It is a significant advantage that the author has written a text that can be used by practitioners in the field with a wide variety of backgrounds, from conventional physics to bio-physicists and photo-chemists.
Stephen C. Rand is the Director of the Center for Dynamic Magneto-optics at the University of Michigan (DYNAMO). For the past thirty years he has been a Professor of Physics, Applied Physics, and Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the UM Optics & Photonics Laboratory.