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Military laser technology for defense : technology for revolutionizing 21st century warfare / / Alastair D. McAulay
| Military laser technology for defense : technology for revolutionizing 21st century warfare / / Alastair D. McAulay |
| Autore | McAulay Alastair D. |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Hoboken, New Jersey : , : Wiley, , [2011] |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (325 p.) |
| Disciplina |
623.4/46
623.446 |
| Soggetto topico |
Lasers - Military applications
Laser weapons |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN |
1-283-37443-9
9786613374431 1-118-01954-7 1-118-01953-9 1-118-01955-5 |
| Classificazione | TEC019000 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Military Laser Technology for Defense: Technology for Revolutionizing 21st Century Warfare; CONTENTS; PREFACE; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; ABOUT THE AUTHOR; PART I: OPTICS TECHNOLOGY FOR DEFENSE SYSTEMS; 1 OPTICAL RAYS; 1.1 PARAXIAL OPTICS; 1.2 GEOMETRIC OR RAY OPTICS; 1.2.1 Fermat's Principle; 1.2.2 Fermat's Principle Proves Snell's Law for Refraction; 1.2.3 Limits of Geometric Optics or Ray Theory; 1.2.4 Fermat's Principle Derives Ray Equation; 1.2.5 Useful Applications of the Ray Equation; 1.2.6 Matrix Representation for Geometric Optics; 1.3 OPTICS FOR LAUNCHING AND RECEIVING BEAMS
1.3.1 Imaging with a Single Thin Lens1.3.2 Beam Expanders; 1.3.3 Beam Compressors; 1.3.4 Telescopes; 1.3.5 Microscopes; 1.3.6 Spatial Filters; 2 GAUSSIAN BEAMS AND POLARIZATION; 2.1 GAUSSIAN BEAMS; 2.1.1 Description of Gaussian Beams; 2.1.2 Gaussian Beam with ABCD Law; 2.1.3 Forming and Receiving Gaussian Beams with Lenses; 2.2 POLARIZATION; 2.2.1 Wave Plates or Phase Retarders; 2.2.2 Stokes Parameters; 2.2.3 Poincar ́e Sphere; 2.2.4 Finding Point on Poincar ́e Sphere and Elliptical Polarization from Stokes Parameters; 2.2.5 Controlling Polarization; 3 OPTICAL DIFFRACTION 3.1 INTRODUCTION TO DIFFRACTION3.1.1 Description of Diffraction; 3.1.2 Review of Fourier Transforms; 3.2 UNCERTAINTY PRINCIPLE FOR FOURIER TRANSFORMS; 3.2.1 Uncertainty Principle for Fourier Transforms in Time; 3.2.2 Uncertainty Principle for Fourier Transforms in Space; 3.3 SCALAR DIFFRACTION; 3.3.1 Preliminaries: Green's Function and Theorem; 3.3.2 Field at a Point due to Field on a Boundary; 3.3.3 Diffraction from an Aperture; 3.3.4 Fresnel Approximation; 3.3.5 Fraunhofer Approximation; 3.3.6 Role of Numerical Computation; 3.4 DIFFRACTION-LIMITED IMAGING 3.4.1 Intuitive Effect of Aperture in Imaging System3.4.2 Computing the Diffraction Effect of a Lens Aperture on Imaging; 4 DIFFRACTIVE OPTICAL ELEMENTS; 4.1 APPLICATIONS OF DOEs; 4.2 DIFFRACTION GRATINGS; 4.2.1 Bending Light with Diffraction Gratings and Grating Equation; 4.2.2 Cosinusoidal Grating; 4.2.3 Performance of Grating; 4.3 ZONE PLATE DESIGN AND SIMULATION; 4.3.1 Appearance and Focusing of Zone Plate; 4.3.2 Zone Plate Computation for Design and Simulation; 4.4 GERCHBERG-SAXTON ALGORITHM FOR DESIGN OF DOEs; 4.4.1 Goal of Gerchberg-Saxton Algorithm 4.4.2 Inverse Problem for Diffractive Optical Elements4.4.3 Gerchberg-Saxton Algorithm for Forward Computation; 4.4.4 Gerchberg-Saxton Inverse Algorithm for Designing a Phase-Only Filter or DOE; 5 PROPAGATION AND COMPENSATION FOR ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE; 5.1 STATISTICS INVOLVED; 5.1.1 Ergodicity; 5.1.2 Locally Homogeneous Random Field Structure Function; 5.1.3 Spatial Power Spectrum of Structure Function; 5.2 OPTICAL TURBULENCE IN THE ATMOSPHERE; 5.2.1 Kolmogorov's Energy Cascade Theory; 5.2.2 Power Spectrum Models for Refractive Index in Optical Turbulence 5.2.3 Atmospheric Temporal Statistics |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910130871403321 |
McAulay Alastair D.
