Cover -- front cover -- copyright -- table of contents -- Contributors -- Preface -- Future Contributions -- Optics, Mechanics, and Hamilton-Jacobi Skeletons -- I. INTRODUCTION -- II. PROPERTIES OF SKELETONS -- III. SKELETONIZATION TECHNIQUES -- IV. OPTICS, MECHANICS, AND HAMILTON-JACOBI SKELETONS -- V. HOMOTOPY-PRESERVING MEDIAL SETS -- VI. EXAMPLES -- VII. CONCLUSION -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- REFERENCES -- Dynamic Force Microscopy and Spectroscopy -- I. INTRODUCTION TO DYNAMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY -- II. DYNAMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY IN AIR AND LIQUIDS -- III. NONCONTACT AFM IN VACUUM -- IV. DYNAMIC FORCE SPECTROSCOPY -- V. CONCLUSION -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- REFERENCES -- Generalized Almost-Cyclostationary Signals -- I. INTRODUCTION -- II. HIGHER-ORDER CHARACTERIZATION -- III. LINEAR TIME-VARIANT TRANSFORMATIONS OF GACS SIGNALS -- IV. SAMPLING OF GACS SIGNALS -- V. TIME-FREQUENCY REPRESENTATIONS OF GACS SIGNALS -- APPENDICES -- A -- B -- C -- D -- REFERENCES -- Virtual Optical Experiments -- I. INTRODUCTION -- II. MODULATION OF THE REFRACTIVE INDEX -- III. MEASUREMENT TECHNIQUES -- IV. MODELING OPTICAL PROBING TECHNIQUES -- V. VIRTUAL EXPERIMENTS AND THE OPTIMIZATION STRATEGY -- VI. FREE CARRIER ABSORPTION MEASUREMENTS -- VII. INTERNAL LASER DEFLECTION MEASUREMENTS -- VIII. INTERFEROMETRIC TECHNIQUES -- IX. CONCLUSION AND OUTLOOK -- REFERENCES -- Index -- Last Page.