Fundamentals of Digital Optics: Digital Signal Processing in Optics and Holography

1.1 Digital Optics as a Subject Improvement of the quality of optical devices has always been the central task of experimental optics. In modern terms, improvements in sensitivity and resolution have equated higher quality with greater informational throughput. For most of today's applications, optics and electronics have, in essence, solved the problem of generating high quality pictures with great informational ca­ pacity. Effective use of the enormous amount of information contained in t...