Progress in Optics (eBook)

Front Cover 1
Progress in Optics, Volume VI 4
Copyright Page 5
Contents 10
Preface 8
CHAPTER I. RECENT ADVANCES IN HOLOGRAPHY 16
1. Introduction 18
2. Transfer Characteristics of the Emulsion 31
3. Holographic Magnification and Aberrations 35
4. Bandwidth Requirements 41
5. Holographic Recording in Three-Dimensional Media 46
6. Holographic Interferometry 50
7. Coherence Measurement and Contouring 58
8. Imagery Through Irregular Media 59
9. Incoherent Radiation Holograms 61
10. Possible Application and Conclusion 63
Acknowledgments 65
References 65
CHAPTER II. SCATTERING OF LIGHT BY ROUGH SURFACES 68
1. Introduction 70
2. Kirchhoff Solution 73
3. Periodic Surfaces 75
4. Random Rough Surfaces 76
5. Depolarisation 79
6. Composite Rough Surfaces 81
7. Shadowing 82
8. Conclusion 83
References 84
CHAPTER III. MEASUREMENT OF THE SECOND ORDER DEGREE OF COHERENCE 86
1. Intronuction 88
2. Methods For Measuring the Degree of Coherence of Quasi-Monochromatic Light 90
3. Description of the Main Polarization Interferometers Used for Measuring the Degree of Coherence 94
4. Application of Harmonic Analysis to the Measurement of Degree of Coherence 99
5. Measurement of The Degree of Coherence of Light from a Source with a Centre of Symmetry. Polychromatic Light 112
References 119
CHAPTER IV. DESIGN OF ZOOM LENSES 120
1. Introduction 122
2. First Order Design of Zoom Lenses 123
3. General Procedures of Zoom Lens Design 140
4. Third Order Design of Zoom Lenses 155
5. Chromatic First Order Design of Zoom Lenses 177
6 . Conclusion 184
References 184
CHAPTER V. SOME APPLICATIONS OF LASERS TO INTERFEROMETRY 186
1. Introduction 188
2. Characteristics of Light Sources for Interferometry 189
3. Application of Lasers to Interferometry 192
4. Conclusions 224
References 224
CHAPTER VI. EXPERIMENTAL STUDIES OF INTENSITY FLUCTUATIONS IN LASERS 226
1. Introduction 228
2. Elementary Theory of Noise in Laser Oscillators 230
3. Measuremest of Intenslty Fluctuations in Lasers 240
4. Photoelectron Counting Distributions 255
5. Concluding Remarks 270
Acknowledgment 270
References 271
CHAPTER VII. FOURIER SPECTROSCOPY 274
1. Introduction 276
2. General Principle of Fourier Spectroscopy 278
3. Recovervy of Spectral Distribution in Fourier Spectroscopy 288
4. Aperture Effect in the Michelson Interferometer 295
5. Mathematical Filtering 298
6. Hilbert Transform 310
7. Signal-to-Noise Ratio 313
8. Instrumentation 322
9. Methods of Performing the Fourier Transformation 335
10. Experimental Results 339
11. Conclusion 341
Acknowledgments 342
References 342
CHAPTER VIII. DIFFRACTION AT A BLACK SCREEN 346
PART II: ELECTROMAGNETIC THEORY 346
1. Reformulation of the Scalar Theory 350
2. Elect Romagnetic Diffraction 369
Appexdix A 385
Appexdix B 387
References 391
Author Index 394
Subject Index 399