Three broader themes cut across these application areas; vibration suppression (or active damping), adaptive structures and machines, and damage detection. This book focuses primarily on the first two areas, with relevant discussion relating to area damage detection being given when appropriate.

The authors discuss the interrelationship between three separate, but related areas; (i) linear vibration theory for multi-degree-of-freedom systems, (ii) nonlinear dynamics and chaos, and (iii) nonlinear control. No other book covers all three areas from a nonlinear vibration perspective and will fill this gap, and as such it will offer a new perspective on these topics, particularly in relation to the three themes identified above.

The volume will be accessible to practitioners in the application areas as well as students and researchers working on related topics. In particular the aim is to introduce the key concepts of nonlinear vibration to readers who have an understanding of linear vibration and/or linear control but no specialist knowledge in nonlinear dynamics or nonlinear control.

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Extent: 354pp
ISBN: 978-90-481-2836-5 (print) / (e-book)
Publication date: January 2010

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This book presents a comprehensive introduction to the Generalized Phase Contrast (GPC) method including an overview of the range of current and potential applications of the GPC in wavefront sensing and phase imaging, structured laser illumination and image projection, optical trapping and manipulation, and optical encryption and decryption. The GPC method goes further than the restrictive assumptions of conventional Zernike phase contrast analysis and achieves an expanded range of validity beyond weak phase perturbations. The generalized analysis yields design criteria for tuning experimental parameters to achieve optimal performance in terms of accuracy, fidelity and light efficiency. Optimization can address practical issues, such as finding an optimal spatial filter for the chosen application, and can even enable a Reverse Phase Contrast mode where intensity patterns are converted into a phase modulation.

This book is written for researchers and graduate students in optical sciences, particularly those interested in the novel applications of optical sensing and modulation techniques in contemporary optics and photonics.
Series: Springer Series in Optical Sciences

Authors’ website – Programmable Phase Optics: www.ppo.dk

Extent: Approx. 305pp
ISBN: 978-90-481-2838-9 (print) / (e-book)
Publication date: September 2009

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