Demonstrational Optics Part 2: Coherent and Statistical Optics /

• Κύριοι συγγραφείς: Marchenko, Oleg (Συγγραφέας), Kazantsev, Sergei (Συγγραφέας), Windholz, Laurentius (Συγγραφέας)
• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Boston, MA : Springer US, 2007.
• Θέματα: Physics.; Optics.; Electrodynamics.; Lasers.; Photonics.; Optoelectronics.; Plasmons (Physics).; Statistics.; Optics and Electrodynamics.; Optics, Optoelectronics, Plasmonics and Optical Devices.; Laser Technology, Photonics.; History and Philosophical Foundations of Physics.; Statistics, general.

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...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• 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.