Gradient-Index Optics
Subtitle: Fundamentals and Applications
By: by Carlos Gomez-Reino, Maria Victoria Perez, Carmen Bao
Contributors: Perez, Maria Victoria; Bao, Carmen
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Berlin, Heidelberg
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 241
ISBN-13: 9783642075681; 9783662047415
Subjects: Engineering; Microwaves
Description: Gradient-Index (GRIN) optics provides a comprehensive and thorough treatment on fundamentals and applications of light propagation through inhomogeneous media. The book can be used both as a classroom text for students in physics and engineering and as a reference for specialists. A description of the phenomena, components and technology used in GRIN Optics are presented. The relationship to lenses, waveguides, optical connections, spatial solitons and vision is demonstrated. Applications of GRIN components and hybrid structures for optical connections, optical sensing and Talbot effect are analyzed.
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Table of contents: title: Light propagation in GRIN media; title: Imaging and transforming transmission through GRIN media; title: GRIN lenses for uniform illumination; title: GRIN lenses for gaussian illumination; title: GRIN media with loss or gain; title: Planar GRIN media with hyperbolic secant refractive index profile; title: The Talbot effect in GRIN media; title: GRIN crystalline lens; title: Optical connections by GRIN lenses.