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Building Electro-Optical Systems: Making It All Work (Wiley Series in Pure and Applied Optics)

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Building Electro-Optical SystemsIn the newly revised third edition of Building Electro-Optical Systems: Making It All Work, renowned Dr. Philip C. D. Hobbs delivers a birds-eye view of all the topics you’ll need to understand for successful optical instrument design and construction. The author draws on his own work as an applied physicist and consultant with over a decade of experience in designing and constructing electro-optical systems from beginning to end. The book’s topics are chosen to allow readers in a variety of disciplines and fields to quickly and confidently decide whether a given device or technique is appropriate for their needs. Using accessible prose and intuitive organization, Building Electro-Optical Systems remains one of the most practical and solution-oriented resources available to graduate students and professionals. The newest edition includes comprehensive revisions that reflect progress in the field of electro-optical instrument design and construction since the second edition was published. It also offers approximately 350 illustrations for visually oriented learners. Readers will also enjoy: A thorough introduction to basic optical calculations, including wave propagation, detection, coherent detection, and interferometersPractical discussions of sources and illuminators, including radiometry, continuum sources, incoherent line sources, lasers, laser noise, and diode laser coherence controlExplorations of optical detection, including photodetection in semiconductors and signal-to-noise ratiosFull treatments of lenses, prisms, and mirrors, as well as coatings, filters, and surface finishes, and polarizationPerfect for graduate students in physics, electrical engineering, optics, and optical engineering, Building Electro-Optical Systems is also an ideal resource for professional designers working in optics, electro-optics, analog electronics, and photonics. Read more

