Optical Image Formation and Processing

✍ Scribed by M. Francon (Auth.)

• Publisher: Academic Press
• Year: 1979
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 215
• Category: Library

✦ Table of Contents

Content:
Front Matter, Page iii
Copyright, Page iv
Preface, Pages xi-xiii
Notation, Pages xv-xviii
CHAPTER 1 - Luminous Vibrations, Pages 1-8
CHAPTER 2 - Interference, Pages 9-24
CHAPTER 3 - Diffraction, Pages 25-45
CHAPTER 4 - Diffraction Gratings, Pages 47-58
CHAPTER 5 - Partial Coherence, Pages 59-70
CHAPTER 6 - Interference Phenomena in Polarized Light, Pages 71-83
CHAPTER 7 - Formation of Images. Filtering of Spatial Frequencies by an Optical Instrument, Pages 85-95
CHAPTER 8 - Holography, Pages 97-117
CHAPTER 9 - Interferometry, Pages 119-144
CHAPTER 10 - Elements of the Optical Processing of Information, Pages 145-164
CHAPTER 11 - The Optics of Lasers, Pages 165-181
APPENDIX A - Review of Some Elementary Concepts Regarding the Fourier Transformation, Pages 183-199
APPENDIX B - The Fresnel–Kirchhoff Formula and the Phenomena of Diffraction, Pages 201-206
Brief Bibliography, Page 207
Index, Pages 209-213