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Photonics Rules of Thumb: Optics, Electro-Optics, Fiber Optics and Lasers

By John Miller , Ed Friedman

Book information

Publisher
McGraw-Hill Professional
Year
2003
ISBN
0071385193, 9780071433457
DOI
10.1036/0071385193
LCC
TA1520 .F75 2004
Open Library ID
OL3690287M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
4 MB (4640533 bytes)
Edition
2
Pages
433\433
Time added
2010-02-18 13:16:04

Description

I'm a great fan of lore books as opposed to textbooks or reference books. Lore books are the ones that contain the things that many people in the field may know, but which they had to learn the hard way, and I like them because they help me learn the easy way.Miller and Friedman have written a fun and useful lore book, which has helped a lot of electro-optics people (including me) stay out of some nasty potholes. The book is inexpensive, and if you're building or specifying electro-optical systems of any sort, you should own it.Note added 8/08:I still think Miller and Friedman is a useful book, but at this point I'd want to qualify my paean above: there's a certain amount of sloppiness in the way some of these rules are presented that keeps it from being a fully reliable guide. (3-1/2 stars)

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