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Field Guide to Radiometry
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Written from a systems engineering perspective, this Field Guide covers topics in optical radiation propagation, material properties, sources, detectors, system components, measurement, calibration, and photometry. Appendices provide material on SI units, conversion factors, source luminance data, and many other subjects. The book's organization and extensive collection of diagrams, tables, and graphs will enable the reader to efficiently identify and apply relevant information to radiometric problems arising amid the demands of today's fast-paced technical environment.
Table of Contents
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Front Matter
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- Introduction to Radiometry
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1. The Electromagnetic Spectrum
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2. The Basics
- Propagation of Optical Radiation
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3. Plane and Solid Angles
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5. f/# and Numerical Aperture
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7. Photon Quantities
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8. Spectral Radiant Quantities
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10. Exitance-Radiance Relationship
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12. Isotropic and Lambertian Sources
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13. Inverse Square Law of Irradiance
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15. Throughput and Its Invariance
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16. Area and Solid Angle Products
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19. Configuration Factors
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20. Power Transfer: Point Source
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21. Power Transfer: Extended Source
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22. Power Transfer: Field Lens Added
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23. Irradiance from a Lambertian Disk
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25. The Integrating Sphere
- Radiometric Properties of Materials
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27. Overview of Material Properties
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28. Transmission
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29. Reflection
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33. Single-Surface Illustrations
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34. More on Specular Propagation
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36. Materials as Targets
- Generation of Optical Radiation
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38. Planck's Law
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42. Kirchoff's Law
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43. Natural Sources
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45. Artificial Sources
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46. Luminescent Mechanisms
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47. Some Luminescent Sources
- Detectors of Optical Radiation
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48. Detector Types
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49. Detector Definitions
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50. More Detector Definitions
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51. Detector Figures of Merit
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52. Noise Concepts and Definitions
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53. The Most Unpleasant Noises
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54. More Unpleasant Noises
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55. Thermal Detectors
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56. Thermoelectric Detectors
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57. The Bolometer
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58. Pyroelectric Detectors
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59. Photon Detectors
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60. Photoconductive Detectors
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61. Photoemissive Detectors
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62. Photovoltaic Detectors
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64. Detector Interfacing
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65. Single and Multiple Detectors
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66. Detector Array Architectures
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67. Choosing a Detector
- Radiometric System Components
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68. Choppers and Radiation References
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69. Baffles and Cosine Correctors
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70. Spectral Separation Mechanisms
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71. Prisms and Gratings
- Calibration and Measurement
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73. Radiometric Calibration Basics
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75. Distant Small Source Calibration
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77. More on Collimators
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78. Extended Source Calibrations
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79. Other Calibration Methods
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80. The Measurement Equation
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81. Errors in Measurements
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83. The Range Equation
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84. Radiometric Temperatures
- Photometry
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85. Photometric Quantities
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86. Human Visual Response
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88. Sources and the Eye's Response
- Appendices
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89. SI Base Quantities, Prefixes, and Uncertainty Reporting
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91. Source Luminance Values
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92. More Source Values
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93. Solid Angle Relationships
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94. Rays, Stops, and Pupils
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95. Diffraction
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Equation Summary
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Back Matter
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Excerpt
Based on the SPIE bestseller The Art of Radiometry by James M. Palmer and Barbara G. Grant, this Field Guide provides a practical, hands-on approach to the subject that the engineer, scientist, or student can use in real time. Readers of the earlier work will recognize similar topics in condensed form, along with many new figures and a chapter on photometry.
Written from a systems engineering perspective, this book covers topics in optical radiation propagation, material properties, sources, detectors, system components, measurement, calibration, and photometry. Appendices provide material on SI units, conversion factors, source luminance data, and many other subjects. The book's organization and extensive collection of diagrams, tables and graphs will enable the reader to efficiently identify and apply relevant information to radiometric problems arising amid the demands of today's fast-paced technical environment.
I gratefully acknowledge the contributions to my education and career from three professors of Optical Sciences at the University of Arizona, gentlemen all. They are the late Jim Palmer (1937-2007), who mentored me in radiometry for many years and provided the opportunity for me to complete The Art of Radiometry; Emeritus Professor Phil Slater, who selected me as a graduate student and trained me in remote sensing, and who continues to encourage and support me; and Eustace Dereniak, who generously shared his knowledge from the very first, provided me my first opportunities to teach, and strongly supported my career for more than twenty years. To all, my heartfelt thanks.
This book is dedicated to my family and particularly to the memory of my father, William Grant of Chicago, Illinois, a US Navy veteran of WWII who taught me to play the Garryowen as soon as my fingers could reach a piano keyboard.
Barbara G. Grant
August 2011
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