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The United Nations General Assembly proclaimed 2015 as the International Year of Light (IYL 2015). The IYL was to recognize the tremendous applications of light in our everyday lives: from the benefits of sunlight, to the intricate processes in our eyes, to holography, to fiber optic communications across oceans, to extremely important applications of lasers from eye surgery to drilling holes in steel and to numerous other areas. From its inception, The National Academy of Sciences, India (the oldest Science Academy in India) is committed to bringing scientific developments to the benefit of the society at large. Keeping this in mind, and as a part of the celebration of IYL 2015, the Academy entrusted the editors to bring out a book in which various aspects of light and light-based technologies will be lucidly described by experts with the aim to enthuse young students, teachers and the general public to get interested in studying more about light and be aware of its phenomenal applications. The editors were very fortunate to get a large number of experts to agree to contribute to this book. Of course, there are many other very interesting areas which could have been covered. We hope that the book will be able to enthuse the younger generation to study more about light.
Contents
Foreword • Preface • Message from the President, NASI • Contributors
Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: A Leading Light: J.C Bose and Table-top Experimental Science - Rajarshi Roy and Joseph D. Hart
Chapter 3: Light as the Basis of Life - Sukhdev Roy
Chapter 4: What Light tells us about the Universe - Patrick Das Gupta
Chapter 5: Sunlight and Human Health - V.P. Sharma
Chapter 6: Light Therapeutics and Indoor Light Environment - Frederick Marks and Satchidananda Panda
Chapter 7: Light Experiments to Understand Light - Rajpal S. Sirohi
Chapter 8: Simple Interesting Experiments with Photons - Ajoy Ghatak and Anirban Pathak
Chapter 9: Nonlinear Optics: The Good, the Bad and the Esoteric - K. Thyagarajan
Chapter 10: Light and Sight - Vasudevan Lakshminarayanan and Mahalakshmi Ramamurthy
Chapter 11: Light and Vision - Rishi Mohan, Madan Mohan and Indrish Bhatia
Chapter 12: Light and Plant Life - Naini Burman, Akanksha Bhatnagar and Jitendra P Khurana
Chapter 13: Optical Telescope - Rana Khan
Chapter 14: The Sun: Secrets Revealed - Rahul S. Chatterjee
Chapter 15: Lasers and their Applications - Debabrata Goswami
Chapter 16: The Optical Fiber - Ajoy Ghatak
Chapter 17: Trapping of Rainbow in Photonic Crystals and Photonic Crystal Fibers - Shyamal Kumar Bhadra
Chapter 18: Fiber Optic Sensors - Bishnu P. Pal and Parama Pal
Chapter 19: Optical Communication: Flaming Torch to Quantum Communication with Single Photons - Anirban Pathak
Chapter 20: High Speed Communication Using Light. - Raghunath K. Shevgaonkar
Chapter 21: Spectroscopy: The Drama of Light and Matter - Surya N. Thakur
Chapter 22: Applications of Raman Spectroscopy for Public Health - Shiv K. Sharma and Bhavya Sharma
Chapter 23: X-rays Enlighten Life - Yogavel Manickam and Amit Sharma
Chapter 24: Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) and Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) .. - Khushbu Agarwal and Naranamangalam RJagannathan
Chapter 25: 2-D and 3-D Images: A Simple Narrative - Anurag Sharma
Chapter 26: Holography and its Applications - Rajpal S. Sirohi
Chapter 27: Laser Speckles: Fundamental Properties and Some Applications - Kehar Singh
Chapter 28: Light and Light Based Technologies for a Bright and Sustainable Future - Ram Boojh
