Introduction to radiometry

by Wolfe, William Louis

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Full title :Introduction to radiometry / William L. Wolfe.

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2. Radiometric quantities, the language -- Angle and Solid Angle -- Projected Area and Projected Solid Angle -- Definitions of Basic Radiometric Quantities -- Photonic Radiometric Quantities -- Spectral Variables -- Spectral Radiometric Quantities -- Luminous Quantities -- Fluometry -- The Chinese Restaurant System.

3. Radiative transfer -- The Fundamental Equation of Radiative Transfer -- Lambertian Emitters -- Transfer between a Differential Element and a Disk -- Other Geometries and Distributions.

4. Transmission, reflection, emission, and absorption -- Some Definitions -- The Conservation of Power -- Kirchhoff's Law -- Absorption and Emission -- Transmission and Reflection -- Some Examples -- Relationships among Transmissivity, Reflectivity, Absorptivity, and Emissivity.

5. Radiance -- The Invariance of Radiance in a Vacuum -- Invariance of (Reduced) Radiance across an Interface -- The Invariance of Throughput -- Path Radiance.

6. Sources -- Laser Sources -- Blackbodies -- Cavity Radiators -- Thermal Sources.

7. Detectors -- Detector Descriptions -- Detector Types -- Detector Noises -- Summary of Noises -- Summary of Detector Properties -- Some Real Problems.

8. Review of optics -- Photons, Waves, and Rays -- Interference -- Diffraction -- The Thin Lens -- Ray Traces -- Paraxial Ray Traces -- Aberrations -- Stops and Pupils.

9. Normalization -- The Need for Normalization -- Effective Values -- Photometry -- An Illuminating Example -- Other Normalizations -- Normalization to the Peak -- Normalization to the Average -- Normalization to the Bandwidth -- A Nasty Denormalization.

10. Calibration standards -- Types of Standards -- Photometric Standards -- Flux Standards -- Synchrotrons -- Material Standards.

11. Measurement techniques -- Relative and Absolute Measurements -- Errors -- Rules of Measurement -- The Measurement Equation -- A Taxonomy of Measurements.