Optical Components Techniques and Systems in Engineering

Meeting the needs of experienced professionals and newcomers to the field this volume presents major optical measurement procedures-including new work from the authors' laboratory-and offers critical background on optical components and systems giving access to essential information on modern optics gathered from a range of literature sources. This resource fully describes the capabilities and applications of semiconductor laser diodes used in fiber optics communications and sensors. refracting diffracting reflecting thin-film and polarization elements. optical metrology. Fourier transform processing image subtraction and other operations. coherent and incoherÂent fiber optic sensors. and more. This self-study aid also supplies explanatory illustrations display equations simplified discussions and briefly reviews optical surface sensing surface evaluation ellipsometry and laser anemometry. This guide works as a vital reference for optical laser photo-optical electrical mechaniÂcal and industrial engineers; optical physicists; photonic scientists; metrologists; and holographers; and serves as a useful text for graduate students in applied optics training programs or courses. . Language: English