Progress in Optics
Elsevier (Publisher)
Published on 21. September 2011
457 pages
978-0-08-096236-8 (ISBN)
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Progress in Optics
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- Front Cover
- Progress in Optics, Volume VIII
- Copyright Page
- CONTENTS
- CHAPTER 1. SYNTHETIC-APERTURE OPTICS
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Interferometry
- 3. Feedback-Controlled Optics
- 4. Imaging with Partially Filled Apertures
- 5. Aperture Synthesis with Coherent Illumination
- 6. Object Restoration beyond the Diffraction Limit
- 7. Aperture Synthesis by Use of a Priori Information
- 8. Concluding Remarks
- Acknowledgments
- References
- CHAPTER 2. THE OPTICAL PERFORMANCE OF THE HUMAN EYE
- 1. Introduction, Investigative Approaches
- 2. The Anatomy and Physiology of the Retina
- 3. Basic Concepts: Lines, Points and Borders
- 4. Visual Acuity, Resolving Power and Contrast and Modulation Sensitivity
- 5. Spread and Transfer Functions
- 6. Psychophysical Techniques
- 7. Determination of the Modulation Transfer Function for the Retina
- 8. Perceived Modulation of a Sine-Wave Grating at Suprathreshold Levels
- 9. Determination of the Modulation Transfer Function of the Optical System of the Eye
- 10. Resolving Power at Unit Modulation
- 11. Dependence of the Resolving Power on Wavelength Composition
- 12. Visibility of Square-Wave Gratings
- 13. The Visibility of a Bar
- 14. The Visibility of Borders
- 15. Retinal Reflectometry
- 16. Aberrations of the Eye
- 17. Motor Adjustments of the Eye
- 18. General Reviews
- Appendix I
- References
- CHAPTER 3. LIGHT BEATING SPECTROSCOPY
- 1. Introduction
- 2. The Theory of Light Beating Spectroscopy
- 3. Light Scattering Theory
- 4. Coherence and Signal to Noise Considerations
- 5. Apparatus and Procedure
- 6. Review of Rayleigh Linewidth Experiments
- 7. Conclusions
- References
- CHAPTER 4. MULTILAYER ANTIREFLECTION COATINGS
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Single Layer Antireflection Coatings
- 3. Two-Layer Antireflection Coatings on Glass
- 4. The Design Method of Effective Interfaces
- 5. Two-Layer Antireflection Coatings on High-Index Substrate
- 6. Three-Layer Antireflection Coatings on High-Index Substrate
- 7. Three- and Four-Layer Antireflection Coatings on Glass
- 8. Synthesized Layers
- 9. The Coating of Reflection Reducing Multilayers
- 10. Environmental Stability of Multilayer Antireflection Coatings
- 11. Optical Performance of Coatings and Increase in Transmission Through an Optical System
- 12. Photographic Applications
- 13. Suppression of Stray Light in an Optical System
- References
- CHAPTER 5. STATISTICAL PROPERTIES OF LASER LIGHT
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Semiclassical Theory
- 3. Solution of the Laser Fokker-Planck Equation
- 4. Photoelectron Counting Distribution
- 5. Fully Quantum Mechanical Theory
- References
- CHAPTER 6. COHERENCE THEORY OF SOURCE-SIZE COMPENSATION IN INTERFERENCE MICROSCOPY
- 1. Introduction
- 2. General Theory of Two-Beam Interference Microscopes
- 3. Coherence Diffraction Theory of Image Formation and Two-Beam Interference
- 4. Localization of Fringes with Partially Coherent Light
- 5. Source-Size Compensation
- 6. Practical Methods of Source-Size Compensation in Shearing Interference Microscope with Polarized Light
- 7. Images of Source-Size Compensated Interference Microscopes
- 8. Conclusion
- References
- CHAPTER 7. VISION IN COMMUNICATION
- 1. Basic Concepts
- 2. Brightness Function
- 3. Spatial Frequency Response
- 4. Noise in the Visual System
- 5. Shape of MTF, Linearity and Stationarity
- Acknowledgments
- Appendix: Methods of Measuring the MTF of the Total Visual System above Threshold
- References
- CHAPTER 8. THEORY OF PHOTOELECTRON COUNTING
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Photoelectron Counting Formula
- 3. Intensity Fluctuations
- 4. Photocounting Distribution
- 5. Dead Time Effects
- 6. Multiple Correlations
- 7. Inversion Problem
- 8. Two Photon Absorption
- Appendix: A Some Properties of Complex Gaussian Distributions
- Appendix: B Solution of an Integral Equation
- References
- Author Index
- Subject Index
