Building Electro-Optical Systems (eBook)

Praise for the First Edition

"Now a new laboratory bible for optics researchers has joined
the list: it is Phil Hobbs's Building Electro-Optical Systems:
Making It All Work."

--Tony Siegman, Optics & Photonics News

Building a modern electro-optical instrument may be the most
interdisciplinary job in all of engineering. Be it a DVD player or
a laboratory one-off, it involves physics, electrical engineering,
optical engineering, and computer science interacting in complex
ways. This book will help all kinds of technical people sort
through the complexity and build electro-optical systems that just
work, with maximum insight and minimum trial and error.

Written in an engaging and conversational style, this Second
Edition has been updated and expanded over the previous edition
to reflect technical advances and a great many conversations with
working designers. Key features of this new edition include:

* Expanded coverage of detectors, lasers, photon budgets, signal
processing scheme planning, and front ends

* Coverage of everything from basic theory and measurement
principles to design debugging and integration of optical and
electronic systems

* Supplementary material is available on an ftp site, including
an additional chapter on thermal Control and Chapter problems
highly relevant to real-world design

* Extensive coverage of high performance optical detection and
laser noise cancellation

Each chapter is full of useful lore from the author's years of
experience building advanced instruments. For more background, an
appendix lists 100 good books in all relevant areas, introductory
as well as advanced. Building Electro-Optical Systems: Making It
All Work, Second Edition is essential reading for researchers,
students, and professionals who have systems to build.