Patrick Gill

This book discusses the latest research ideas with application to frequency standards (e.g. optical clocks) and assesses ideas from previous symposia which have undergone critical analysis. Contents:OPOs and IR StandardsCs Fountains and ComparisonsTrapped Ions IOptical Combs ICPT StandardsPrecision MeasurementsSpace ClocksCold Atom TechniquesMicrowave StandardsCold Atom Optical StandardsTrapped Ions IIStable Lasers and ApplicationsOptical Combs IIIR Standards IICaesium and Rubidium StandardsTrapped Ion Optical StandardsInfrared Standards IIIIodine-Stabilized Laser StandardsPresicion Measurements IICold Atom Optical Standards and TechniquesOptical Frequency Combs and Stable LasersMicrowave Standards and SynthesisSpace Clocks II1.5 μm Standards Readership: Graduate students and researchers in applied physics, low temperature physics, optics, condensed matter physics, astrophysics/astronomy/cosmology, quantum physics and earthquake engineering. Keywords:Optical Clocks;Caesium Fountain Clocks;Trapped Ion Standards;Optical Frequency Standards;Microwave Frequency Standards;Cold Atom Standards;Optical Frequency Measurement;Stabilised Lasers;Optical Frequency Combs;Femtosecond Combs;Space Clocks;Precision Measurements and Fundamental Constants;Microwave Frequency Synthesis;Optical Frequency Synthesis;Infra-Red Frequency Standards

Frequency Standards and Metrology

Florian Kläger

The first major collection of essays on the contemporary British short story cycle, this volume offers in-depth explorations of the genre by comparing its strategies for creating coherence with those of the novel and the short story collection, inquiring after the ties that bind individual short stories into a cycle. A section on theory approaches the form from the point of view of genre theory, cognitive literary studies, and book studies. It is followed by investigations of hitherto neglected aspects of the generic tradition of the British short story cycle and how they relate to the contemporary outlook of the form. Readings of individual contemporary cycles, illustrating the form’s multifaceted uses from the presentation of sexual identities to politics and trauma, make up the third and most substantial part of the volume, placing its focus squarely on the past decades. Unique in its combination of a focus on the literary traditions, politics and markets of the UK with a thorough examination of the genre’s manifold formal and thematic potentials, the volume explores what is at the heart of the short story cycle as a literary form: the constant negotiation between unity and separateness, collective and individual, of coherence and autonomy.

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