This book provides readers the fundamentals of optical metrology for precision engineering. The next-generation measurement technologies based on ultrashort pul

Optical methods, stimulated by the advent of inexpensive and reliable lasers, are assuming an increasingly important role in the field of engineering metrology.

Advances in engineering precision have tracked with technological progress for hundreds of years. Over the last few decades, precision engineering has been the

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