Fundamentals of Digital Optics: Digital Signal Processing in Optics and Holography / Edition 1

by Leonid Yaroslavsky, Murray Eden

Overview

1.1 Digital Optics as a Subject Improvement of the quality of optical devices has always been the central task of experimental optics. In modern terms, improvements in sensitivity and resolution have equated higher quality with greater informational throughput. For most of today's applications, optics and electronics have, in essence, solved the problem of generating high quality pictures with great informational ca­ pacity. Effective use of the enormous amount of information contained in the images necessitates processing pictures, holograms, and interferograms. The manner in which information might be extracted from optical entities has be­ come a topic of current interest. The informational aspects of optical signals and systems might serve as a basis for attacking this question by making use of information theory and signal communication theory, and by enlisting modern tools and methods for data processing (the most important and powerful of which are those of digi­ tal computation). Exploiting modern advances in electronics has allowed new wavelength ranges and new kinds of radiation to be used in optics. Comput­ ers have extended our knowledge of the informational essence of radiation. Thus, computerized optical devices enhance not only the optical capabilities of sight, but also its analytical capabilities as well, thus opening qualitatively new horizons to all the areas in which optical devices have found application.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780817638221
Publisher:	Birkhäuser Boston
Publication date:	12/01/1996
Edition description:	1995
Pages:	362
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.24(d)

Table of Contents

1 Introduction.- 2: Elements of Signal Theory.- 3: Digital Representation of Optical Signals.- 4: Digital Representation of Signal Transformations.- 5: Efficient Computational Procedures for Digital Filtering..- 6: Discrete Orthogonal Transforms and Fast Algorithms in a Matrix Representation.- 7: Digital Statistical Simulation and Measurements.- 8: Linear and Rank Adaptive Filters for Picture Processing..- 9: Adaptive Linear Filters for Objects Localization in Pictures.- 10: Synthesis of Holograms.

Editorial Reviews

Presents the fundamentals of digital optics--a scientific branch that unifies the theory, methodology, and technical means for processing optical signals using digital picture processing, digital holography and interferometry, and digital simulation of optical and holographic systems. The first part considers the problems in the digital representation of optical signals and their transformation, as well as problems presenting efficient computational algorithms for the transformations. Part two is devoted to applications of digital processing to optical signals. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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