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Probability, statistical optics, and data testing
Book reviews
Probability,
Statistical
Springer-Verlag, f28.00; 443 pp.
Optics,
London,
and Data Testing.
1991 (2nd edition).
69
By B. R. Frieden. ISBN 3-540-53310-9;
This second edition of the text, like the first, is intended to be an introductory text on probability and statistics. It is very well written with plenty of illustrative examples. Applications to statistical optics are given to address the reader with some background in optics or linear communication theory. In general the simplest possible statistical model needed is used that fits a given optical phenomenon. However references are given to more advanced models as well in order to assist the interested reader. Statistical optics is covered in the wider sense which apart from the statistics of photon equally emphasises the random medium that surrounds the photon e.g. turbulent atmosphere, vibrations less holder etc. The author has taken care to include an optical application of the statistical theory whenever possible. The applications given are both interesting and informative. For example in Chapter 8 on Stochastic Processes examples given include-atmospheric turbulence, Labeyrie speckle interferometry, noise in images and image restoration. In all the book has 17 chapters and 6 appendices. The final chapter-an introduction to estimation methods is new to the 2nd Edition. I am pleased to see that the text includes a comprehensive subject index. The book is of general interest to anyone working in optics but would be of particular use to postgraduate students or students specialising in optical science. M. J. Lalor
Lasers and Optical Engineering.
By P. Das. Springer-Verlag, berg, 1991. ISBN o-387-97108-4; f40.00 (hardback); 462~~.
Heidel-
This is a text book which deserves to be widely used to provide a major input into degree courses in physics and engineering. It sets out to be a comprehensive text book on optics and their application in an everwidening number of devices and appliances; in this it succeeds to a degree which is quite unusual. Dr Das has been indefatigable in his establishment of the fundamentals-some 200 pages on basic optics and a further 100 pages on lasers; the last third of the book deals with applications.
Probability,
Statistical
Springer-Verlag, f28.00; 443 pp.
Optics,
London,
and Data Testing.
1991 (2nd edition).
69
By B. R. Frieden. ISBN 3-540-53310-9;
This second edition of the text, like the first, is intended to be an introductory text on probability and statistics. It is very well written with plenty of illustrative examples. Applications to statistical optics are given to address the reader with some background in optics or linear communication theory. In general the simplest possible statistical model needed is used that fits a given optical phenomenon. However references are given to more advanced models as well in order to assist the interested reader. Statistical optics is covered in the wider sense which apart from the statistics of photon equally emphasises the random medium that surrounds the photon e.g. turbulent atmosphere, vibrations less holder etc. The author has taken care to include an optical application of the statistical theory whenever possible. The applications given are both interesting and informative. For example in Chapter 8 on Stochastic Processes examples given include-atmospheric turbulence, Labeyrie speckle interferometry, noise in images and image restoration. In all the book has 17 chapters and 6 appendices. The final chapter-an introduction to estimation methods is new to the 2nd Edition. I am pleased to see that the text includes a comprehensive subject index. The book is of general interest to anyone working in optics but would be of particular use to postgraduate students or students specialising in optical science. M. J. Lalor
Lasers and Optical Engineering.
By P. Das. Springer-Verlag, berg, 1991. ISBN o-387-97108-4; f40.00 (hardback); 462~~.
Heidel-
This is a text book which deserves to be widely used to provide a major input into degree courses in physics and engineering. It sets out to be a comprehensive text book on optics and their application in an everwidening number of devices and appliances; in this it succeeds to a degree which is quite unusual. Dr Das has been indefatigable in his establishment of the fundamentals-some 200 pages on basic optics and a further 100 pages on lasers; the last third of the book deals with applications.