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Progress in Optics, Volume 69 is the latest release in a yearly publication that provides in-depth reviews on topics in experimental theoretical optics, as well as on optical engineering.The book's intended audience are researchers and graduate students.

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: ScienceDirect (Online service)
Other Authors: Visser, Taco (Editor), Alù, Andrea (Contributor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London, England : Academic Press 2024.
Academic Press, [2024]
Edition:First edition.
Series:Progress in Optics Series ; Volume 69
Subjects:
Optics.
Optique.
optics.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • 7 Similarity between the PSF in the original use and the PSF when object and image are interchanged
  • 7.1 Similarity between PSFs as conventional general law
  • 7.2 Similarity between PSFs for an on-axis object point
  • 8 Using the direction cosine as pupil coordinate, and discussion from a viewpoint of propagation of plane waves
  • 8.1 ASF by using the direction cosine as pupil coordinate
  • 8.2 Discussing the ASF from a viewpoint of propagation of plane waves
  • 8.3 Reciprocity in scalar imaging theory
  • 8.4 Sine condition from a viewpoint of propagation of plane waves
  • 9 Fourier imaging theory
  • 9.1 Coherent illumination
  • 9.2 Partially coherent illumination
  • 9.3 Relation between consistent scalar imaging theory and rigorous vector imaging theory
  • 10 Non-isoplanatic imaging
  • 10.1 Energy conservation between pupil and image and correspondence principle
  • 10.2 ASF in original usage and ASF in inverse usage
  • 10.3 Reciprocity in non-isoplanatic imaging
  • 11 Off-axis object point
  • 11.1 Pupil coordinates and the sine condition for off-axis object point
  • 11.2 ASF for an off-axis object point
  • 11.3 Similarity between the PSF in original usage and the PSF in inverse direction usage
  • 12 Summary
  • Acknowledgments
  • Appendix A Deriving Eq. (10) by using the stationary phase method
  • Appendix B Deriving lateral aberration by differentiating the wavefront aberration with respect to the pupil coordinates, defined as the direction cosines of a ray
  • Appendix C Similarity between ASFs when not introducing both inclination factors
  • References
  • Chapter Three: Single and few-photon detection using superconducting transition edge sensors
  • 1 Introduction
  • 2 Single photons and their detection
  • 2.1 What is a photon?
  • 2.2 Types and performance of single-photon detectors
  • 3 Optical transition edge sensors
  • 3.1 Operating principle.