The Power- and Energy-handling Capability of Optical Materials, Components, and Systems
The Power- and Energy-handling Capability of Optical Materials, Components, and Systems

Author: Roger M. Wood

Publisher: SPIE Press

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 138

ISBN-13: 9780819447432

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Annotation There is a maximum power and energy that you can put into or transmit through your optical system; in many cases, this maximum is well below the laser-induced damage threshold. This tutorial explains the factors and constraints that limit the power- and energy-handling capability of optical materials, components, and/or systems. Because the lasers coming off the production lines are much more stable, efficient, and controlled than in the past, today's engineers often do not have the insight into the technology as was required of first-generation laser engineers. However, important insights into the use and performance of the laser and optical systems can be lost unless we remind ourselves at periodic intervals of the problems our predecessors had to face.

Laser-Induced Damage of Optical Materials
Laser-Induced Damage of Optical Materials

Author: Roger M. Wood

Publisher: CRC Press

Published: 2003-08-01

Total Pages: 252

ISBN-13: 1420034057

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The laser power handling capacities of optical systems are determined by the physical properties of their component materials. At low intensity levels these factors are not important, but an understanding of damage mechanisms is fundamental to good design of laser products operating at high power. Laser Induced Damage of Optical Materials presents

Field Mathematics for Electromagnetics, Photonics, and Materials Science
Field Mathematics for Electromagnetics, Photonics, and Materials Science

Author: Bernard Maxum

Publisher: SPIE Press

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 278

ISBN-13: 9780819455239

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The primary objective of this book is to offer a review of vector calculus needed for the physical sciences and engineering. This review includes necessary excursions into tensor analysis intended as the reader's first exposure to tensors, making aspects of tensors understandable at the undergraduate level.

Logic-based Nonlinear Image Processing
Logic-based Nonlinear Image Processing

Author: Stephen Marshall

Publisher: SPIE Press

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 168

ISBN-13: 9780819463432

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This text provides insight into the design of optimal image processing operators for implementation directly into digital hardware. Starting with simple restoration examples and using the minimum of statistics, the book provides a design strategy for a wide range of image processing applications. The text is aimed principally at electronics engineers and computer scientists, but will also be of interest to anyone working with digital images.

Matrix Methods for Optical Layout
Matrix Methods for Optical Layout

Author: Gerhard Kloos

Publisher: SPIE Press

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 144

ISBN-13: 9780819467805

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This book is intended to familiarize the reader with the method of Gaussian matrices and some related tools of optical design. The matrix method provides a means to study an optical system in the paraxial approximation. This text contains new results such as theorems on the design of variable optics, on integrating rods, on the optical layout of prism devices, etc. The results are derived in a step-by-step way so that the reader might apply the methods presented here to resolve design problems with ease.

Infrared Optics and Zoom Lenses
Infrared Optics and Zoom Lenses

Author: Allen Mann

Publisher: SPIE Press

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 184

ISBN-13: 0819476676

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Ten years after the publication of Infrared Optics and Zoom Lenses, this text is still the only current publication devoted exclusively to infrared zoom lenses. This updated second edition includes 18 new refractive and reflective infrared zoom systems, bringing the total number of infrared zoom optical systems to 41 systems. Other additions include a section on focal plane arrays and a new closing chapter specifically devoted to applications of infrared zoom lenses. Coverage of wavelength region has been expanded to include the near infrared. Additional topics include an examination of the importance of principal planes, methods for athermalization by means of computer glass substitution, and global optimization techniques for zoom lens design.

Fundamentals of Infrared Detector Materials
Fundamentals of Infrared Detector Materials

Author: Michael A. Kinch

Publisher: SPIE Press

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 190

ISBN-13: 9780819467317

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The choice of available infrared (IR) detectors for insertion into modern IR systems is both large and confusing. The purpose of this volume is to provide a technical database from which rational IR detector selection criteria evolve, and thus clarify the options open to the modern IR system designer. Emphasis concentrates mainly on high-performance IR systems operating in a tactical environment, although there also is discussion of both strategic environments and low- to medium-performance system requirements.

Radiation Thermometry
Radiation Thermometry

Author: Peter Saunders

Publisher: SPIE Press

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 177

ISBN-13: 0819467839

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Offers an introduction to the subject of radiation thermometry, focusing on sources of measurement error and giving advice on methods for minimizing or eliminating these errors. This title cover such topics as: blackbody radiation, emissivity, reflection errors, and atmospheric absorption and emission; and common radiation thermometers.

Fundamentals of Polarimetric Remote Sensing
Fundamentals of Polarimetric Remote Sensing

Author: John Robert Schott

Publisher: SPIE Press

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 270

ISBN-13:

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This text is for those who need an introduction to polarimetric signals to begin working in the field of polarimetric remote sensing, particularly where the contrast between manmade objects and natural backgrounds are the subjects of interest. The book takes a systems approach to the physical processes involved with formation, collection, and analysis of polarimetric remote sensing data in the visible through longwave infrared. (pBRDF) is then introduced as a way to characterize the reflective and emissive polarimetric behavior of materials. With Dr. Schott's text, you will gain an introduction to polarimetric remote sensing, an appreciation of its issues, and the tools to begin to work in the field.