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Wiley


Publication date ‏ : ‎ January 26, 2022


Edition ‏ : ‎ 3rd


Language ‏ : ‎ English


Print length ‏ : ‎ 832 pages


ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1119438977


ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 77


Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 4.2 pounds


Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 8.8 x 1.5 x 11.1 inches


Part of series ‏ : ‎ Wiley Series in Pure and Applied Optics


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    • Provides a much-needed master class in creating electro optical systems
Format: Hardcover
This comprehensive review of decades of lab and practical experience in creating electro optical systems is required reading for students and practitioners in the field.
Reviewed in the United States on January 26, 2026 by Henry
    • A long-awaited update to a modern-day engineering classic
Format: Hardcover
The latest edition of Philip C. D. Hobbs's "Building Electro-Optical Systems" definitely lives up to its "Making it All Work" subtitle. Phil has many years of experience in the EO field, running the gamut from biomedical applications to EUV lithography, and he isn't afraid to relate the failures and near-misses he's seen alongside the many successful designs he's been involved with. These real-world anecdotes and case studies bring the technical topics to life in a way that many authors are unable to match. The first thing you'll notice is the book's physical size, at least if you're still into the whole printed-word thing. It's somewhat larger than usual, which helps keep the page count under control. Combined with its top-notch binding, paper, and print quality, this keeps the book from feeling as flimsy and fragile as many weighty technical books do these days. Its sheer breadth of content is, as with the previous edition, just plain humbling. The table of contents alone is about 30 pages long. As with the previous edition, the title is somewhat unfortunate. Many people who need this book, or who would simply enjoy it, will not bother to pick it up because they "don't do optical stuff." This is one book you don't want to judge by its cover, as it contains plenty of relevant content for designers of electronic instrumentation who work in other fields where every dB and nanovolt counts. My guess is that almost all fans of Horowitz & Hill's Art of Electronics and its accompanying X Chapters volume will find this one worthwhile too. ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on February 17, 2022 by KE5FX
    • Good book
Format: Hardcover
Good book
Reviewed in the United States on October 28, 2025 by Ajay
    • The book of lore
Format: Hardcover
This book is compendium of experience as much as it is of knowledge. The author artfully steps between theory and practice. The lessons contained in the book were obviously earned through many years of hands on experience. Every time I cracked it open to look for information on the design and test measurement techniques for real EO applications I've found what I've been looking for. This book is a real find. ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on August 7, 2023 by John
    • The first book anyone should buy for a new career in lasers and electro-optics
Format: Hardcover
Absolutely essential reading for anyone setting out on a journey in electro-optics, laser-based instrumentation and experimentation, remote sensing, etc. Informative, fun to read, full of good practical advice.
Reviewed in the United States on December 28, 2024 by Amazon Customer
    • The best book for designing and prototyping optical and low frequency analog electronic systems
Format: Hardcover
I cannot say enough good things about this book. If I had known about it when I was a graduate student, it would probably have saved me > 1000 hours during my Ph.D in atomic physics. I consistently recommend it to graduate students or professional scientists/engineers who work with optics, electronics or both. There are many things this book is not. It is not a treatise on any particular subject (except possibly how to build the best photodiode amplifiers). It is not full of derivations. And it does not present all possible ways to build a given widget and then go through the strengths and weaknesses of each path. Rather, this is a book comprised mainly of two things: What are the most common pitfalls when implementing XYZ system, and what needs to be done for the system to approach performance limits imposed by fundamental physics. In other words, this book is best to help a moderately experienced person avoid dumb mistakes and squeeze every last half dB of SNR out of their system. The author states plainly many things that most people are initially unaware of or learn the hard way: which resistors to use for minimal excess noise, that only the first 18 bits of your 24-bit sigma delta ADC contain useful information, what temperature to set your soldering iron, which capacitor technology should be used when and where, and many, many more tidbits. The book contains the best tutorial on building photodiode amplifiers bar none. And many of the author's tricks have been integrated into my toolset (e.g. an incandescent battery-powered flashlight is an excellent near shot noise limited light source), it is ok to use post-it notes as tiny shims in an optical setup, the use of capacitance multipliers to clean up noisy supplier, that the ADA4898 is a fantastic general-purpose op-amp. The author also tells the reader how to do dead bug prototyping and prototype circuits fast, including what to buy and gives pictures of his own dead bug prototypes. Make no mistake about it, the author is an ultra-expert; in fact, if you read Horowitz and Hill Art of Electronics 3rd edition, they make several references to learning tricks from this author. I like this book so much I use both the 3rd edition and 2nd editions, which brings to me to one minor complaint; the tables of his favorite electronics components (op-amps, JFETs, BJTs) are quite useful but the op-amp table was removed in the 3rd edition. I understand such tables sometimes don’t age well, but it is always helpful to see the author's go-to components. ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on November 14, 2025 by John B.
    • The Horowitz and Hill of optics / electro-optics
Format: Hardcover
I was just getting the link to recommend this to yet another colleague, and saw this book had only 4 reviews... which is criminal for such a useful, helpful, and frankly fun book, so I am adding this review. First, the book is absolutely five stars; if you are the sort of person that likes Horowitz and Hill's 'Art of Electronics' (AOE), then this book is for you, if just for the circuits/electronics discussions. Order it without hesitation. The book is also at every bit as high a level as AOE -- this is not a book to read until you've had circuits, and built a few, and similarly have been doing more than your first class in optics. The people I recommend it to are usually PhD graduate students or postdocs, and most of the people I know who have already read it when the topic comes up are professors or senior engineering staff. I definitely wish I had had this around the time I started my 2nd year in graduate school... it is full of lore and practical tricks, and also drops deep technical insights in passing in a way that just makes reading it continually fun (in that regard, much like AOE). The product came out long ago, but the New Focus (now Newport) 'Nirvana' balanced photodetectors are based on Hobbs' design and patent. The title of one of his papers on that, 'Ultrasensitive laser noise measurements without tears' probably sums up the conversational style of his writing. If you've ever needed to design a photodiode front end, and started to wonder about the details... Hobbs lays it all out beautifully in this book, along with many other handy pieces of the optical measurement puzzle. In terms of the level of the book, it's best if you've been through a Fourier optics book like Goodman, and/or a signals and systems / transforms class, and perhaps Jackson's E&M, etc., before trying to get too much from this book. For those who have seen that sort of material, or at least some of it, Hobbs ties it together in unexpected and insightful ways that are extremely useful but also just make one remember the joy of science. This review is based on the 1st edition, which I read, and the 2nd, which I keep snagging off a colleague's shelf and had been meaning to order until... I see now there is a 3rd :) Realize that there is a 3rd edition for good reason; all the serious optics people I know seem to already be aware of and usually own this book, despite the fact that no one talks about it... perhaps because it isn't really a textbook. It's like some high-level technical lore book optimized for graduate students and practitioners. If you are one of those, it is for you, and worth every penny. The book is a service to the profession, but even better than that, it's fun to read. I have no idea why there are only four reviews. ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on January 3, 2023 by somebody

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