Field guide to infrared systems

Content: Glossary --
Introduction --
Electromagnetic spectrum --
Infrared concepts --
Optics --
Imaging concepts --
Magnification factors --
Thick lenses --
Stop and pupils --
F-number and numerical aperture --
Field-of-view --
Combination of lenses --
Afocal systems and refractive telescopes --
Cold-stop efficiency and field stop --
Image quality --
Image anomalies in infrared systems --
Infrared materials --
Material dispersion --
Atmospheric transmittance --
Radiometry and sources --
Solid angle --
Radiometry --
Radiometric terms --
Flux transfer --
Flux transfer for image-forming systems --
Source configurations --
Blackbody radiators --
Planck\'s radiation law --
Stefan-Boltzmann and Wien\'s displacement laws --
Rayleigh-Jeans and Wien\'s radiation laws --
Exitance contrast --
Emissivity --
Kirchhoff\'s law --
Emissivity of various common materials --
Radiometric measure of temperature --
Collimators --
Performance parameters for optical detectors --
Infrared detectors --
Primary sources of detector noise --
Noise power spectral density --
White noise --
Noise-equivalent bandwidth --
Shot noise --
Signal-to-noise ratio : detector and BLIP limits --
Generation-recombination noise --
Johnson noise --
1/f noise and temperature noise --
Detector responsivity --
Spectral responsivity --
Blackbody responsivity --
Noise equivalent power --
Specific or normalized detectivity --
Photovoltaic detectors or photodiodes --
Sources of noise in PV detectors. Expressions for D*[subscript]PV, BLIP, D**[subscript]PV, BLIP, and D*[subscript]PV, JOLI --
Photoconductive detectors --
Sources of noise in PC detectors --
Pyroelectric detectors --
Bolometers --
Bolometers : immersion optics --
Thermoelectic detectors --
Infrared systems --
Raster scan format : single-detector --
Multiple-detector scan formats : serial scene dissection --
Multiple-detector scan formats : parallel scene dissection --
Staring systems --
Search systems and range equation --
Noise equivalent irradiance --
Performance specification : thermal-imaging systems --
MTF definitions --
Optics MTF : calculations --
Electronics MTF : calculations --
MTF measurement setup and sampling effects --
MTF measurement techniques : PSF and LSF --
MTF measurement techniques : ESF and CTF --
MTF measurement techniques : noiselike targets --
MTF measurement techniques : interferometry --
Noise equivalent temperature difference --
NETD measurement technique --
Minimum resolvable temperature difference --
MRTD : calculation --
MRTD measurement technique --
MRTD measurement : automatic test --
Johnson criteria --
Infrared applications --
Appendix. Equation summary --
Notes --
Bibliography --
Index.