Building electro-optical systems : making it all work / Philip C.D. Hobbs.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hobbs, Philip C. D.

Series:

Wiley series in pure and applied optics.

Wiley series in pure and applied optics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Electrooptical devices--Design and construction.

Electrooptical devices.

Optical instruments.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (825 p.)

Edition:

2nd ed.

Place of Publication:

Hoboken, NJ : Wiley, c2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Praise for the First Edition ""Now a new laboratory bible for optics researchers has joined the list: it is Phil Hobbs's Building Electro-Optical Systems: Making It All Work.""-Tony Siegman, Optics & Photonics News Building a modern electro-optical instrument may be the most interdisciplinary job in all of engineering. Be it a DVD player or a laboratory one-off, it involves physics, electrical engineering, optical engineering, and computer science interacting in complex ways. This book will help all kinds of technical people sort through the complexit

Contents:

BUILDING ELECTRO-OPTICAL SYSTEMS; CONTENTS; Preface; Acknowledgments; 1 Basic Optical Calculations; 2 Sources and Illuminators; 3 Optical Detection; 4 Lenses, Prisms, and Mirrors; 5 Coatings, Filters, and Surface Finishes; 6 Polarization; 7 Exotic Optical Components; 8 Fiber Optics; 9 Optical Systems; 10 Optical Measurements; 11 Designing Electro-Optical Systems; 12 Building Optical Systems; 13 Signal Processing; 14 Electronic Building Blocks; 15 Electronic Subsystem Design; 16 Electronic Construction Techniques; 17 Digital Postprocessing; 18 Front Ends; 19 Bringing Up the System

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Notes:

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ISBN:

1-118-21109-X

1-282-23740-3

9786612237409

0-470-46633-2

1-61583-838-4

0-470-46632-4

OCLC:

441875025