David F. Buscher is a lecturer at the Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge, and is System Architect for the Magdalena Ridge Observatory Interferometer, an imaging interferometer under construction in New Mexico. He works on the design, construction and exploitation of optical interferometers and adaptive optics systems and is the UK representative on the Science Council for the European Interferometry Initiative.

'… a rare gem of clear and rigorous explanation …' Barry R. Masters, Optics and Photonic News

• Principal symbols, functions and operators; List of abbreviations; Foreword; Preface; 1. Making fringes; 2. Basic imaging; 3. Atmospheric seeing and its amelioration; 4. Interferometers in practice; 5. Measurement noise; 6. Interferometric observation of faint objects; 7. Observation planning; 8. Data reduction; 9. Model-fitting and image reconstruction; Appendix A. Fourier transforms; Appendix B. Supplementary online material; References; Index.

David F. Buscher is a lecturer at the Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge, and is System Architect for the Magdalena Ridge Observatory Interferometer, an imaging interferometer under construction in New Mexico. He works on the design, construction and exploitation of optical interferometers and adaptive optics systems and is the UK representative on the Science Council for the European Interferometry Initiative.

'… a rare gem of clear and rigorous explanation …' Barry R. Masters, Optics and Photonic News

• Principal symbols, functions and operators; List of abbreviations; Foreword; Preface; 1. Making fringes; 2. Basic imaging; 3. Atmospheric seeing and its amelioration; 4. Interferometers in practice; 5. Measurement noise; 6. Interferometric observation of faint objects; 7. Observation planning; 8. Data reduction; 9. Model-fitting and image reconstruction; Appendix A. Fourier transforms; Appendix B. Supplementary online material; References; Index.

David F. Buscher is a lecturer at the Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge, and is System Architect for the Magdalena Ridge Observatory Interferometer, an imaging interferometer under construction in New Mexico. He works on the design, construction and exploitation of optical interferometers and adaptive optics systems and is the UK representative on the Science Council for the European Interferometry Initiative.

'… a rare gem of clear and rigorous explanation …' Barry R. Masters, Optics and Photonic News

• Principal symbols, functions and operators; List of abbreviations; Foreword; Preface; 1. Making fringes; 2. Basic imaging; 3. Atmospheric seeing and its amelioration; 4. Interferometers in practice; 5. Measurement noise; 6. Interferometric observation of faint objects; 7. Observation planning; 8. Data reduction; 9. Model-fitting and image reconstruction; Appendix A. Fourier transforms; Appendix B. Supplementary online material; References; Index.