Progress in Optics (eBook)

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2011 | 1. Auflage
457 Seiten
Elsevier Science (Verlag)
978-0-08-096236-8 (ISBN)

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Progress in Optics Volume 8

Inhalt

Front Cover 1
Progress in Optics, Volume VIII 4
Copyright Page 5
CONTENTS 10
CHAPTER 1. SYNTHETIC-APERTURE OPTICS 16
1. Introduction 18
2. Interferometry 19
3. Feedback-Controlled Optics 36
4. Imaging with Partially Filled Apertures 41
5. Aperture Synthesis with Coherent Illumination 47
6. Object Restoration beyond the Diffraction Limit 54
7. Aperture Synthesis by Use of a Priori Information 59
8. Concluding Remarks 62
Acknowledgments 62
References 63
CHAPTER 2. THE OPTICAL PERFORMANCE OF THE HUMAN EYE 66
1. Introduction, Investigative Approaches 68
2. The Anatomy and Physiology of the Retina 70
3. Basic Concepts: Lines, Points and Borders 77
4. Visual Acuity, Resolving Power and Contrast and Modulation Sensitivity 81
5. Spread and Transfer Functions 86
6. Psychophysical Techniques 99
7. Determination of the Modulation Transfer Function for the Retina 104
8. Perceived Modulation of a Sine-Wave Grating at Suprathreshold Levels 114
9. Determination of the Modulation Transfer Function of the Optical System of the Eye 115
10. Resolving Power at Unit Modulation 121
11. Dependence of the Resolving Power on Wavelength Composition 125
12. Visibility of Square-Wave Gratings 131
13. The Visibility of a Bar 135
14. The Visibility of Borders 138
15. Retinal Reflectometry 139
16. Aberrations of the Eye 141
17. Motor Adjustments of the Eye 142
18. General Reviews 143
Appendix I 143
References 144
CHAPTER 3. LIGHT BEATING SPECTROSCOPY 148
1. Introduction 150
2. The Theory of Light Beating Spectroscopy 156
3. Light Scattering Theory 169
4. Coherence and Signal to Noise Considerations 178
5. Apparatus and Procedure 199
6. Review of Rayleigh Linewidth Experiments 205
7. Conclusions 211
References 212
CHAPTER 4. MULTILAYER ANTIREFLECTION COATINGS 216
1. Introduction 218
2. Single Layer Antireflection Coatings 220
3. Two-Layer Antireflection Coatings on Glass 221
4. The Design Method of Effective Interfaces 225
5. Two-Layer Antireflection Coatings on High-Index Substrate 227
6. Three-Layer Antireflection Coatings on High-Index Substrate 229
7. Three- and Four-Layer Antireflection Coatings on Glass 232
8. Synthesized Layers 237
9. The Coating of Reflection Reducing Multilayers 239
10. Environmental Stability of Multilayer Antireflection Coatings 240
11. Optical Performance of Coatings and Increase in Transmission Through an Optical System 240
12. Photographic Applications 245
13. Suppression of Stray Light in an Optical System 246
References 251
CHAPTER 5. STATISTICAL PROPERTIES OF LASER LIGHT 254
1. Introduction 256
2. Semiclassical Theory 259
3. Solution of the Laser Fokker-Planck Equation 267
4. Photoelectron Counting Distribution 279
5. Fully Quantum Mechanical Theory 287
References 306
CHAPTER 6. COHERENCE THEORY OF SOURCE-SIZE COMPENSATION IN INTERFERENCE MICROSCOPY 310
1. Introduction 312
2. General Theory of Two-Beam Interference Microscopes 315
3. Coherence Diffraction Theory of Image Formation and Two-Beam Interference 321
4. Localization of Fringes with Partially Coherent Light 330
5. Source-Size Compensation 332
6. Practical Methods of Source-Size Compensation in Shearing Interference Microscope with Polarized Light 336
7. Images of Source-Size Compensated Interference Microscopes 346
8. Conclusion 353
References 353
CHAPTER 7. VISION IN COMMUNICATION 358
1. Basic Concepts 360
2. Brightness Function 362
3. Spatial Frequency Response 366
4. Noise in the Visual System 374
5. Shape of MTF, Linearity and Stationarity 380
Acknowledgments 383
Appendix: Methods of Measuring the MTF of the Total Visual System above Threshold 383
References 385
CHAPTER 8. THEORY OF PHOTOELECTRON COUNTING 388
1. Introduction 390
2. Photoelectron Counting Formula 392
3. Intensity Fluctuations 399
4. Photocounting Distribution 414
5. Dead Time Effects 426
6. Multiple Correlations 433
7. Inversion Problem 438
8. Two Photon Absorption 444
Appendix: A Some Properties of Complex Gaussian Distributions 446
Appendix: B Solution of an Integral Equation 449
References 452
Author Index 456
Subject Index 463

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 21.9.2011
• Mitarbeit: Herausgeber (Serie): Emil Wolf
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Optik
• Themenwelt: Technik
• ISBN-10: 0-08-096236-X / 008096236X
• ISBN-13: 978-0-08-096236-8 / 9780080962368