Discusses radiative transfer in participating media, focusing on key concepts like attenuation, extinction coefficients, and the radiative transfer equation.
Explores the theoretical framework behind interband optical absorption in direct bandgap semiconductors, including the derivation of transition rates and absorption coefficients.
Discusses the optical properties of semiconductors, focusing on absorption coefficients and the differences between direct and indirect semiconductors.
Explores photoabsorption, attenuation length, and subsequent processes, discussing the relationship between refractive index and absorption, electromagnetic fields, and important material properties.
Introduces fundamental concepts of fluorescence in microscopy, covering terms like excitation and emission spectra, Stokes shift, quantum efficiency, brightness, and photobleaching.