- Hardcover: 820 pages
- Publisher: Wiley; 2 edition (July 17 2009)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0470402296
- ISBN-13: 978-0470402290
- Product Dimensions: 25.4 x 17.8 x 4.1 cm
- Shipping Weight: 1.6 Kg
- Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
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- #26 in Books > Computers & Internet > Computer Science > Circuitry > Optoelectronics
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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)
"...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) --This text refers to an alternate Hardcover edition.
"...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) --This text refers to an alternate Hardcover edition.
Book Description
Praise for the First Edition
"Now a new laboratory bible for optics researchers has joined the list: it is Phil Hobbs's Building Electro-Optical Systems: Making It All Work."
—Tony Siegman, Optics & Photonics News
Building a modern electro-optical instrument may be the most interdisciplinary job in all of engineering. Be it a DVD player or a laboratory one-off, it involves physics, electrical engineering, optical engineering, and computer science interacting in complex ways. This book will help all kinds of technical people sort through the complexity and build electro-optical systems that just work, with maximum insight and minimum trial and error.
Written in an engaging and conversational style, this Second Edition has been updated and expanded over the previous edition to reflect technical advances and a great many conversations with working designers. Key features of this new edition include:
- Expanded coverage of detectors, lasers, photon budgets, signal processing scheme planning, and front ends
- Coverage of everything from basic theory and measurement principles to design debugging and integration of optical and electronic systems
- Supplementary material is available on an ftp site, including an additional chapter on thermal Control and Chapter problems highly relevant to real-world design
- Extensive coverage of high performance optical detection and laser noise cancellation
Each chapter is full of useful lore from the author's years of experience building advanced instruments. For more background, an appendix lists 100 good books in all relevant areas, introductory as well as advanced. Building Electro-Optical Systems: Making It All Work, Second Edition is essential reading for researchers, students, and professionals who have systems to build.
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3.0 out of 5 stars
Excellent but sorely needs references!,
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This review is from: Building Electro-Optical Systems: Making It All Work (Hardcover)
This is an excellent how-to book. It's the Home Depot of optics. But the almost complete lack of references (at least in the edition I reviewed) is a HUGE disappointment. This general text could have been so much more useful with a few selected hooks into the specialized literature. I hope the author and publisher consider this seriously for future editions.
5.0 out of 5 stars
Wow!,
By A Customer
This review is from: Building Electro-Optical Systems: Making It All Work (Hardcover)
I believe I have one of the largest personal libraries on electro-optics, how in the heck did I miss this book?Highly recommended!
5.0 out of 5 stars
One of the best,
By John Lester Miller (USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Building Electro-Optical Systems: Making It All Work (Hardcover)
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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