Optical Signal Processing

Index

Abbe, as spatial frequency designator, 53

Abbe’s resolution criterion, 106–110, 112, 114

Aberrations, 57–59

astigmatism, 63–64

coma, 62–63

curvature of field, 64

distortion, 65

monochromatic wavefront polynomial, 58–59

order of, 59

point spread function, 57

reduction, 65–67

spherical, 59–61

third-order, 59

Accumulators, 561

Acoustic waves:

in acousto-optic cells, 289–290, 303–304

attenuation, 298–299

attenuation by interaction materials, 309

Acousto-optic cells, 156, 288–290

acoustic wave attenuation, 298–299

acoustic wavelengths, 294–296

acousto-optic interaction visualization, 305–307

in adaptive filtering, 562–563

as beam scanners (deflectors), see Scanners

Bragg diffraction mode, 290, 292–294, 305–307

configurations, 304

crossed geometry, 540–543

in decimated-array spectrum analyzers, 437–440, 444

diffraction angles, 294–296

diffraction orders, see Diffraction orders

downshifted signals, 294, 303–305

dual-channel, 433, 437, 446

in electronic reference correlators, 526–528

in heterodyne detection, 372, 384, 387, 391, 395

in heterodyne spectrum analyzers, 398–399, 403–404, 407, 414–416, 434

and heterodyne transform, 461

input/output relationships, 299–301

interaction materials, 289, 299, 308–309

modulation index, 291, 299

multichannel, 307, 566–567

phase modulation in, 301–302

Q-factor, 292

Raman-Nath diffraction mode, 288, 290–292, 293, 294, 305

in Range/Doppler radar processing, 557–558, 560

in real-time spectrum analyzers, 430, 546

source depletion, 358–359

in space-integrating ...