Optical Information Processing: A Tribute to Adolf Lohmann (SPIE Press Monograph Vol. PM117)

Adolf Lohmann's significant contributions to the field of optics are recognized by key people whose own works have been based on or influenced by his ground-breaking discoveries and inventions. Chapters describe the history, research, and latest trends in optical information processing.

Contents

- Preface

- Information Optics Concepts Applied to Image Formation in Volume Scattering Media

- A Statistical Introduction to Temporal Coherence Effects in Interferometers

- Wigner Function and Ambiguity Function for Nonparaxial Wavefields

- Gabor's Signal Expansion Based on a Nonorthogonal Sampling Geometry

- Quality Time with the Fractious Fourier Family

- Synthesis of Optical Fields Characterized by Their Mutual Intensity Functions

- The Eye

- Templates for Invention in the Mathematical and Physical Sciences with Applications to Optics

- Transformation of Holographic Wavefields Caused by the Second-order Nonlinearity of a Nonlinear Recording Material

- Spatio-temporal Joint Transform Correlator

- Nonlinear Features for Improved Pattern Recognition

- From Ink Bottles to E-beams: A Historical Perspective of Diffractive Optic Technology

- From Computer-generated Holograms to Optical Signal Processors

- Ultrafast Temporal-spatial Optical Information Processing, Conversion, and Transmission

- Light Tubes, Wigner Diagrams, and Optical Wave Propagation Simulation