Basics of interferometry /
This book is for those who have some knowledge of optics, but little or no previous experience in interferometry. Accordingly, the carefully designed presentation helps readers easily find and assimilate the interferometric techniques they need for precision measurements. Mathematics is held to a mi...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Boston :
Academic Press,
�1992.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Interference: A Primer
- Light Waves
- Intensity in an Interference Pattern
- Visibility of Interference Fringes
- Interference with a Point Source
- Localization of Fringes
- Two-Beam Interferometers
- Wavefront Division
- Amplitude Division
- The Rayleigh Interferometer
- The Michelson Interferometer
- Fringes Formed with a Point Source
- Fringes Formed with an Extended Source
- Fringes Formed with Collimated Light
- Applications
- The Mach-Zehnder Interferometer
- The Sagnac Interferometer
- Light Sources
- Coherence
- Source-Size Effects
- Slit Source
- Circular Pinhole
- Spectral Effects
- Polarization Effects
- White-Light Fringes
- Channeled Spectra
- Multiple-Beam Interference
- Multiple-Beam Fringes by Transmission
- Multiple-Beam Fringes by Reflection
- Multiple-Beam Fringes of Equal Thickness
- Fringes of Equal Chromatic Order (FECO Fringes)
- The Fabry-Perot Interferometer
- The Laser as a Light Source
- Lasers for Interferometry
- Laser Modes
- Single-Wavelength Operation of Lasers
- Polarization of Laser Beams
- Wavelength Stabilization of Lasers
- Laser Beam Expansion
- Problems with Laser Sources
- Laser Safety
- Detectors
- Photomultipliers
- Photodiodes
- Charge-Coupled Detector Arrays
- Linear CCD Sensors
- Area CCD Sensors
- Frame-Transfer CCD Sensors
- Photoconductive Detectors
- Pyroelectric Detectors
- Measurements of Length
- The Definition of the Metre
- Length Measurements
- The Fractional-Fringe Method
- Fringe Counting
- Heterodyne Techniques
- Synthetic Long-Wavelength Signals
- Laser Frequency Modulation
- Environmental Effects
- Measurement of Changes in Length
- Phase Compensation
- Heterodyne Methods
- Optical Testing
- The Fizeau Interferometer
- The Twyman-Green Interferometer
- Analysis of Wavefront Aberrations
- Laser Unequal-Path Interferometers
- The Point-Diffraction Interferometer
- Shearing Interferometers
- Lateral Shearing Interferometers
- Radial Shearing Interferometers
- Digital Techniques
- Digital Fringe Analysis
- Digital Phase Measurements
- Testing Aspheric Surfaces
- Direct Measurements of Surface Shape
- Long-Wavelength Tests
- Tests with Shearing Interferometers
- Tests with Computer-Generated Holograms
- Macro- and Micro-Interferometry
- Interferometry of Refractive Index Fields
- The Mach-Zehnder Interferometer
- Interference Microscopy
- Multiple-Beam Interference
- Two-Beam Interference Microscopes
- The Nomarski Interferometer
- Holographic and Speckle Interferometry
- Holographic Interferometry
- Holographic Nondestructive Testing
- Holographic Strain Analysis
- Holographic Vibration Analysis
- Speckle Interferometry
- Electronic Speckle-Pattern Interferometry
- Studies of Vibrating Objects
- Interferometric Sensors
- Laser-Doppler Interferometry
- Measurements of Vibration Amplitudes
- Fiber Interferometers
- Rotation Sensing
- Interference Spectroscopy
- Resolving Power and Etendue
- The Fabry-Perot Interferometer
- The Scanning Fabry-Perot Interferometer
- The Confocal Fabry-Perot Interferometer
- The Multiple-Pass Fabry-Perot Interferometer
- Interference Filters
- Birefringent Filters
- Interference Wavelength Meters
- Fourier-Transform Spectroscopy
- The Multiplex Advantage
- Theory of Fourier-Transform Spectroscopy
- Practical Aspects of Fourier-Transform Spectroscopy
- Computation of the Spectrum
- Applications of Fourier-Transform Spectroscopy
- Choosing an Interferometer
- Monochromatic Light Waves
- Complex Representation
- Optical Intensity
- Phase Shifts on Reflection
- Diffraction
- Diffraction Gratings
- Polarized Light
- Production of Polarized Light
- Quarter-Wave and Half-Wave Plates
- The Twyman-Green Interferometer
- Adjustment of the Mach-Zehnder Interferometer
- Fourier Transforms and Correlation
- Fourier Transforms
- Correlation
- Coherence
- Quasi-Monochromatic Light
- The Mutual Coherence Function
- Complex Degree of Coherence
- Visibility of the Interference Fringes
- Spatial Coherence
- Temporal Coherence
- Coherence Length
- Heterodyne Interferometry
- Laser Frequency Shifting
- Evaluation of Shearing Interferograms
- Lateral Shearing Interferometers
- Radial Shearing Interferometers
- Phase-Stepping Interferometry
- Holographic Imaging
- Hologram Recording
- Image Reconstruction
- Laser Speckle
- Laser Frequency Modulation.