Photoelectronic Imaging Devices

The past decade has seen a major resurgence in optical research and the teaching of optics in the major universities both in this country and abroad. Electrooptical devices have become achallenging subject of study that has penetrated both the electrical engineering and the physics departments of most major schools. There seems to be something about the laser that has appealed to both the practical electrical engineer with a hankering for fundamental research and to the fundamental physicist with a hankering to be practical. Somehow or other, this same form of enthusiasm has not previously existed in the study of photoelectronic devices that form images. This field of endeavor is becoming more and more sophisticated as newer forms of solid-state devices enter the field, not only in the data-processing end, but in the conversion of radiant energy into electrical charge patterns that are stored, manipulated, and read out in a way that a decade ago would have been considered beyond some fundamental limit or other.

of Volume 1.- 1 Introduction.- I Radiometry, Radiance, and Vision.- 2 Luminance, Radiance, and Temperature.- 3 Natural Levels of Illumination and Irradiance.- 4 Visual Detection Process for Electrooptical Images: Man-The Final Stage of an Electrooptical Imaging System.- 5 Visual Systems for Night Vision.- II Basic Functions.- 6 Photoconductivity.- 7 Photoemissive Cathodes: I. Photoemissive Surfaces in Imaging Devices.- 8 Photoemissive Cathodes: II. Recent Photocathode Developments with Emphasis on III-V Compounds.- 9 Noise Performances of the Channel Electron Multiplier.- 10 Electron Optics.- III Analysis.- 11 Specifications for Electronic Image-Forming Devices.- 12 Transfer Characteristics and Spectral Response of Television Camera Tubes.- 13 The Modulation Transfer Function and Methods of Measurement.- 14 The Limiting Resolution of Low-Light-Level Imaging Sensors.- IV Introduction to Systems.- 15 System Analysis.- 16 Electrooptical System Evaluation.- 17 Backscatter Effects in Active Illumination Systems.