Statistical Optics by Joseph W. Goodman - 9781119009450

Statistical OpticsAuthor(s): Joseph W. Goodman\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc, United States\nImprint: John Wiley & Sons Inc\nISBN-13: 9781119009450, 978-1119009450\nSynopsis\nThis 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\n\n This 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:\n\nAnalysis of the Vander Pol oscillator model of laser light\nCoverage on coherence tomography and coherence multiplexing of fiber sensors\nAn expansion of the.