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Lasers and Holography
An Introduction to Coherent Optics
- 1st Edition - May 12, 2014
- Author: Winston KOCK
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 1 - 4 8 3 2 - 4 9 2 3 - 0
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 1 - 4 8 3 2 - 7 9 9 8 - 5
Science Study Series No. 39: Lasers and Holography: An Introduction to Coherent Optics focuses on the processes, methodologies, and techniques involved in optics, including wave… Read more
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Request a sales quoteScience Study Series No. 39: Lasers and Holography: An Introduction to Coherent Optics focuses on the processes, methodologies, and techniques involved in optics, including wave diffraction and patterns, zone plates, holograms, and diffraction. The publication first ponders on holograms as wave patterns, coherence, and lasers. Topics include reflectors and resonators, natural line width, semiconductor lasers, reflectors and spatial coherence, energy conservation with reflectors, frequency coherence and stability, coherent waves from small sources, photographic grating, and properties of waves. The book then tackles wave diffraction, as well as diffraction by two and multiple slits, near field, multiple slit gratings and photographic gratings, refraction by prisms, dependence of diffraction on wavelength, and disks and zone plates. The manuscript reviews the properties of holograms and zone plates. Discussions focus on holograms and coherent radar, single wavelength nature of holograms, image inversion, reconstruction with a small portion of a hologram, pseudoscopy in the real image of a hologram, zone plates as negative lenses, offset zone plates, and zone plates with areas interchanged. The text is a dependable reference for researchers interested in coherent optics.
PrefaceChapter 1. Holograms as Wave Patterns Properties of Waves Wave Uniformity Interference Making A Hologram A Photographic Grating A Photographic Zone Plate The Complete Hologram Process The Hologram of a SceneChapter 2. Coherence Frequency Coherence Frequency Stability Spatial Coherence Coherent Waves from Small Sources A Microwave Hologram A Real Acoustic Image The Extremely Short Wavelengths of LightChapter 3. Lasers The First Laser A Water Wave Analogy The Two-Step Process Energy Conservation with Reflectors Reflectors and Spatial Coherence Energy Concentration Q-Spoiling Gas Lasers Reflectors and Resonators The Natural Line Width Coherence Length Semiconductor LasersChapter 4. Wave Diffraction Diffraction by a Slit The Near Field Diffraction by Two Slits Diffraction by Multiple Slits Multiple Slit Gratings and Photographic Gratings Refraction by Prisms A Prism Grating A Double-Prism Grating Volume Effects Dependence of Diffraction on Wavelength Diffraction by a Knife Edge Diffraction by a Disk Disks and Zone PlatesChapter 5. Zone Plates The Classical Zone Plate Zone Plates as Negative Lenses Zone Plates with Areas Interchanged Offset Zone Plates Offset Holograms Zone Plates as Lenses Volume Zone Plates Standing Wave Patterns Lattice Reflectors Reflection Zone PlatesChapter 6. Properties of Holograms Three-Dimensional Realism Holograms and Photographs Parallax and Lens Action A Stereo Hologram Focused-Image Holography Reconstruction with a Small Portion of a Hologram Pseudoscopy in the Real Image of a Hologram Image Inversion Single Wavelength Nature of Holograms Requirements of Film Properties Information Content Holograms and Coherent Radar Acoustic HologramsEpilogueSuggested ReadingIndex
- No. of pages: 112
- Language: English
- Edition: 1
- Published: May 12, 2014
- Imprint: Butterworth-Heinemann
- Paperback ISBN: 9781483249230
- eBook ISBN: 9781483279985
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