Encyclopedia of Optical and Photonic Engineering (Print) - Five Volume Set

Craig A. Hoffman is superintendent of the Optical Sciences Division of the US Naval Research Laboratory (NRL), and a member of the Senior Executive Service. Dr. Hoffman came to the NRL in 1979 as a National Research Council post-doctoral fellow and joined the NRL staff as a research physicist in 1981. He became the associate superintendent of the NRL Optical Sciences Division in 1998, and served as acting superintendent of the division from February 2007 to March 2008 and from October 2013 to October 2014. As a member of the NRL research staff, Dr. Hoffman received Navy Meritorious Unit Commendation Awards in 1996 and 2006. Widely published, Dr. Hoffman is a fellow of the OSA and a member of IEEE, SPIE, Sigma Xi, and Phi Beta Kappa. He holds a BS in physics from Purdue University, and an MS and Ph.D in physics from Brown University.Ronald G. Driggers is CEO of St. Johns Optical Systems, a retired US naval reserve officer, and editor-in-chief of Applied Optics. Previously, he was superintendent of the Optical Sciences Division of the US Naval Research Laboratory and a member of the Senior Executive Service. Before that, he was director of the Modeling and Simulation Division at the US Army’s Night Vision and Electronic Sensors Directorate (NVESD), and worked briefly as chief of the Electro-Optics and Photonics Division at the Army Research Laboratory. He was selected as the 2002 Army Materiel Command’s Engineer of the Year; 2001 Communications-Electronics Research, Development and Engineering Center Technical Employee of the Year; 2001 NVESD Technical Employee of the Year; and 2001 Naval Engineering Duty Officer of the Year. Widely published, Dr. Driggers is a fellow of SPIE, OSA, and the Military Sensing Symposium. He holds a doctorate in electrical engineering from the University of Memphis.

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• Applications. Astronomy. Fiber Optics and Optical Communications. Measurement and Metrology. Medical Optics and Biotechnology. Optical Computing. Optical Data Storage. Optical Signal Processing. Optical Microscopy. Photovoltaics. Radiometry. Remote Sensing. Spectroscopy. X-Ray Optics. Detectors. Photon Detectors. Thermal Detectors. Imaging Systems and Image Processing. Displays. Holography. Image Compression. Image Processing. Imaging Fundamentals. Imaging Systems. Machine Vision. Vision and Color. Lasers and Other Sources. Ultrafast Lasers. Materials and Devices. Concepts. Devices: Design, Fabrication, and Characterization. Electro-Optics. Integrated Optics. Liquid Crystals. Nonlinear Optics. Photonic Crystals. Reticles. Scanners. Surface Effects in Optics. Thin Films and Optical Coatings. Propagation. Atmospheric Optics and Oceanic Optics. Coherence and Statistical Optics. Diffraction and Gratings. Plasmonics. Quantum Optics. Scattering.