Handbook of optical sensors /

Handbook of Optical Sensors provides a comprehensive and integrated view of optical sensors, addressing the fundamentals, structures, technologies, applications, and future perspectives. Featuring chapters authored by recognized experts and major contributors to the field, this essential reference:...

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Corporate Author: Taylor & Francis
Other Authors: Santos, José Luís (Editor), Farahi, Faramarz (Editor), Abolbashari, Mehrdad (Contributor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Boca Raton, Florida : CRC Press, [2015]
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Summary:Handbook of Optical Sensors provides a comprehensive and integrated view of optical sensors, addressing the fundamentals, structures, technologies, applications, and future perspectives. Featuring chapters authored by recognized experts and major contributors to the field, this essential reference: Explains the basic aspects of optical sensors and the principles of optical metrology, presenting a brief historical review; Explores the role of optical waveguides in sensing and discusses sensor technologies based on intensity and phase modulation, fluorescence, and plasmonic waves; Describes wavefront sensing, multiphoton microscopy, and imaging based on optical coherence tomography; Covers optical fiber sensing, from light guiding in standard and microstructured optical fibers to sensor multiplexing, distributed sensing, and fiber Bragg grating; Offers a broad perspective of the field and identifies trends that could shape the future, such as metamaterials and entangled quantum states of light.
Physical Description:1 online resource (xviii, 699 pages) : illustrations
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9781439866863
1439866864
1322623678
9781322623672
1439866856
9781439866856