Phase-Space Optics : Fundamentals and Applications

A comprehensive cross section of phase-space optics

This definitive volume highlights an elegant, unified approach to optical rays, waves, and system design using cutting-edge phase-space techniques. Phase-Space Optics : Fundamentals and Applications details theoretical concepts of phase space as well as novel engineering applications in specific disciplines. This authoritative guide includes full coverage of sampling, superresolution imaging, and the phase-space interpretation of ultrafast optics. Work with Wigner optics, analyze phase-space equations, develop wave propagation models, and gain a new understanding of optical sources and systems. Discover how to:

• Describe optical phenomena using Wigner and ambiguity functions
• Perform phase-space rotations using ray transformation matrices
• Influence the trade-off between pupil size and depth of field
• Analyze and design optical signals using the Radon-Wigner transform
• Accomplish superresolution by squeezing phase space
• Interpret the intimate relationship between radiometry and coherence
• Use basic algebra to discover self-imaging, Fresnel diffraction, and the Talbot effect
• Develop discrete models, sampling criteria, and interpolation formulae
• Work with ultrafast processes and complex space-time structures

Preface

Chapter 1 : The Wigner Distribution in Optics
Chapter 2 : Ambiguity Function in Optical Engineering
Chapter 3 : Rotations in Phase Space
Chapter 4 : The Radon-Wigner Transform in Analysis, Design and Processing of Optical Signals
Chapter 5 : Imaging Systems : Phase-Space Representations
Chapter 6 : Super-Resolved Imaging in Wigner Based Phase Space
Chapter 7 : Radiometry, Wave Optics and Spatial Coherence
Chapter 8 : Rays and Waves
Chapter 9 : Self-Imaging in Phase Space
Chapter 10 : Sampling in Phase-Space
Chapter 11 : Discrete Representations
Chapter 12 : Phase Space in Ultrafast Optics

Index