Demonstrational Optics Part 2, Coherent and Statistical Optics
Demonstrational Optics presents a new didactical approach to the study of optics. Emphasizing the importance of elaborate new experimental demonstrations, pictorial illustrations, computer simulations and models of optical phenomena in order to ensure a deeper understanding of wave and geometric opt...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York, NY
Springer US
2007, 2007
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2007 |
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Table of Contents:
- Interference of light: Classical interference schemes
- Interference with glass plates
- Multiple-beam interference
- The Fabry-Perot interferometer
- Optical resonator of a laser
- Scanning Fabry-Perot interferometer
- Diffraction of light: Fresnel diffraction
- Fraunhofer diffraction
- Fraunhofer diffraction in optical instruments
- Resolving power of optical instruments
- Fourier optics: Properties of Fourier spectra in optics
- Isoplanatic linear systems
- Spatial filtration
- History of quanta: Black body radiation
- Plank’s law of radiation
- Formulae for equilibrium radiation
- Einstein's hypothesis of light quanta
- Spontaneous and induced radiation
- Shot noise
- Instantaneous intensity
- Quantum efficiency
- The random experiment
- Statistics of the number of photoelectrons
- Detection of low intensities
- Poisson’s statistics with the concept of photons
- Interference of single photons
- White gaussian light: Fluctuations
- The quadrature components
- Computer model for the Gaussian light
- Correlation of light field: Visibility and complex degree of coherence
- General form of correlation of fields
- Spatial correlation of the field
- Temporal correlation of the light field
- The spatial mode
- Computer simulation of field correlation
- Correlation of light intensity
- Correlation functions of intensity
- Photo-current statistics
- The statistics of thermal radiation
- Optical beats experiment
- Hanbury-Brown and Twiss experiments
- Correlation of pseudo-Gaussian light
- References
- Index