Optical sources, detectors, and systems : fundamentals and applications /: fundamentals and applications. (1995)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Robert H. Kingston.
• Other Names: Kingston, Robert Hildreth, 1928-
• Contents: Blackbody radiation, image plane intensity, and units -- Interaction of radiation with matter : Absorption, Emission, and Lasers -- The semiconductor laser -- The Ideal photon detector and noise limitations on optical signal measurement -- Real detectors : vacuum photodiodes and photomultipliers, photoconductors, junction photodiodes, and avalanche photodiodes -- Heterodyne or coherent detection and optical amplification -- Systems 1, radiometry, communications, and radar -- Systems 2, imaging.
• Publisher Details: Place of publication not identified : Academic Press
• Publication Date: 1995
• Extent: 1 online resource (198 pages)
• Subjects: 621.36; Photonics; Optical detectors; Optical communications; Imaging systems; Détecteur optique; Imagerie; Photonique; Communication optique; Imaging systems; Optical communications; Optical detectors; Photonics; xx
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780080538105
• Related ISBNs: 008053810X
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.