The digital age had driven the need to combine radio-frequency engineering experience with overall high-speed digital design, as well as the need for an overall understanding of system performance. In some advanced designs, both analog and digital disciplines have to exist and operate in the same space, and with the correct design, high performance is possible.

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Polarimetric remote sensing offers the potential to provide a new dimension for observations of the earth. This book takes a systems approach to the physical processes involved with formation, collection, and analysis of polarimetric remote sensing data in the visible through longwave infrared. The emphasis is on earth observation at human scales (i.e., ground sample distances of fractions of ....     View More Details

The use of image stabilization has grown to the point that it is now a common component of modern optical systems for imaging, communications, and remote-sensing applications. The benefits of image stabilization to astronomical research alone are so rich that it is common for astronomical telescopes, built over the last century, to be retrofitted with fast steering mirrors and tip-tilt....     View More Details

Introduction to the Optical Transfer Function provides a well-illustrated treatment of the fundamental concepts of spatial frequency, spread function, wave aberration, and transfer function-and how these concepts are related in an optical system, how they are measured and calculated, and how they may be useful.

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This book deals with a wide class of novel and efficient adaptive signal processing techniques developed to restore signals from noisy and degraded observations. These signals include those acquired from still or video cameras, electron microscopes, radar, X-rays, or ultrasound devices, and are used for various purposes, including entertainment, medical, business, industrial, military, civil, ....     View More Details

This book introduces the exciting and fast-moving field of MOEMS to graduate students, scientists, and engineers by providing a foundation of both micro-optics and MEMS that will enable them to conduct future research in the field. Born from the relatively new fields of MEMS and micro-optics, MOEMS are proving to be an attractive and low-cost solution to a range of device problems requiring hi....     View More Details

The last seven years have seen intensive growth in the research and  development of tissue optics, particularly in the field of tissue diagnostics and imaging. To reflect the advances in these areas, the tutorial text Tissue Optics: Light Scattering Methods and Instruments for Medical Diagnosis has been extensively revised and expanded to create this detailed treatise of the field. Includ....     View More Details

Many applications today require the Fourier-transform (FT) Spectrometer to perform close to its limitations, such as taking many quantitative measurements  in the visible and in the near-infrared wavelength regions. In such cases, the instrument should not be considered as a perfect ``black box``. Knowing where the limitations of performance arise and which components must be improved is ....     View More Details

The choice of available infrared (IR) detectors for insertion into modern IR systems is both large and confusing. The purpose of this volume is to provide a technical database from which rational IR detector selection criteria evolve, and thus clarify the options open to the modern IR system designer. Emphasis will concentrate mainly on high-performance IR systems operating in a tactical envir....     View More Details

This timely book is a complete and up-to-date reference for the field of infrared fiber optics. Written by an expert in the field with nearly 30 years of experience, it includes a historical recounting of the development of IR fiber optics as well as a summary of the best fibers in each of the three categories of IR fibers: crystalline, glass, and hollow waveguides. The theoretical aspects of ....     View More Details

This text provides insight into the design of optimal image processing operators for implementation directly into digital hardware. Starting with simple restoration examples and using the minimum of statistics, the book provides a design strategy for a wide range of image processing applications. The text is aimed principally at electronics engineers and computer scientists, but will also be o....     View More Details

With concerns about worldwide environmental security, global warming, and climate change due to emissions of CO2 from the burning of fossil fuels, it is desirable to have a wide range of energy technologies in a nation`s portfolio. Photovoltaics, or solar cells, have already proven themselves a viable option as a nonpolluting renewable energy source, as well as viable business that will grow s....     View More Details