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Optoelectronics, Fiber Optics, and Laser Cookbook
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by Thomas Petruzzellis
Sales Rank: 1276871
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$49.95
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Hardcover: 322 pages
Publisher: Mcgraw-Hill June 11, 1997
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0070498393
ISBN-13: 978-0070498396
Product Dimensions:
9.8 x 7.8 x 1.2 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.8 pounds
Book Description
Perfect for the electronics hobbyists, this book presents the fascinating fields of optoelectronics, fiberoptics, and lasers in a simple, easy-to-understand style. Here, readers will find a wide collection of projects, experiments, discussions and demonstrations, accompanied by diagrams, schematics and parts lists that make constructing the described project easy and fun. And it includes an appendix of suppliers for needed components.
Book Info
A detailed, easy-to-follow discussion of optoelectronics, explaining its essentials & future trends in nontechnical terms & using fun projects to demonstrate how optical circuits work. Paper. DLC: Electronics-Amateurs manual.
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Customer Reviews & Comments
This review is from: Optoelectronics, Fiber Optics, and Laser Cookbook (Paperback)
If you are a physicist or engineer, you'll find plenty of textbooks on optics, electronics, and optoelectronics, but probably not many examples of optoelectronic circuits. That is where the value of this book lies. There are the very basics of theory on optics in these chapters, but you will need to read other books to really be able to say you know optics. Chapter 3 is where the book takes a big upswing in quality and uniqueness. This chapter on optocouplers and optointerfacing and the example circuits are brilliant. Obvious and plain commonsense, you'll ask yourself "why didn't I think of it"? "Optocouplers and optointerfacing" presents a great many circuits for any number of purposes and the standouts would have to be the TTL - to - RS-232 interface, RS-232 infrared data transmission system and, a high speed RS-232 infrared computer interface. In later chapters we get to "wireless security systems" another interesting subject. The schematics are quite clear, contain comprehensive parts lists and include manufacturers of unusual parts. I didn't check the degree of ease or difficulty of sourcing these parts but I note that light dependent resistors and the phototransistor are manufactured by Vactec. They are not mentioned in the appendix of sources and vendors. Later chapters in my opinion only get better and better provided you have an interest in these areas. In summary I highly recommend this book to individuals who want to get their hands on some concrete projects that unite the power of electronics and optics, provided they have other sources for the theory and also provided they are prepared to do some hunting for some of the rarer devices needed to build some of the circuits.
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