AcoustoOptics

Acousto-optics is an important sub-field of optical science and engineering, and as such is quite properly well represented in our series on Optical Engineering. This representation includes the fundamentals and important applications including signal processing, scanning, spectrum analysers, tuned filters, and imaging systems. The fundamentals and the underpinning for these and other applications were thoroughly covered in thefirst edition of Acousto-Optics, which was published in our series in 1988 (volume 16). Now we are pleased to bring out a new edition of this important treatise that covers both the basic concepts and how these basic concepts are used in practical devices, subsystems,, and systems. Many new sections have been added to both the theory and practice parts of the book.