Books in the Optical Science and Engineering series

Fundamentals and Basic Optical Instruments includes thirteen chapters providing an introductory guide to the basics of optical engineering, instrumentation, and design.

Describes the major devices used in photonic systems. This book provides an overview of the field of photonics, detailing practical examples of photonic technology in a wide range of applications. It discusses photonic systems and devices.

Discusses the various aspects of acousto-optic deflectors, modulators and tunable filters, emphasizing hands-on procedures for design, fabrication and testing. This book covers acousto-optic device design and impedance matching that permits the actual design of real devices and device-matching circuits.

This book discusses the physics of plasma initiation and reviews the features of dissipating, propagating plasmas. It deals with advances in diagnostics for high-energy, laser-fusion plasmas. The book reviews the basic physical processes, plasma characteristics of the "continuous optical discharge".

"Offers and up-to-date assessment of the entire field of diffraction gratings, including history, physics, manufacture, testing, and instrument design. Furnishes--for the first time in a single-source reference--a thorough review of efficiency behavior, examining echelles as well as concave, binary, transmission, fiber, and waveguide gratings."

With 300 figures, tables, and equations, this book presents a unified approach to image quality research and modeling. It discusses how the results of different, calibrated psychometric experiments can be rigorously integrated to construct predictive software using Monte Carlo simulations.

Advanced Optical Instruments and Techniques includes twenty-three chapters providing processes, methods, and procedures of cutting-edge optics engineering design and instrumentation.

Presents optical techniques and measurement procedures, providing basic background information on optics and lasers, their components and basic systems. Contains information on thermal and laser sources, detectors, and recording materials, semi-conductor laser diodes, and optical techniques such as

This reference provides an overview of near-earth laser communication theory developments including component and subsystem technologies, fundamental limitations, and approaches to reach those limits. It covers basic concepts and state-of-the-art technologies, emphasizing device technology, implementation techniques, and system trades.

Covers speckle metrology and its value as a measuring technique in industry. This book also surveys the origin of speckle displacement and decorrelation, presents procedures for deformation analysis and shape measurement of rough objects, and explains particle image velocimetry (PIV).

Examines a broad spectrum of the topics in visual science, relating basic studies to applications and delineating points of intersection among the various disciplines that study the mechanisms of vision. This work discusses: the Purkinje-image eyetracker; the principles of high-definition television; and, the role of stabilized-image technology.

Covers methods and applications of digital image processing describing various computer architectures ideal for satisfying specific image processing demands.

This book discusses the techniques of processing and manipulating signals propagating in the optical domain. Photonic components essential for photonic processing systems are included as well as the representation of photonic circuits. This new edition will be fully revised and include four new chapters.

The current rapid and complex advancement applications of electromagnetic (EM) and optical systems calls for a much needed update on the computational methods currently in use. Completely revised and reflecting ten years of develoments, this second edition of the bestselling Computational Methods for Electromagnetic and Optical Systems provides the update so desperately needed in this field. Offering a wealth of new material, this second edition begins with scalar wave propagation and analysis techniques, chiral and metamaterials, and photonic band gap structures. It examines Pontying vector and stored energy, as well as energy, group, and phase velocities; reviews k-space state variable formation with applications to anistropic planar systems; and presents full-field rigorous coupled wave analysis of planar diffraction gratings with applications to H-mode, E-mode, crossed gratings, single and multilayered diffraction grating analysis, and diffraction from anistropic gratings. Later chapters highlight spectral techniques and RCWA as applied to the analysis of dynamic wave-mixing in PR materials with induced transmission and reflection gratings and demonstrate the RCWA algorithm to analyze cylindrical and spherical systems using circular, bipolar cylindrical, and spherical coordinates. The book concludes with several RCWA computational case studies involving scattering from spatially inhomogeneous eccentric circular cylinders, solved in bipolar coordinates. Many of these examples apply the complex Poynting theorem or the forwardscattering (optical) theorem to validate numerical solutions by verifying power conservation. Using common computational tools such as Fortran, MATLAB, COMSOL, and RSOFT, the text offers numerous examples to illuminate the material, many of which employ a full-field vector approach to analyze and solve Maxwell''s equations in anisotropic media where a standard wave equation approach is intractable. Designed to introduce novel spectral computational techniques, the book demonstrates the application of these methods to analyze a variety of EM and optical systems.

Presents the advancements made in the level of achievable integration of optical circuits and components. This title highlights the commercial success of particular devices and introduces multiple facets of integrated optics.

Covers principles, applications, and issues pertaining to the various major electro-optical displays in use, with discussion of display evaluation characteristics and human factor topics. This work covers topics including: liquid crystal (LC) display properties, matrix addressing, and photoaddressing issues.

A basic reference presents the scientific and engineering principles of single-mode optical fibers. It provides discussions to reflect developments since the 1983 first edition.

Written in an easy-to-read style, this comprehensive guide examines the currentknowledge on opto-mechanical laser beam scanning technology

Presents practical tools for successfully implementing a laser safety program in various environments. Defining the elements of laser safety, this work covers training, control measures, personal protection equipment, the types of laser injuries that can occur, standard operating procedures to ensure safety, and tips and tools to avoid pitfalls.

This book provides an international perspective on the latest research on organic photovoltaics with contributions by leading experts. It offers a unified approach, providing a general overview and discussing mechanisms, modeling, systems, and devices. Discussions include sunlight capture, exciton diffusion and dissociation, interface properties, c

Focuses on the smart functions implemented in CMOS image sensors as well as the applications of these sensors. After discussing the history of smart CMOS image sensors, this book describes the fundamental elements of CMOS image sensors. It covers some optoelectronic device physics and introduces typical CMOS image sensor structures.

Fundamentals and Basic Optical Instruments includes thirteen chapters providing an introductory guide to the basics of optical engineering, instrumentation, and design.

This handbook explains principles, processes, methods, and procedures of optical engineering in a concise and practical way.

Examining theories, experimental methods, and practical formulas for exploration of the core topics in nonlinear optics, this text reflects advances in the analysis and modification of material properties for application in frequency conversion, optical switching and limiting, multiphoton absorption, and electro-optic effects.