Optical sources, detectors, and systems : fundamentals and applications /

Optical Sources, Detectors, and Systems presents a unified approach, from the applied engineering point of view, to radiometry, optical devices, sources, and receivers. One of the most important and unique features of the book is that it combines modern optics, electric circuits, and system analysis...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Kingston, Robert Hildreth, 1928-
Corporate Author: ScienceDirect (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: San Diego : Academic Press, ©1995.
Series:Optics and photonics.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Blackbody radiation, image plane intensity, and units
  • Interaction of radiation with matter : Absorption, Emission, and Lasers
  • The semiconductor laser
  • The Ideal photon detector and noise limitations on optical signal measurement
  • Real detectors : vacuum photodiodes and photomultipliers, photoconductors, junction photodiodes, and avalanche photodiodes
  • Heterodyne or coherent detection and optical amplification
  • Systems 1, radiometry, communications, and radar
  • Systems 2, imaging.