This book provides an overview
of lasers, silicon sensors, and practical solutions to beam profiling which has
never been presented in a single text.
Understanding laser beam
characteristics before and after interaction with an object provides intrinsic
insights into the nature of the object. This knowledge is invaluable, say, in
domains such as biophotonics where scattering nature of tissue can be quantified
by understanding the aberrations introduced into a highly focused beam.
The authors cover topics such as
lasers and their characteristics, silicon sensors technologies such as CCDs and
CMOS and provides a step-by-step guide to 3D profiling a laser beam. The book
is supported by openly accessible MATLAB code and videos showing procedures.
Intended as a laboratory handbook to
undergraduate and graduate students using lasers and to serve as a refresher
course for experienced researchers.
Key Features
- Provides
a comprehensive understanding of lasers, filters and silicon detectors, and
their uses in the laboratory which is designed to familiarise graduate-level
students with the working of these optical equipment
- Includes
the key aspect of laser safety prudent to all physics laboratories
- Presents
the basic information, skills, and an inexpensive solution that can be used
with any laser system
- Provides
a comprehensive overview of practical calibration of lasers
- Includes
MATLAB downloads as well as video to help visualize MATLAB figures and to
illustrate the textual description.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
Lasers
Silicon-based Imaging Systems
Experimental Techniques
Potential Sources of Error
Conclusions and Final Remarks
About the Author :
Dr Akhil Kallepalli
is a Research Associate in the Optics Group, School of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Glasgow. Having
completed a PhD in biophotonics (Cranfield University), he now works with novel
imaging systems and techniques such as single-pixel imaging and its applications. His
research interests include image processing, computational imaging, compressive
sensing, microscopy techniques, biophotonics and remote sensing.
His experience includes published research in imaging
systems, biophotonics, hyperspectral imaging and remote sensing. He is an active member of
multiple professional organisations, passionately contributing with research and outreach
activities in different sectors.
Dr David B James
is a Senior Lecturer and Head of the Centre for Electronic Warfare, Information and Cyber. He joined the MoD in 1989 and worked on
non-linear optical systems and devices, gaining a PhD from the Royal Military
College of Science in 2002. In 2008, he joined Cranfield
University, conducting research into novel laser applications.
