scispace - formally typeset
Open AccessJournal Article

Statistical optics

TLDR
Development of this more comprehensive model of the behavior of light draws upon the use of tools traditionally available to the electrical engineer, such as linear system theory and the theory of stochastic processes.
Abstract
Course Description This is an advanced course in which we explore the field of Statistical Optics. Topics covered include such subjects as the statistical properties of natural (thermal) and laser light, spatial and temporal coherence, effects of partial coherence on optical imaging instruments, effects on imaging due to randomly inhomogeneous media, and a statistical treatment of the detection of light. Development of this more comprehensive model of the behavior of light draws upon the use of tools traditionally available to the electrical engineer, such as linear system theory and the theory of stochastic processes.

read more

Citations
More filters
Journal ArticleDOI

Survey on Free Space Optical Communication: A Communication Theory Perspective

TL;DR: An up-to-date survey on FSO communication systems is presented, describing FSO channel models and transmitter/receiver structures and details on information theoretical limits of FSO channels and algorithmic-level system design research activities to approach these limits are provided.
Journal ArticleDOI

Focusing coherent light through opaque strongly scattering media

TL;DR: Focusing of coherent light through opaque scattering materials by control of the incident wavefront with a brightness up to a factor of 1000 higher than the brightness of the normal diffuse transmission is reported.
Journal ArticleDOI

A Global Assessment of the SRTM Performance

TL;DR: The NASA/NGA Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM) collected interferometric radar data which has been used by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory to generate a near-global topography data product for latitudes smaller than 60° as mentioned in this paper.
Journal ArticleDOI

In vivo confocal scanning laser microscopy of human skin II: advances in instrumentation and comparison with histology.

TL;DR: A small, portable, and robust confocal microscope that is capable of imaging normal and abnormal skin morphology and dynamic processes in vivo, in both laboratory and clinical settings is built.
References
More filters
Dissertation

Effet de la turbulence optique sur l'astrométrie solaire par imagerie

R. Ikhlef
TL;DR: In this article, the mesure du rayon solaire par imagerie pleine, and MISOLFA un moniteur de turbulence, permet d'estimer les parametres spatio-temporels de celle-ci.
Dissertation

Commutation de paquets dans les réseaux optiques transparents à partir de fonctions logiques tout optiques

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a set of architectures optiques for realising fonctions logiques a 10 Gbit/s avec l'amplificateur optique a semiconducteur.
Proceedings ArticleDOI

Two deformable mirror concept for correcting scintillation effects in laser beam projection

TL;DR: Simulations of propagation through a single turbulent layer sufficiently distant from the beacon observation and laser beam transmission aperture to cause scintillation shows that, for an ideal deformable mirror system, this field conjugate approach improves the on-axis field amplitude by a factor of approximately 1.4 to 1.5 compared to a conventional phase-only correction system.
Journal ArticleDOI

Gain statistics of a fiber optical parametric amplifier with a temporally incoherent pump

TL;DR: These statistics of the gain fluctuations of a fiber optical parametric amplifier pumped with a temporally incoherent pump are shown to be a strong function of signal detuning.
Proceedings ArticleDOI

Experimental demonstration and simulation results of frequency encoded optical CDMA

TL;DR: An experimental demonstration and simulation results of frequency encoded code division multiple access (FE-CDMA) using a broadband source, fiber Bragg gratings for encoding/decoding of unipolar m-sequence codes and balanced detection are presented and a prediction of potential system capacity is made.