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This volume presents the Proceedings of "New Development in Optics and Related Fields," held in Erice, Sicily, Italy, from the 6th to the 21st of June, 2005. This meeting was organized by the International School of Atomic and Molecular Spectroscopy of the "Ettore Majorana" Center for Scientific Culture.
The purpose of this Institute was to provide a comprehensive and coherent treatment of the new techniques and contemporary developments in optics and related fields. Several lectures of the course addressed directly the technologies required for the detection and identification of chemical and biological threats; other lectures considered the possible applications of new techniques and materials to the detection and identification of such threats.
Each lecturer developed a coherent section of the program starting at a somewhat fundamental level and ultimately reaching the frontier of knowledge in the field in a systematic and didactic fashion.
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Advances in Spectroscopy for Lasers and Sensing
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Advances in Spectroscopy for Lasers and Sensing edited by
Baldassare Di Bartolo Boston College, Chestnut Hiil, MA , U.S.A.
and
Ottavio Forte Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA, U.S.A.
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Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Study Institute on New Developments in Optics and Related Fields Erice, Sicily, Italy 6-21 June, 2005
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