Optical Information Processing: A Tribute to Adolf Lohmann

Optical Information Processing: A Tribute to Adolf Lohmann

Editor(s): H. John Caulfield

Published: 2002

https://doi.org/10.1117/3.2265058

PDF ISBN: 9781510607842 | Print ISBN: 9780819444981

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Adolf Lohmann's significant contributions to the field of optics are recognized by key people whose own works have been based on or influenced by his ground-breaking discoveries and inventions. Chapters describe the history, research, and latest trends in optical information processing.
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There are certain people who have particularly enriched not only the field of optics, but our lives as well.We owe the strength and excitement of the recent and ongoing research in the field of optics to these individuals. This book honors one of the recognized masters of optics–Adolf Lohmann. Over a long and continuing career in many countries, Dr. Lohmann has generated new ideas that have propelled the field in new directions. The breadth and brilliance of these insights is breathtaking and well known. This book is made up of chapters written by the friends and colleagues of Dr. Lohmann, all of whom are respected scientists and engineers in their own right. Several of these chapters are extensions of invited talks given at the 2001 SPIE conference that paid tribute to Adolf Lohmann, the first in a series of conference that will celebrate the Masters of Optics. The authors of the chapters comprising this volume hope this book is a worthy celebration of the man we honor. It contains new insights into many fields he has helped create, and even has one chapter on the topic of invention itself. All workers who have read and benefited from Professor Lohmann’swork will enjoy this tribute to him. H. John Caulfield

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Front Matter

CHAPTER 1.

Information Optics Concepts Applied to Image Formation in Volume Scattering Media

Emmett Leith , Kurt Mills , Louis Deslaurier , Shawn Grannell , Brian Hoover , David Dilworth , Hsuan Chen , Marian Shih , Brian Athey , et al.

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CHAPTER 2.

A Statistical Introduction to Temporal Coherence Effects in Interferometers

Pierre Chavel , Jean-Michel Jonathan

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CHAPTER 3.

Wigner Function and Ambiguity Function for Nonparaxial Wavefields

Colin J. Sheppard , Kieran Larkin

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CHAPTER 4.

Gabor’s Signal Expansion Based on a Nonorthogonal Sampling Geometry

Martin Bastiaans

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CHAPTER 5.

Quality Time with the Fractious Fourier Family

Harrison Barrett

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CHAPTER 6.

Synthesis of Optical Fields Characterized by Their Mutual Intensity Functions

Mehmet Alper Kutay , Haldun Ozaktas , Serdar Yüksel

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CHAPTER 7.

The Eye, Hartmann, Shack, and Scheiner

Klaus Biedermann

CHAPTER 8.

Templates for Invention in the Mathematical and Physical Sciences with Applications to Optics

H. John Caulfield

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CHAPTER 9.

Transformation of Holographic Wavefields Caused by the Second-order Nonlinearity of a Nonlinear Recording Material

Yuri Denisyuk , Alessandra Andreoni , Maria Bondani , Marco Alberto Carlo Potenza

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CHAPTER 10.

Spatio-temporal Joint Transform Correlator

Toyohiko Yatagai , Yoshiaki Yasuno

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CHAPTER 11.

Nonlinear Features for Improved Pattern Recognition

David Casasent , Ashit Talukder

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CHAPTER 12.

From Ink Bottles to E-beams: A Historical Perspective of Diffractive Optic Technology

Joseph Mait

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CHAPTER 13.

From Computer-generated Holograms to Optical Signal Processors

David Mendlovic , Zeev Zalevsky , Eran Gur , Gal Shabtay , Uriel Levy , Emanuel Marom

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CHAPTER 14.

Ultrafast Temporal-spatial Optical Information Processing, Conversion, and Transmission

Tsuyoshi Konishi , Yoshiki Ichioka

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CHAPTER 15.

Light Tubes, Wigner Diagrams, and Optical Wave Propagation Simulation

William Rhodes

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