comprehensive book of basic and applied material for optoacoustic phenomena that is currently available. Optoacoustic is a new rapidly growing technique, so this book should quickly become a standard text in optoacoustic discipline. Chapter 2 is worth the price alone.



2. If anybody knows where I could buy this book on Russian or French, please let me know.



3. It's a basic book in optoacoustic field. Biomedical optoacoustic is grown from this book

2 comments about Superconductivity, Superfluids, and Condensates (Oxford Master Series in Condensed Matter Physics).

1. As most of the books of this serie, this one is also a successful introduction to the desired subject.
   The text is very pedagogical and the author never avoids a calculation which leads to an important result. Every formula is generally commented in order to extract the physics behind.
   All the important subjects related to BEC are touched. The main core of the book seems ,for me, understandable by a good undergraduate student.
   Of course that won't make you a specialist of this wide subject which required a lot of knowledges from different parts of physics , but at least the most important things will be kwnown and you will have the sufficent stuff to go more deeply in the subject of your choice with the required litterature ( which may be found in the bibliography of the book).
   I think it deserves its five stars since the objectives of the books (being an clear introduction without being to light) are definitly reached. Definitly a nice book !



2. Judging from this volume, Annett seems to be a great teacher and a great writer.
   
   The distance between the material covered here and actual research is quite large, but that's OK, since the book is advertised as a pedagogical introduction, and it is really good at that.
   
   Every chapter includes a number of smartly-chosen problems, the solutions to which are given in an Appendix.
   
   I have given the book 4 stars instead of 5, because it suffers from horrendous copy-editing. Grammatical mistakes, typos in equations, wrong references to previous equations (and the list goes on). One gets the feeling that the publisher received the author's manuscript and published it as is. This makes it very difficult to understand why it's so expensive. Hopefully these errors will be removed in a future edition.

No comments about Super-radiance: Multiatomic Coherent Emission (Optics and Optoelectronics Series).

2 comments about Optical Fiber Fusion Splicing (Springer Series in Optical Sciences).

1. I bought this book looking for specific information about the process and physics of fusion splicing of optical fibers, I found it!!!



2. Very accurate and well written at different details levels, so can be fruitfully adopted from students, technicians, scientists.

No comments about Quantum Squeezing.

No comments about Theory of Nonclassical States of Light.

2 comments about Laser Physics.

1. why write a book that is so hard to read? I think that my cleverness is not enough to subtend the hard math.



2. I wouldn't say this book is hard to read, as the other reader claims. On the contrary I found this book to be very readable. It starts from the very basic quantum mechanics of wave function, introduces density matrix, then semi-classical laser theory (EM field interaction), even discusses relaxation phenomenon (see the nice appendix on the quantum langevin equation!), then presents the real quantum theory of light interaction with matter. Without doubt this is a classic work, and should easily be accessible to upper-year undergraduates. There are no major difficulties.