
Optical Sources, Detectors, and Systems
Fundamentals and Applications
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Key Features
- Provides a unified treatment of optical sources, detectors, and applications
- Explains D *, NEP, f number, RA product, BER, shot noise, and more
- Contains numerous illustrative examples and exercises with solutions
- Extensively illustrated with more than 90 drawings and graphs
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Table of Contents
Blackbody Radiation, Image Plane Intensity, and Units
Interaction of Radiation with Matter
Absorption, Emission, and Lasers
The Semiconductor Laser
The Ideal Photon Detector and Noise Limitations on Optical Signal Measurement
Real Detectors
Vacuum Photodiode and Photomultiplier, Photoconductor, Junction Photodiode, Avalanche Photodiode
Heterodyne or Coherent Detection and Optical Amplification
Systems I: Radiometry, Communications, and Radar
SystemsII: Imaging. References
Appendix: Problem Solutions
Product details
- No. of pages: 198
- Language: English
- Copyright: © Academic Press 1995
- Published: June 20, 1995
- Imprint: Academic Press
- eBook ISBN: 9780080538105
About the Author
Robert Kingston
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