Optical sensors [electronic resource] : basics and applications / Jörg Haus.

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Bibliographic Details
Published: Weinheim : Wiley-VCH, c2010.
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Main Author:
Haus, Jörg
Subjects:
Optical detectors.
Optoelectronic devices.
Format: Electronic eBook
Optical sensors basics and applications /
Table of Contents:
  • Part One. The Optical Sensor Construction Kit
  • 2. Light Sources
  • 2.1. Important Properties of Light Sources
  • 2.2. Thermal Light Sources
  • 2.3. Line Sources
  • 2.4. Light Emitting Diodes (LEDs)
  • 2.5. Lasers
  • 3. Photodetectors
  • 3.1. Photomultipliers
  • 3.2. Photodiodes
  • 3.3. Other Detector Types
  • 3.4. Imaging Detectors
  • 3.5. Detector Noise
  • 4. Optical Elements
  • 4.1. Optical Materials
  • 4.2. Mirrors, Prisms and Lenses
  • 4.3. Dispersive Elements: Prisms and Gratings
  • 4.4. Optical Filters
  • 4.5. Polarizers
  • 4.6. Optical Fibers
  • 4.7. Modulators
  • Part Two. Optical Sensors and Their Applications
  • 5. Eyes: The Examples of Nature
  • 5.1. The Compound Eyes of Insects
  • 5.2. Nature's Example: The Human Eye
  • 6. Optical Sensor Concepts
  • 6.1. Switches
  • 6.1.1. Light Barriers
  • 6.1.2. Rain Sensor
  • 6.2. Spatial Dimensions
  • 6.2.1. Distance
  • 6.2.2. Displacement
  • 6.2.3. Velocity
  • 6.2.4. Angular Velocity
  • 6.3. Strain
  • 6.4. Temperature
  • 6.5. Species Determination and Concentration
  • 6.5.1. Spectrometry
  • 6.5.2. Polarimetry
  • 6.5.3. Ellipsometry
  • 6.5.4. Refractometry
  • 6.5.5. Particle Density and Particle Number
  • 6.5.6. Fluorescence Detection
  • 6.6. Surface Topography
  • 6.6.1. Chromatic Confocal Sensors
  • 6.6.2. Conoscopic Holography
  • 6.6.3. Multiwavelength Interferometry (MWLI)
  • 6.6.4. White-Light Interferometry
  • 6.6.5. Near-Field Optical Microscopy
  • 6.6.6. Contouring: Structured-Light Techniques
  • 6.6.7. Concepts: Cross-Correlation Analysis and 2D Fourier-Transform Techniques
  • 6.7. Deformation and Vibration Analysis
  • 6.7.1. Laser Vibrometers
  • 6.7.2. Speckle-Pattern Interferometry
  • 6.7.3. Holographic Interferometry
  • 6.8. Wavefront Sensing and Adaptive Optics
  • 6.9. Determination of the Sun Angle
  • 6.10. Determination of Age
  • Part Three. Optics and Sensors at Work: A Laser-Spectroscopic Experiment
  • 7. The Measurement Problem
  • 8. The Physical Principles behind the Experiment
  • 9. Spectroscopic Setups of the Experiment
  • 9.1. The Single-Step Approach
  • 9.2. The Two-Step Approach.

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