{"product_id":"statistical-optics-hardback-9781119009450","title":"Statistical Optics (Hardback) 9781119009450","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eStatistical Optics\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eJoseph W. Goodman (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781119009450, Wiley\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 2 June 2015\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e544 pages\u003cbr\u003e23.4 x 14.5 x 3.8 cm, 0.862 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e“I recommend this updated, comprehensive textbook and reference for its clear writing, detailed mathematical derivations, physical insights, reworked figures, extensive references, problem sets with solutions, mathematical appendices and an index.”  (\u003ci\u003eOptics \u0026amp; Photonics News\u003c\/i\u003e, 31 July 2015)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThis book discusses statistical methods that are useful for treating problems in modern optics, and the application of these methods to solving a variety of such problems\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis book covers a variety of statistical problems in optics, including both theory and applications.  The text covers the necessary background in statistics, statistical properties of light waves of various types, the theory of partial coherence and its applications, imaging with partially coherent light, atmospheric degradations of images, and noise limitations in the detection of light. New topics have been introduced in the second edition, including:\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eAnalysis of the Vander Pol oscillator model of laser light\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eCoverage on coherence tomography and coherence multiplexing of fiber sensors\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eAn expansion of the chapter on imaging with partially coherent light, including several new examples\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eAn expanded section on speckle and its properties\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eNew sections on the cross-spectrum and bispectrum techniques for obtaining images free from atmospheric distortions\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eA new section on imaging through atmospheric turbulence using coherent light\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eThe addition of the effects of “read noise” to the discussions of limitations encountered in detecting very weak optical signals\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eA number of new problems and many new references have been added\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e \u003ci\u003eStatistical Optics, Second Edition\u003c\/i\u003e is written for researchers and engineering students interested in optics, physicists and chemists, as well as graduate level courses in a University Engineering or Physics Department.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e1 Introduction 1\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1.1 Deterministic Versus Statistical Phenomena and Models 2\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1.2 Statistical Phenomena in Optics 3\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1.3 An Outline of the Book 5\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e2 Random Variables 6\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2.1 Definitions of Probability and Random Variables 6\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2.2 Distribution Functions and Density Functions 8\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2.3 Extension to Two or More Joint Random Variables 12\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2.4 Statistical Averages 14\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2.5 Transformations of Random Variables 20\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2.6 Sums of Real Random Variables 27\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2.7 Gaussian Random Variables 32\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2.8 Complex-Valued Random Variables 37\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2.9 Random Phasor Sums 42\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2.10 Poisson Random Variables 52\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e3 Random Processes 56\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3.1 Definition and Description of a Random Process 56\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3.2 Stationarity and Ergodicity 59\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3.3 Spectral Analysis of Random Processes 64\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3.4 Autocorrelation Functions and the Wiener–Khinchin Theorem 69\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3.5 Cross-Correlation Functions and Cross-Spectral Densities 75\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3.6 Gaussian Random Processes 78\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3.7 Poisson Impulse Processes 80\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3.8 Random Processes Derived from Analytic Signals 93\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3.9 The Circular Complex Gaussian Random Process 101\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3.10 The Karhunen–Loève Expansion 102\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e4 Some First-Order Statistical Properties of Light 109\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4.1 Propagation of Light 110\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4.2 Thermal Light 114\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4.3 Partially Polarized Thermal Light 119\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4.4 Single-Mode Laser Light 130\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4.5 Multimode Laser Light 143\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4.6 Pseudothermal Light Produced by Passing Laser Light Through a Changing Diffuser 148\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e5 Temporal and Spatial Coherence of Optical Waves 152\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5.1 Temporal Coherence 153\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5.2 Spatial Coherence 172\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5.3 Separability of Spatial and Temporal Coherence Effects 188\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5.4 Propagation of Mutual Coherence 191\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5.5 Special Forms of the Mutual Coherence Function 196\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5.6 Diffraction of Partially Coherent Light by a Transmitting Structure 202\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5.7 The Van Cittert–Zernike Theorem 208\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5.8 A Generalized Van Cittert–Zernike Theorem 214\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5.9 Ensemble-Average Coherence 218\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e6 Some Problems Involving Higher-Order Coherence 227\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6.1 Statistical Properties of the Integrated Intensity of Thermal or Pseudothermal Light 228\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6.2 Statistical Properties of Mutual Intensity with Finite Measurement Time 243\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6.3 Classical Analysis of the Intensity Interferometer 249\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e7 Effects of Partial Coherence in Imaging Systems 262\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7.1 Preliminaries 263\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7.2 Space-Domain Calculation of Image Intensity 269\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7.3 Frequency Domain Calculation of the Image Intensity Spectrum 274\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7.4 The Incoherent and Coherent Limits 280\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7.5 Some Examples 286\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7.6 Image Formation as an Interferometric Process 293\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7.7 The Speckle Effect in Imaging 308\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e8 Imaging Through Randomly Inhomogeneous Media 323\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8.1 Effects of Thin Random Screens on Image Quality 324\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8.2 Random-Phase Screens 328\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8.3 The Earth’s Atmosphere as a Thick Phase Screen 336\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8.4 Electromagnetic Wave Propagation Through the Inhomogeneous Atmosphere 344\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8.5 The Long-Exposure OTF 352\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8.6 The Short-Exposure OTF 375\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8.7 Stellar Speckle Interferometry 382\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8.8 The Cross-Spectrum or Knox–Thompson Technique 392\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8.9 The Bispectrum Technique 398\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8.10 Adaptive Optics 401\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8.11 Generality of the Theoretical Results 404\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8.12 Imaging Laser-Illuminated Objects through a Turbulent Atmosphere 406\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e9 Fundamental Limits in Photoelectric Detection of Light 415\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9.1 The Semiclassical Model for Photoelectric Detection 416\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9.2 Effects of Random Fluctuations of the Classical Intensity 417\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9.3 The Degeneracy Parameter 429\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9.4 Noise Limitations of the Amplitude Interferometer at Low Light Levels 439\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9.5 Noise Limitations of the Intensity Interferometer at Low Light Levels 449\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9.6 Noise Limitations in Stellar Speckle Interferometry 456\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAppendix A The Fourier Transform 471\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA.1 Fourier Transform Definitions 471\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA.2 Basic Properties of the Fourier Transform 473\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA.3 Tables of Fourier Transforms 476\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAppendix B Random Phasor Sums 478\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAppendix C The Atmospheric Filter Functions 484\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAppendix D Analysis of Stellar Speckle Interferometry 489\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAppendix E Fourth-Order Moment of the Spectrum of a Detected Speckle Image 493\u003c\/p\u003e 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