1st Edition
by Roshan L. Aggarwal (Author), Kambiz Alavi (Author)
"This book provides a practical
description of optics that satisfies the needs often encountered by some
engineers in the practice of their profession. Optical components,
including optical sources and detectors, have found their way into
products that we buy for the house, and into industrial equipment. As a
textbook, it provides an efficient tool for the student to gain in-depth
knowledge of a subject, with homework problems to test and verify
mastery of the subject."
―Antonio Sanchez-Rubio, MIT Lincoln Laboratory, Lexington, Massachusetts, USA
"This
book covers all the experimental tools, described meticulously and with
clear illustrations, which students will need to perform their
experiments. I wish I had this book when I taught an optics course!"
―A.K. Ramdas, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, USA
This
book provides readers with a brief introduction to optical components.
Materials presented in this book prepare readers to deal with optical
components in the areas of optics and optical technology. Introduction to Optical Components
features nine chapters with topics ranging from lenses (materials,
magnifiers, and cameras); mirrors (spherical, ellipsoidal, and
aberrations); diffraction gratings (holographic and multilayer
dielectric); polarizers (birefringent, reflective, and Jones matrix
algebra); windows (UV and AR coating materials); filters (neutral
density and Raman); beamsplitters (plate, cube, and pellicle); sources
(light-emitting diodes and lasers); and detectors (thermal, photon, and
photodetector noise). This text also features a detailed discussion of
non-ideal effects for practical components using minimal amounts of
derivations (that do not compromise essential physical, mathematical, or
material properties). While there are numerous books that feature
"optical" in their title, to date, no textbook on optical components
exists. It is for this reason that Introduction to Optical Components
is such a vital resource. The technical level of this book is
equivalent to an undergraduate course in the optics and optical
technology curriculum. Students are required to have little familiarity
with optics. Practitioners in optics and optical technology will also
find this book useful. Each chapter includes numerous mathematical
equations; tables providing useful optical parameters for many optical
materials; and end-of-chapter questions and their corresponding
solutions.
