August 2013
Intermediate to advanced
360 pages
7h 23m
English
10 Opto-electronics and the optical block
As the compact disc player uses a laser beam to read the disc, we will sketch some basic principles of opto-electronics – the technological marriage of the fields of optics and electronics. The principles are remarkably diverse, involving such topics as the nature of optical radiation, the interaction of light with matter, radiometry, photometry, and the characteristics of various sources and sensors.
The optical spectrum
By convention, electromagnetic radiation is specified according to its wavelength (λ). The frequency of a specific electromagnetic wavelength is given by:
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where f is frequency in Hz, ...
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