Coherence of Light
Author : Jan Perina
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 19,92 MB
Release : 1985-08-31
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9789027720047
Author : Jan Perina
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 19,92 MB
Release : 1985-08-31
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9789027720047
Author : Emil Wolf
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 45,18 MB
Release : 2007-10-11
Category : Science
ISBN : 0521822114
All optical fields undergo random fluctuations. They may be small, as in the output of many lasers, or they may be appreciably larger, as in light generated by thermal sources. The underlying theory of fluctuating optical fields is known as coherence theory. An important manifestation of the fluctuations is the phenomenon of partial polarization. Actually, coherence theory deals with considerably more than fluctuations. Unlike usual treatments, it describes optical fields in terms of observable quantities and elucidates how such quantities, for example, the spectrum of light, change as light propagates. This book is the first to provide a unified treatment of the phenomena of coherence and polarization. The unification has been made possible by very recent discoveries, largely due to the author of this book. The subjects treated in this volume are of considerable importance for graduate students and for research workers in physics and in engineering, who are concerned with optical communications, with propagation of laser beams through fibers and through the turbulent atmosphere, with optical image formation, particularly in microscopes, and with medical diagnostics, for example. Each chapter contains problems to aid self-study. Book jacket.
Author : Pietro Ferraro
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 28,15 MB
Release : 2011-02-09
Category : Science
ISBN : 3642158137
This book deals with the latest achievements in the field of optical coherent microscopy. While many other books exist on microscopy and imaging, this book provides a unique resource dedicated solely to this subject. Similarly, many books describe applications of holography, interferometry and speckle to metrology but do not focus on their use for microscopy. The coherent light microscopy reference provided here does not focus on the experimental mechanics of such techniques but instead is meant to provide a users manual to illustrate the strengths and capabilities of developing techniques. The areas of application of this technique are in biomedicine, medicine, life sciences, nanotechnology and materials sciences.
Author : Leonard Mandel
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 1200 pages
File Size : 42,73 MB
Release : 1995-09-29
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780521417112
This book presents a systematic account of optical coherence theory within the framework of classical optics, as applied to such topics as radiation from sources of different states of coherence, foundations of radiometry, effects of source coherence on the spectra of radiated fields, coherence theory of laser modes, and scattering of partially coherent light by random media.
Author : Dieter Meschede
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 563 pages
File Size : 30,48 MB
Release : 2017-06-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 3527413316
Dieses Buch ist genau richtig für Einsteiger in das Fachgebiet. Schwierige Effekte werden direkt und leicht verständlich präsentiert. Diese aktualisierte, erweiterte Auflage bietet neue Kapitel zu neuen Themen wie Plasmonik, Frequenzkämme auf Femto-Ebene und Quantenkaskadenlaser
Author : Werner Lauterborn
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 22,84 MB
Release : 2013-03-09
Category : Science
ISBN : 3662052733
Since the advent of the laser, coherent optics has developed at an ever increasing pace. There is no doubt about the reason. Coherent light, with its properties so different from the light we are surrounded by, lends itself to numerous applications in science, technology, and life. The bandwidth of coherent optics reaches from holography and interferometry, with its gravitational wave detectors, to the CD player for music, movies, and computers; from the laser scalpel, which allows surgical cutting in the interior of the eye without destruction of the layers penetrated in front of it, to optical information and data processing with its great impact on society. According to its importance, the foundations of coherent optics should be conveyed to students of natural sciences as early as possible to better prepare them for their future careers as physicists or engineers. The present book tries to serve this need: to promote the foundations of coherent optics. Special attention is paid to a thorough presentation of the fundamentals. This should enable the reader to follow the contemporary literature from a firm basis. The wealth of material, of course, makes necessary a restriction of the topics included. Therefore, from the main areas of optics, wave optics and the classical description oflight is given most ofthe space available. The book starts with a quick trip through the history of physics from the viewpoint of optics.
Author : Arthur Frank Harvey
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 1378 pages
File Size : 15,75 MB
Release : 1970
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN :
Author : Andreas Maier
Publisher : Springer
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 27,16 MB
Release : 2018-08-02
Category : Computers
ISBN : 3319965204
This open access book gives a complete and comprehensive introduction to the fields of medical imaging systems, as designed for a broad range of applications. The authors of the book first explain the foundations of system theory and image processing, before highlighting several modalities in a dedicated chapter. The initial focus is on modalities that are closely related to traditional camera systems such as endoscopy and microscopy. This is followed by more complex image formation processes: magnetic resonance imaging, X-ray projection imaging, computed tomography, X-ray phase-contrast imaging, nuclear imaging, ultrasound, and optical coherence tomography.
Author : Leonard Mandel
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 1200 pages
File Size : 26,63 MB
Release : 1995-09-29
Category : Science
ISBN : 1139643029
This book presents a systematic account of optical coherence theory within the framework of classical optics, as applied to such topics as radiation from sources of different states of coherence, foundations of radiometry, effects of source coherence on the spectra of radiated fields, coherence theory of laser modes, and scattering of partially coherent light by random media. The book starts with a full mathematical introduction to the subject area and each chapter concludes with a set of exercises. The authors are renowned scientists and have made substantial contributions to many of the topics treated in the book. Much of the book is based on courses given by them at universities, scientific meetings and laboratories throughout the world. This book will undoubtedly become an indispensable aid to scientists and engineers concerned with modern optics, as well as to teachers and graduate students of physics and engineering.
Author : Zbigniew Ficek
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 427 pages
File Size : 40,65 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Science
ISBN : 0387229655
This book brings together and discusses for the first time detailed analyses of the experiments with trapped ions, experiments on quantum beats, coherent population trapping, electromagnetically induced transparency (EIT), electromagnetically induced absorption, creation of dark-states polaritons, subluminal and superluminal light, realization of a Fock state, and interference experiments in atom optics on atom grating, momentum distribution, and atom tunneling. This book is unique in many respects and will fill a gap in the literature.