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| Hoboken, New Jersey : , : Wiley, , [2011] | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Military laser technology for defense : technology for revolutionizing 21st century warfare / / Alastair D. McAulay
| Military laser technology for defense : technology for revolutionizing 21st century warfare / / Alastair D. McAulay |
| Autore | McAulay Alastair D. |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Hoboken, New Jersey : , : Wiley, , [2011] |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (325 p.) |
| Disciplina |
623.4/46
623.446 |
| Soggetto topico |
Lasers - Military applications
Laser weapons |
| ISBN |
1-283-37443-9
9786613374431 1-118-01954-7 1-118-01953-9 1-118-01955-5 |
| Classificazione | TEC019000 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Military Laser Technology for Defense: Technology for Revolutionizing 21st Century Warfare; CONTENTS; PREFACE; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; ABOUT THE AUTHOR; PART I: OPTICS TECHNOLOGY FOR DEFENSE SYSTEMS; 1 OPTICAL RAYS; 1.1 PARAXIAL OPTICS; 1.2 GEOMETRIC OR RAY OPTICS; 1.2.1 Fermat's Principle; 1.2.2 Fermat's Principle Proves Snell's Law for Refraction; 1.2.3 Limits of Geometric Optics or Ray Theory; 1.2.4 Fermat's Principle Derives Ray Equation; 1.2.5 Useful Applications of the Ray Equation; 1.2.6 Matrix Representation for Geometric Optics; 1.3 OPTICS FOR LAUNCHING AND RECEIVING BEAMS
1.3.1 Imaging with a Single Thin Lens1.3.2 Beam Expanders; 1.3.3 Beam Compressors; 1.3.4 Telescopes; 1.3.5 Microscopes; 1.3.6 Spatial Filters; 2 GAUSSIAN BEAMS AND POLARIZATION; 2.1 GAUSSIAN BEAMS; 2.1.1 Description of Gaussian Beams; 2.1.2 Gaussian Beam with ABCD Law; 2.1.3 Forming and Receiving Gaussian Beams with Lenses; 2.2 POLARIZATION; 2.2.1 Wave Plates or Phase Retarders; 2.2.2 Stokes Parameters; 2.2.3 Poincar ́e Sphere; 2.2.4 Finding Point on Poincar ́e Sphere and Elliptical Polarization from Stokes Parameters; 2.2.5 Controlling Polarization; 3 OPTICAL DIFFRACTION 3.1 INTRODUCTION TO DIFFRACTION3.1.1 Description of Diffraction; 3.1.2 Review of Fourier Transforms; 3.2 UNCERTAINTY PRINCIPLE FOR FOURIER TRANSFORMS; 3.2.1 Uncertainty Principle for Fourier Transforms in Time; 3.2.2 Uncertainty Principle for Fourier Transforms in Space; 3.3 SCALAR DIFFRACTION; 3.3.1 Preliminaries: Green's Function and Theorem; 3.3.2 Field at a Point due to Field on a Boundary; 3.3.3 Diffraction from an Aperture; 3.3.4 Fresnel Approximation; 3.3.5 Fraunhofer Approximation; 3.3.6 Role of Numerical Computation; 3.4 DIFFRACTION-LIMITED IMAGING 3.4.1 Intuitive Effect of Aperture in Imaging System3.4.2 Computing the Diffraction Effect of a Lens Aperture on Imaging; 4 DIFFRACTIVE OPTICAL ELEMENTS; 4.1 APPLICATIONS OF DOEs; 4.2 DIFFRACTION GRATINGS; 4.2.1 Bending Light with Diffraction Gratings and Grating Equation; 4.2.2 Cosinusoidal Grating; 4.2.3 Performance of Grating; 4.3 ZONE PLATE DESIGN AND SIMULATION; 4.3.1 Appearance and Focusing of Zone Plate; 4.3.2 Zone Plate Computation for Design and Simulation; 4.4 GERCHBERG-SAXTON ALGORITHM FOR DESIGN OF DOEs; 4.4.1 Goal of Gerchberg-Saxton Algorithm 4.4.2 Inverse Problem for Diffractive Optical Elements4.4.3 Gerchberg-Saxton Algorithm for Forward Computation; 4.4.4 Gerchberg-Saxton Inverse Algorithm for Designing a Phase-Only Filter or DOE; 5 PROPAGATION AND COMPENSATION FOR ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE; 5.1 STATISTICS INVOLVED; 5.1.1 Ergodicity; 5.1.2 Locally Homogeneous Random Field Structure Function; 5.1.3 Spatial Power Spectrum of Structure Function; 5.2 OPTICAL TURBULENCE IN THE ATMOSPHERE; 5.2.1 Kolmogorov's Energy Cascade Theory; 5.2.2 Power Spectrum Models for Refractive Index in Optical Turbulence 5.2.3 Atmospheric Temporal Statistics |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910830703603321 |
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McAulay Alastair D.
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| Hoboken, New Jersey : , : Wiley, , [2011] | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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