Title: Unified Optical Scanning Technology
First published: February 15, 2001
Description: Written by an award-winning leader in the field, this is a thoroughly integrated overview of the many facets and disciplines of optical scanning.   Of particular utility to both practitioner and student are such features as:     An overview of the technology and unifying principles, including active and passive scanning, optical transfer, and system architecture  In-depth chapters on scanning theory and processes, scanned resolution, scanner devices and techniques, and the control of scanner beam misplacemen  A comprehensive review of the government-sponsored research of agile beam steering, now primed for commercial adaptation  A unique focus on the Lagrange invariant and its revealing resolution invariant
Subjects: Optical scanners, Optical storage devices, Engineering, Nonfiction, Technology
LC classification: TK7882.S3 .B49 2003