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Scalar Diffraction from a Circular Aperture Softcover Repri Edition
Contributor(s): Daly, Charles J. (Author), Rao, Navalgund A. H. K. (Author)
ISBN: 1461370019     ISBN-13: 9781461370017
Publisher: Springer
OUR PRICE:   $161.49  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: July 2013
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BISAC Categories:
- Medical | Biotechnology
- Science | Physics - Optics & Light
- Technology & Engineering | Electrical
Dewey: 535.42
Series: The Springer International Engineering and Computer Science
Physical Information: 0.42" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" (0.62 lbs) 175 pages
 
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Scalar diffraction from a circular aperture is a ubiquitous problem that arises in a variety of disciplines, such as optics (lenses), acoustics (speakers), electromagnetics (dish antennas), and ultrasonics (piston transducers). The problem endures despite centuries of research because each new generation of researchers rediscovers it and adds some novel insight or new result to the existing literature. Scalar Diffraction from a Circular Aperture promises a few new results and several novel insights, particularly with regard to spatial averaging. Although the text emphasizes ultrasonic diffraction, the results and insights developed are general and may be applied to the many practical problems involving scalar diffraction from a circular aperture.
Included are novel insights on mirror-image diffraction, autoconvolution diffraction, and coherent and incoherent averaging. Examples from ultrasonic imaging, a coherent imaging modality, are used to develop a fairly general theory that connects over a century of research on scalar diffraction from a circular aperture. The material is based on a synthesis of mathematics, physical optics, linear systems theory, and scalar diffraction theory. Thus, engineers, scientists, mathematicians, and students working in optics, acoustics, antenna design, biomedical engineering, non-destructive testing, and astronomy will find Scalar Diffraction from a Circular Aperture interesting, provocative, and useful.