Photonic Instrumentation: Sensing and Measuring with Lasers (Hardcover)
Photonic Instrumentation is designed as the sourcebook for university-level
courses covering the essentials of laser-based instrumentation, and is also a
useful reference for working engineers. Photonic instruments have very
desirable features like non-contact operation and unparalleled sensitivity.
They have soon become a big industrial success, passing unaffected through
the bubble years and, not less important, well-established methods in
measurement science.
This book offers coverage of the most proven instruments, with a balanced
treatment of the optical and electronic aspects involved. It also attempts to
present the basic principles, develop the guidelines of design and evaluate
the ultimate limits of performances set by noise.
The instruments surveyed include: Alignment instruments -Wire diameter
and Particle Size Analyzers - Telemeters - Laser Interferometers -Self-
Mixing Interferometers - Speckle Pattern Instruments- Laser Doppler
Velocimeters- Gyroscopes - Optical Fiber Sensors -Quantum Sensing
A few appendices offer convenient reference material for key principles on
lasers, optical interferometers, propagation and scattering, and diffraction.