This book is a collection of research papers exploiting optoelectronic methods in food, textile and geo sciences. There are numerous examples including meat and starch in the food sciences, textiles in museum sciences, and hydrology and botanical structure and ecology in the geo sciences. Some of the discoveries break new ground, such as the ecology of waterfalls and the colours of clays. The challenge is to build your own apparatus.
This book is a comprehensive introduction to the physics of intense laser-plasma interaction, motivated by applications in high-energy-density physics. For master’s and graduate students, it combines accessible theory with up-to-date developments and practical exercises.
