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Building Electro-Optical Systems: Making It All Work (Hardcover)

by Philip C. D. Hobbs (Author) "Okay, we've decided to build an electro-optical system..." (more)
Key Phrases: etalon fringes, lateral effect cells, residual intensity noise, New York, Analog Circuit Design, Jim Williams (more...)

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"Hobbs provides a comprehensive overview on the design and construction of electro-optical systems." -- Choice, Vol. 38, No. 8, April 2001

"Hobbs provides a comprehensive overview on the design and construction of electro-optical systems." (Choice, Vol. 38, No. 8, April 2001)

"...scientists, engineers, and anyone else needing help building electro-optical systems will be well aided by this volume...extremely useful...for academic and special libraries supporting programs in electro-optical engineering..." (E-Streams, Vol. 4, No. 9)

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While most books on electro-optical systems concentrate on an individual subfield, this one presents an overview of the whole field, providing researchers with working knowledge of a number of cross-disciplinary areas. It includes essential information on how to build modern electro-optical instruments such as microscopes, cameras, optical inspection equipment, and spectrometers, and optical-related computer equipment.

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Hardcover: 0668 pages
Publisher: Wiley-Interscience; 1 edition (June 23, 2000)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0471246816
ISBN-13: 978-0471246817
Product Dimensions: 10 x 7.4 x 1.6 inches
Shipping Weight: 3.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)

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Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
etalon fringes, lateral effect cells, residual intensity noise, transimpedance amp, photon budget, full shot noise, technical taste, postprocessing strategy, bend birefringence, lateral voltage drops, scalar optics, circuit hacks, scallop loss, noise canceller, distortion polynomial, biased cascode, coating stack, laser intensity noise, circuit strays, capacitance multiplier, baseline restoration, detector subsystem, quad cell, circuit tricks, plane wave spectrum

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New York, Analog Circuit Design, Jim Williams, Mini Circuits, Numerical Recipes, Applied Optics, The Art of Electronics, Analog Devices, Cambridge University Press, National Semiconductor, Principles of Optics, Pergamon Press, Prentice Hall, Rule of One, Statistical Optics, Upper Saddle River, Academic Press, Troubleshooting Analog Circuits, American Radio Relay League, Artech House, Douglas Adams, Handbook of Filter Synthesis, Lens Design Fundamentals, Photonics Rules of Thumb, Review of Scientific Instruments

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5.0 out of 5 stars One of the best, August 1, 2002

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When I meet someone new-to-me in the field, I have taken to the habit of eyeing up their bookshelf, looking for the books that they use. Whenever I see this incredible tome from Phil Hobbs, I know they have an excellent resource. Frankly, I believe that you should be embarased if this book is not on your shelf. This book is simply too good to miss. I recommend that you stop reading this review and buy it!

Phil has managed to cram information of a 100,000+ academic pages into this 727 page gem. His mastery of separating the chemicral from the root of the information is truly amazing. This guy understands what it takes to make a system work and astutely put it into this work. He gives pointers for lab rats as to the number of "post-it" notes to use to elevate an optical component, as well as detail theoretical discussions of detector sensitivity and the practical impact of the electronics.

The writing is sometimes folksy and hip. I find this an incredible relief from the academic 3rd person passive forced by many publishers. Phil occasionally gets funny and at least a few times, his folksy style is only used to clearly underscore the salient point that he is making.

My negative criticism of Hobbs is primarily why it took him until 2000 to publish this book---I could have used it 25 years ago, and whis I had this book in college! Also, a glossary would have been nice to include.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Instant Classic, June 14, 2000

By	John Quinlan "quinlanj@voicenet.com" (Philadelphia, PA) - See all my reviews

This book has achieved instant classic status around our electronics and optics labs, and sits prominently on my bookshelf along with Horowitz & Hill, Gray & Meyer, Dostal, Johnson & Graham, some other highly-valued technical texts and app. notes. The amount of knowledge packed into it is truly intimidating. It covers both the electronics and optics parts of electro-optical systems, from the practical perspective of someone who obviously has had a lot of hard-core experience in designing, constructing and "making them work." Besides the basic theory, there are a lot of tricks, techniques and technical lore that I've never seen in other textbooks. As an EE-type thrust into the world of electro-optics when I started a new job, I found the section on low-noise photodiode amplifiers to be particularly valuable. Its common-sense approach to performance and component tradeoffs is the best I've come across.

One warning: this book is not for beginners - it's aimed mostly at the graduate or senior undergraduate level, although an advanced technician would probably gain something from it.

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5.0 out of 5 stars For anyone working with optical systems, June 23, 2000

By	Paul Moskowitz (Yorktown, NY) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Phil Hobbs has written an in-depth practical study of the field of optics and electro-optics. The book covers subjects including: sources, detectors, lenses, prisms, mirrors, coatings, gratings and exotic components, fiber optics, electro-optical systems, signal processing, and electronics. It is no surprise that it runs to over 700 pages. It is an excellent reference book for anyone working with optical systems. The material is presented in a straight-forward manner using equations only where they are needed. I wish that I had this book as a graduate student.

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