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Written by well-known scientists in the field with vast experience in teaching astrophotonics, this is the first book to bridge astronomy and photonics for the benefit of developing new astronomical instrumentation. The textbook is clearly structured and covers four main methods relevant to observational astronomy: adaptive optics, photometry, interferometry and spectroscopy. It follows a progressive didactical path in photonics, starting from fundamentals of wave- and micro-optics and developing step-by-step the formalisms required for the treatment of optical multilayers, fiber optics and diffraction/holographic gratings. This approach allows students with a physics/engineering background to learn about the problematic of observational astronomy, while, conversely, students of astronomy are exposed to topics in modern photonics. Each chapter is divided into three main sections devoted to the discussion of astronomical concepts required to size an instrument designed for the particular method, the photonic concepts that most suit that instrument, and an analysis of existing, related photonic instruments. A set of exercises and a bibliography complete each chapter. Appendices include a short review of fundamentals of wave optics and photon detectors, plus an overview of project design and management using a real-life example of an astronomical instrumentation project. With its review of the latest instrumentation and techniques, this is invaluable for graduate and post-graduate students in astronomy, physics and optical engineering.

Table of Contents:
Preface INTRODUCTION Astronomical Instrumentation Photonics Astrophotonics Outline PRINCIPLES OF OPTICS Light as Waves The Fresnel Relations Exercises PRINCIPLES OF PHOTONICS Optival Waveguides Lasers Exercises ASTRONOMICAL TECHNIQUES Earth's Atmosphere Absorption, Emission Basic Concepts in Astronomical Photometry Telescopes Instrumentation Exercises DETECTORS FOR ASTRONOMY Introduction Electronic Band Structure in a Material Photomultiplier Tube Photodiode Charge Coupled Devices: CCD CMOS CCD vs. CMOS Avalanche Photodiodes ASTRONOMICAL FILTERS Layer Optics Applications of 1D Layer Theory Fiber Bragg Gratings Resonator Filters Monitor of Emission Lines OH-Lines Suppression ADAPTIVE OPTICS Basic Concepts in Adaptive Optics Photonics in Adaptive Optics Astrophotonics with Adaptive Optics Exercises INTERFEROMETRY Basic Concepts in Astronomical Interferometry Photonic Circuits Photonics for Astronomical Interferometry Exercises SPECTROSCOPY Basic Concepts in Astronomical Spectroscopy Optics of Dispersive Elements Photonic Integrated Multimode Micro Spectrometers Fourier Transform Spectrometers SWIFT and LLIFT Spectrometers Exercises 3D SPECTROSCOPY Classification of the 3D Spectroscopic Methods Tunable Filters Imaging Fourier Transform Spectrometers Integral Field Spectroscopy Multiple Object Spectroscopy Diverse Field Spectroscopy TRENDS AND PERSPECTIVES Mid-Infrared Photonics Space Photonics Frequency Conversion Quantum Astronomy APPENDIX Materials for Astrophotonics Solution to Selected Exercises Index

About the Author :
Stefano Minardi is a Senior Research Scientist at Institute of Applied Physics the Friedrich Schiller University, Jena (Germany). He obtained a Ph.D. in Physics at the University of Milan (Italy) in 2003 on optical solitons in quadratic nonlinear media. During his post-doc experience in Spain and Greece he considerably extended his expertise in optics and contributed actively to the field of laser-produced plasmas and spatio-temporally resolved microscopy. Since 2008 Dr. Minardi works at the Friedrich Schiller University in Jena, where he started a new research line on astrophotonics. He has already led successfully the development of a photonic metrology system of the Very Large Telescope Interferometer of the European Southern Observatory and devised a new concept for beam combination in astronomical interferometers based on 3D photonic components. He is head of the research group in astronomical instrumentation and is teaching a course in Astrophotonics for Master students at the Abbe School of Photonics.


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  • ISBN-13: 9783527411108
  • Publisher: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH
  • Publisher Imprint: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH
  • Height: 244 mm
  • No of Pages: 350
  • ISBN-10: 3527411100
  • Publisher Date: 04 Apr 2012
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Width: 170 mm


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