Information Optics and Photonics

This book addresses applications, recent advances, and emerging areas in fields with applications in information optics and photonics systems. The objective of this book is to illustrate and discuss novel approaches, analytical techniques, models, and technologies that enhance sensing, measurement, processing, interpretation, and visualization of information using free space optics and photonics.The material in this book concentrates on integration of diverse fields for cross-disciplinary applications including bio-photonics, digitally enhanced sensing and imaging systems, multi-dimensional optical imaging and image processing, bio-inspired imaging, 3D visualization, 3D displays, imaging on the nano-scale, quantum optics, super resolution imaging, photonics for biological applications, and holographic information systems. As a result, this book is a useful resource for researchers, engineers, and graduate students who work in the diverse fields comprising information optics and photonics.

Optical Devices and Systems.- General Solution of Two-Dimensional Beam-Shaping with Two Surfaces.- Nanophotonics for Information Systems.- Liquid Crystal Light-Valves for Slow-Light and Applications.- Diversity of Optical Signal Processing Led by Optical Signal Form Conversion.- Dynamic Wavefront Sensing and Correction with Low-Cost Twisted Nematic Spatial Light Modulators.- Nanoinjection Detectors and Imagers for Sensitive and Efficient Infrared Detection.- Biological Applications of Stimulated Parametric Emission Microscopy and Stimulated Raman Scattering Microscopy.- 3D Passive/Active Imaging and Visualization.- Novel Approaches in 3D Sensing, Imaging, and Visualization.- Overview of Free-viewpoint TV (FTV).- Presentation and Perception of Digital Hologram Reconstructions of Real-World Objects on Conventional Stereoscopic Displays.- Parallel Phase-Shifting Digital Holography Based on the Fractional Talbot Effect.- Improvement of Viewing-Zone Angle and Image Quality of Digital Holograms.- Shot Noise in Digital Holography.- Deformation of Digital Holograms for Full Control of Focus and for Extending the Depth of Field.- Zoom Algorithms for Digital Holography.- Polarimetric Imaging.- Partial Polarization of Optical Beams: Temporal and Spectral Descriptions.- A Degree of Freedom and Metrics Approach for Nonsingular Mueller Matrices Characterizing Passive Systems.- Resolution-Enhanced Imaging Based upon Spatial Depolarization of Light.- Algorithms for Imaging and Analysis.- Hybrid Imaging Systems for Depth of Focus Extension With or Without Postprocessing.- Multispectral Image Pansharpening Based on the Contourlet Transform.- Faces Robust Image Hashing by ICA: An Attempt to Optimality.- Minkowski Metrics: Its Interaction and Complementarity with Euclidean Metrics.