Skip to Main Content
Phase Estimation in Optical Interferometry
book

Phase Estimation in Optical Interferometry

by Pramod Rastogi, Erwin Hack
November 2014
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
366 pages
11h 5m
English
CRC Press
Content preview from Phase Estimation in Optical Interferometry
69
Chapter 3
Continuous Wavelet
Transforms
Lionel R. Watkins
Department of Physics
University of Auckland
Auckland, New Zealand
3.1 INTRODUCTION
Wavelets are simple, continuous functions that are scaled, translated, and
possibly rotated in a systematic way such that the entire family of wavelets
thus generated forms a suitable basis for representation of signals. e name
wavelet was coined in the early 1980s by French physicists and mathemati-
cians, who called these functions ondelettes, literally “small waves,” because
they are functions (with zero mean) that have a few oscillations that decay to
zero. ere are many types of “wavelet transform, ...
Become an O’Reilly member and get unlimited access to this title plus top books and audiobooks from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers, thousands of courses curated by job role, 150+ live events each month,
and much more.
Start your free trial

You might also like

Adaptive Optics for Biological Imaging

Adaptive Optics for Biological Imaging

Joel A Kubby

Publisher Resources

ISBN: 9781466598317