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Aiming his work simultaneously at advance undergraduate students and communications engineers, O'Neill (physics, Worcester Polytechnic Institute) presents an introduction to classical statistical optics. If they had appeared alone, he suggests, the first six chapters could have been more accurately titled Communication Theory and Image-Formation Optics because of their coverage of the role of Green's function in mathematical physics, the difference between spatial and time filters, the fundamental relations of paraxial optics, and the effects of the various aberration terms on image formation from the standpoint of physical and geometrical optics. The remaining three chapters add statistical descriptions of the scenes that confront optical instruments and the light itself in scalar and vector form. This is a paperbound edition of a work first published in 1992. Annotation c2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
