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Record Nr.

UNINA9910778064903321

Autore

Hobbs Philip C. D

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Hoboken, NJ, : Wiley, c2009

ISBN

1-118-21109-X

1-282-23740-3

9786612237409

0-470-46633-2

1-61583-838-4

0-470-46632-4

Edizione

[2nd ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (825 p.)

Collana

Wiley series in pure and applied optics

Disciplina

621.381/045

621.381045

Soggetti

Electrooptical devices - Design and construction

Optical instruments

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

Appendix: Good BooksIndex

Sommario/riassunto

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