Applied Photometry, Radiometry, and Measurements of Optical Losses

• Main Author: Bukshtab, Michael (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2012.
• Series: Springer Series in Optical Sciences, 163
• Subjects: Physics.; Optics.; Electrodynamics.; Physical measurements.; Measurement.; Optoelectronics.; Plasmons (Physics).; Microwaves.; Optical engineering.; Optics, Optoelectronics, Plasmonics and Optical Devices.; Optics and Electrodynamics.; Microwaves, RF and Optical Engineering.; Measurement Science and Instrumentation.

Applied Photometry, Radiometry, and Measurements of Optical Losses reviews and analyzes physical concepts of radiation transfer, providing quantitative foundation for the means of measurements of optical losses, which affect propagation and distribution of light waves in various media and in diverse...

Table of Contents:

• Acknowledgements
• Abstract
• Preface
• PART I APPLIED PHOTOMETRY AND RADIOMETRY
• I.1. Background
• Chapter 1 Radiometric and photometric quantities and notions
• Chapter 2 Methods of photometric and radiometric measurements
• Chapter 3 Radiometry of partially coherent radiation
• Chapter 4 Photometers and radiometers
• PART II MEASUREMENTS OF OPTICAL LOSSES
• II.1. Features of low-loss assessments
• Chapter 5 Conventional measurement techniques
• Chapter 6 Systems of multiple reflections
• Chapter 7 Laser spectroscopy
• Chapter 8 Measurements in passive resonators
• Chapter 9 Determination of absorption losses
• Chapter 10 Direct attenuation measurements
• Chapter 11 Propagation losses in fibers and waveguides
• References.