Optical engineering of diamond This is the first comprehensive book on the engineering of diamond optical devices. It will give readers an up to date account of the properties of optical quality synthetic diamond (single crystal nanodiamond and polycrystalline) and reviews the large and growing field of engineering of diamond based optical devices with applications in quantum computation nano imaging high performance lasers and biomedicine. It aims to provide scientists engineers and physicists with a valuable resource and reference book for the design and performance of diamond based optical devices