Diffraction Gratings and Applications / Edition 1

by Erwin G. Loewen, Evgeny Popov

Overview

"Offers and up-to-date assessment of the entire field of diffraction gratings, including history, physics, manufacture, testing, and instrument design. Furnishes—for the first time in a single-source reference—a thorough review of efficiency behavior, examining echelles as well as concave, binary, transmission, fiber, and waveguide gratings."

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780824799236
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	05/08/1997
Series:	Optical Science and Engineering Series , #58
Pages:	630
Product dimensions:	6.30(w) x 9.12(h) x 1.36(d)

Table of Contents

A brief history of spectral analysis; fundamental properties of gratings; the types of diffraction gratings; efficiency behaviour of plane reflection gratings; transmission gratings; icily gratings; concave gratings; surfacewaves and grating anomalies; waveguide, fibber, an acousto-optic gratings; review of electromagnetic theories of grating efficiencies; testing of grating performance; instrumental systems; grating damage and control; mechanical ruling of gratings; holographic recording of gratings; alternative methods of grating manufacture; replication of gratings.

Editorial Reviews

This is the book that the diffraction grating and diffracting optics community has been waiting for.... ...an essential addition to the library of any laboratory concerned with diffraction gratings and spectroscopy....It is a repository of a great deal of relevant information, some of which does not to my knowledge exist in this form elsewhere and.....performs the role of encyclopaedia.

International Journal of Optoelectronics

An enormous amount of information is conveyed. The authors clearly have an extensive understanding of and experience in designing, constructing, and using surface-relief diffraction gratings.

Laser Focus World

Reviews the history, physics, manufacture, testing, and instrument design of diffraction gratings and reviews efficiency behavior, examining echelles and concave, binary, transmission, fiber, and waveguide ratings. Furnishes efficiency curves for deducing behavior of gratings under various conditions, describes design concepts of monochromators and spectrographs, and explains the role of optical fibers in instrument design and optical communications. Includes b&w photos and diagrams. For spectrometric instrument designers, optical and other engineers, astronomers, physicists, and graduate students. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

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