OpTic Gaming, the four-time Call of Duty Major League Gaming Champions and one of the top eSports teams in the world, now takes fans behind the controller—into the game and the minds of the greatest gamers in the world—in this fascinating and unique memoir and insider guide.Emerging on the scene in 2006, OpTic Gaming has dominated the Call of Duty e-sports arena, thanks to the talents of legendary players such as Matt “NaDeSHoT” Haag, the biggest eSports personality on earth; Seth ...

This book presents a systematic statistical approach to density estimation and clustering of multidimensional real-life spatial datasets, utilizing the density-based clustering methods, DBSCAN, and its extension, OPTICS. It compares their clustering performance to that of the traditional centroid-based K-means clustering algorithm, the hierarchical BIRCH clustering algorithm, and the hybrid two-step clustering algorithm (a combination of hierarchical and K-means), evaluating the quality of...

Winner of the 2006 Joseph W. Goodman Book Writing Award!A comprehensive treatment of the principles, mathematics, and statistics of image scienceIn today's visually oriented society, images play an important role in conveying messages. From seismic imaging to satellite images to medical images, our modern society would be lost without images to enhance our understanding of our health, our culture, and our world.Foundations of Im...

AERO-OPTICAL EFFECTSExplore the newest techniques and technologies used to mitigate the effects of air flow over airborne laser platformsAero-Optical Effects: Physics, Analysis and Mitigation delivers a detailed and insightful introduction to aero-optics and fully describes the current understanding of the physical causes of aero-optical effects from turbulent flows at different speeds. In addition to presenting a thorough discussi...

This graduate textbook unifies the presentation of new and well-established basic theory and experiments for the quantum properties of light. Quantum optics has become a major field of theoretical and experimental physics. Many of the key tests of unique quantum phenomena, such as entanglement, have been demonstrated in quantum optics experiments. It forms the basis of many quantum technologies from sensing to computation.This completely revised third edition enables graduate stude...

The updated third edition of the only textbook on colourThe revised third edition of Colour and the Optical Properties of Materials focuses on the ways that colour is produced, both in the natural world and in a wide range of applications. The expert author offers an introduction to the science underlying colour and optics and explores many of the most recent applications. The text is divided into three main sections: behaviour of light in homogeneous medi...

Covers the fundamental principles behind optomechanical designThis book emphasizes a practical, systems-level overview of optomechanical engineering, showing throughout how the requirements on the optical system flow down to those on the optomechanical design. The author begins with an overview of optical engineering, including optical fundamentals as well as the fabrication and alignment of optical components such as lenses and mirrors. The concepts of optomechani...

"Coherent and lucid…a valuable summary of a subject to which [the authors] have made significant contributions by their own research." — Contemporary PhysicsOffering an admirably clear account of the basic principles behind all quantum optical resonance phenomena, and hailed as a valuable contribution to the literature of nonlinear optics, this distinguished work provides graduate students and research physicists probing fields such as laser physics, quantum optics, nonline...

This book provides a concise and accessible guide to the spectroscopic measurement and analysis of trivalent rare-earth ions in glasses. As the demand for faster telecommunications, more efficient lasers, and smarter optical sensors accelerates, rare-earth-doped glasses have become a cornerstone of modern photonics and emerging quantum technologies. Fully harnessing their potential, however, requires a deep understanding of their spectroscopic behavior. Spectroscopy of rare-earth doped gla...

The Latest Advances in Optical Engineering and Lens TechnologyLong-established as the definitive optics text and reference, Modern Optical Engineering has been completely revised and updated to equip you with all the latest optical and lens advances. The Fourth Edition now contains cutting-edge information on optical engineering theory, design, and practice, including new chapters on ray tracing, optical system design, and third-order aberration theory.

Optical Radiation and Matter provides a deeper look at electricity and magnetism and the interaction of optical radiation with molecules and solid materials. The focus is on developing an understanding of the sources of light, how light moves through matter, and how external electric and magnetic fields can influence the way light waves propagate through materials.Classroom tested for over 30 years and now revised and expanded, this textbook provides introductory chapters ...

Rapidly Solidified Neodymium-Iron-Boron Permanent Magnets details the basic properties of melt spun NdFeB materials and the entire manufacturing process for rapidly solidified NdFeB permanent magnets. It covers the manufacturing process from the commercial production of the melt spun or rapidly solidified powder, to the production and properties of both isotropic bonded Nd and hot deformed anisotropic NdFeB magnets. In addition, the book discusses the development and history of bonded rare...