ABSTRACT

The first edition of the Encyclopedia of Optical and Photonic Engineering provided a valuable reference concerning devices or systems that generate, transmit, measure, or detect light, and to a lesser degree, the basic interaction of light and matter. This Second Edition not only reflects the changes in optical and photonic engineering that have occurred since the first edition was published, but also:

Boasts a wealth of new material, expanding the encyclopedia’s length by 25 percent
Contains extensive updates, with significant revisions made throughout the text
Features contributions from engineers and scientists leading the fields of optics and photonics today
With the addition of a second editor, the Encyclopedia of Optical and Photonic Engineering, Second Edition offers a balanced and up-to-date look at the fundamentals of a diverse portfolio of technologies and discoveries in areas ranging from x-ray optics to photon entanglement and beyond. This edition’s release corresponds nicely with the United Nations General Assembly’s declaration of 2015 as the International Year of Light, working in tandem to raise awareness about light’s important role in the modern world.

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chapter |9 pages

Adjacency Effect

chapter |12 pages

Aerosols

chapter |10 pages

Antireflection Coatings

chapter |12 pages

Astronomy

chapter |15 pages

Astronomy: X-Ray

chapter |3 pages

Atmospheric Optics

chapter |7 pages

Automatic Target Recognition

chapter |16 pages

Biomedical Spectroscopy

chapter |12 pages

Biometrics

chapter |16 pages

Biopsy: Optical

chapter |13 pages

Birefringence

chapter |9 pages

Cavity Quantum Electrodynamics

chapter |9 pages

Coherence

chapter |16 pages

Coherence Theory

chapter |6 pages

Complex Variables

chapter |7 pages

Crystallography: X-Ray

chapter |23 pages

Data Storage: Holographic

chapter |8 pages

Diffractive Optics

chapter |7 pages

Diffractive Optics: Methods

chapter |9 pages

Digital Images: Compression

chapter |9 pages

Digital Images: Redundancy

chapter |12 pages

Displays: Retinal Scanning

chapter |6 pages

Distortion

chapter |18 pages

Electro-Optical Scanners

chapter |9 pages

Etching

chapter |11 pages

Femtosecond Pulses: High Power

chapter |8 pages

Fluorescence Microscopy

chapter |9 pages

Forward Looking Infrared (FLIR)

chapter |8 pages

Fourier Spectrometer

chapter |6 pages

Fresnel Equations

chapter |10 pages

Galaxies

chapter |11 pages

Gas Lasers

chapter |11 pages

Gyroscopes: Ring Laser

chapter |12 pages

Holography

chapter |13 pages

Honeybee: Visual System Design

chapter |12 pages

Illumination Optics

chapter |8 pages

Image Intensifiers

chapter |14 pages

Image Segmentation

chapter |12 pages

Infrared Imaging Systems

chapter |12 pages

Integral Transforms

chapter |11 pages

Integrated Optical Circuits

chapter |8 pages

Integrated Optical Waveguides

chapter |20 pages

Interference

chapter |13 pages

Interferometers

chapter |8 pages

Iterated Function Systems

chapter |10 pages

Laser Transmitters

chapter |9 pages

Lasers

chapter |9 pages

Lasers: Industrial

chapter |11 pages

Lasers: Medical Applications

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Lasers: Surgical Applications

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Lasers: Tunable

chapter |20 pages

Lenses, Mirrors and Prisms

chapter |10 pages

Lenses: Design

chapter |12 pages

Lenses: Fresnel

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Lenses: Gradient Index (GRIN)

chapter |12 pages

Lidar: Aerosol Sensing

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Lidar: Remote Sensing

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Light Emitting Diodes

chapter |13 pages

Machine Vision

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Machine Vision: Image Processing

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Machine Vision: Lighting

chapter |13 pages

Metrology

chapter |20 pages

Microscopes

chapter |13 pages

Microscopy

chapter |21 pages

Microscopy: X-Ray

chapter |8 pages

Milky Way

chapter |11 pages

Molding Optical Components

chapter |9 pages

Motion Perception

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Noise: Fixed Pattern

chapter |6 pages

Noise: Three-Dimensional

chapter |7 pages

Optical Amplifiers

chapter |18 pages

Optical Coherence Tomography

chapter |8 pages

Optical Computing

chapter |8 pages

Optical Correlators

chapter |16 pages

Optical Correlators: Applications

chapter |10 pages

Optical Design and Fabrication

chapter |11 pages

Optical Fiber: Structured

chapter |14 pages

Optical Fibers: Characteristics

chapter |7 pages

Optical Fibers: Sources

chapter |11 pages

Optical Modulators

chapter |7 pages

Optical System Optimization

chapter |14 pages

Optical Transfer Functions

chapter |15 pages

Optical Tweezers

chapter |5 pages

Opto-Electronics

chapter |12 pages

Paraxial Optics

chapter |19 pages

Pattern Recognition

chapter |16 pages

Photometry

chapter |64 pages

Photon Detectors

chapter |11 pages

Photonic Crystals

chapter |17 pages

Photonic Integrated Circuits

chapter |18 pages

Piezoelectric Effect

chapter |13 pages

Plasmonics

chapter |28 pages

Point-Spread Functions

chapter |9 pages

Polarization Measurements

chapter |12 pages

Pulse Image Processing

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Pupils and Stops

chapter |20 pages

Quantum Efficiency

chapter |9 pages

Quantum Optics

chapter |20 pages

Radiometry

chapter |19 pages

Random Processes

chapter |8 pages

Ray Tracing: Paraxial

chapter |9 pages

Ray Tracing: Real

chapter |17 pages

Remote Sensing

chapter |8 pages

Reticles

chapter |9 pages

Reticles: Missile Seekers

chapter |8 pages

Scattering

chapter |12 pages

Scintillation

chapter |21 pages

Solar System

chapter |13 pages

Special Functions

chapter |14 pages

Speckle

chapter |8 pages

Spectroscopy

chapter |8 pages

Spectroscopy: Doppler-Free

chapter |10 pages

Spectroscopy: Intracavity Laser

chapter |11 pages

Spectroscopy: Microwave

chapter |7 pages

Spectroscopy: Saturation

chapter |16 pages

Spectroscopy: Tissue

chapter |17 pages

Stellar Characteristics

chapter |11 pages

Sun

chapter |3 pages

Super Resolution

chapter |12 pages

Surface Roughness

chapter |14 pages

Synthetic Aperture Radar

chapter |9 pages

Target Signature: Methods

chapter |45 pages

Thermal Detectors

chapter |28 pages

Thin Film Deposition

chapter |7 pages

Tissue–Laser Interactions

chapter |13 pages

Tunable Terahertz-Wave Generation

chapter |8 pages

Velocimetry

chapter |7 pages

Visual Conspicuity

chapter |6 pages

Visual Search

chapter |10 pages

Visual Search: Experiments

chapter |6 pages

Wavefront Coding

chapter |20 pages

Wireless Communications

chapter |9 pages

X-Rays: Optical Elements