Meeting the needs of experienced professionals and newcomers to the field, this volume presents major optical measurement procedures-including new work from the authors' laboratory-and offers critical background on optical components and systems, giving access to essential information on modern optics gathered from a range of literature sources. This resource fully describes the capabilities and applications of semiconductor laser diodes used in fiber optics communications and sensors ... refracting, diffracting, reflecting, thin-film, and polarization elements . . . optical metrology . . . Fourier transform processing, image subtraction, and other operations ... coherent and incoher­ent fiber optic sensors . . . and more. This self-study aid also supplies explanatory illustrations, display equations, simplified discussions, and briefly reviews optical surface sensing, surface evaluation, ellipsometry, and laser anemometry. This guide works as a vital reference for optical, laser, photo-optical, electrical, mechani­cal, and industrial engineers; optical physicists; photonic scientists; metrologists; and holographers; and serves as a useful text for graduate students in applied optics training programs or courses.

Rajpal S. Sirohi, Mahendra P. Kothiyal both Department of Physics, Indian Institute ofTechnology, Madras, India

About the Series, Preface, 1. Light Sources, Detectors, and Recording Media, 2. Optical Components, 3. Basic Optical Systems, 4. Length Measurement Techniques, 5. Alignment and Angle Measurement Techniques, 6. Heterodyne and Phase Shifting Interferometry, 7. Hologram Interferometry and Speckle Metrology, 8. Optical Data Processing, 9. Photoelasticity, 10. Fiber-Optic Sensors, 11. Miscellaneous Techniques, Index