| Introduction to Linear Systems | p. 1 |
| One and Two-dimensional Fourier Transforms | p. 1 |
| The Discrete Fourier Transform | p. 3 |
| Linear Systems, Convolution and Correlation | p. 4 |
| Geometrical Optics | p. 9 |
| Fermat's Principle | p. 10 |
| Reflection and Refraction | p. 11 |
| Refraction in an Inhomogeneous Medium | p. 15 |
| Matrix Methods in Paraxial Optics | p. 18 |
| The ray transfer matrix | p. 19 |
| Illustrative examples | p. 25 |
| Ray Optics using MATLAB | p. 32 |
| Propagation and Diffraction of Optical Waves | p. 39 |
| Maxwell's Equations: A Review | p. 40 |
| Linear Wave Propagation | p. 43 |
| Traveling-wave solutions | p. 43 |
| Intrinsic impedance, the Poynting vector, and polarization | p. 48 |
| Spatial Frequency Transfer Function for Propagation | p. 53 |
| Examples of Fresnel diffraction | p. 57 |
| MATLAB example: the Cornu Spiral | p. 61 |
| MATLAB example: Fresnel diffraction of a square aperture | p. 63 |
| Fraunhofer diffraction and examples | p. 67 |
| MATLAB example: Fraunhofer diffraction of a square aperture | p. 76 |
| Fourier Transforming Property of Ideal Lenses | p. 80 |
| Gaussian Beam Optics and MATLAB Example | p. 84 |
| q-transformation of Gaussian beams | p. 85 |
| Focusing of a Gaussian beam | p. 87 |
| MATLAB example: propagation of a Gaussian beam | p. 88 |
| Optical Propagation in Inhomogeneous Media | p. 97 |
| Introduction: The Paraxial Wave Equation | p. 97 |
| The Split-step Beam Propagation Method | p. 99 |
| Wave Propagation in a Linear Inhomogeneous Medium | p. 101 |
| Optical propagation through graded index fiber | p. 102 |
| Optical propagation through step index fiber | p. 108 |
| Acousto-optic diffraction | p. 111 |
| Wave Propagation in a Nonlinear Inhomogeneous Medium | p. 117 |
| Kerr Media | p. 118 |
| Photorefractive Media | p. 124 |
| Single and Double Lens Image Processing Systems | p. 133 |
| Impulse Response and Single Lens Imaging System | p. 133 |
| Two-Lens Image Processing System | p. 138 |
| Examples of Coherent Image Processing | p. 140 |
| Incoherent Image Processing and Optical Transfer Function | p. 146 |
| MATLAB Examples of Optical Image Processing | p. 150 |
| Coherent lowpass filtering | p. 150 |
| Coherent bandpass filtering | p. 155 |
| Incoherent spatial filtering | p. 160 |
| Holography and Complex Spatial Filtering | p. 169 |
| Characteristics of Recording Devices | p. 170 |
| The Principle of Holography | p. 173 |
| Construction of Practical Holograms | p. 186 |
| Reconstruction of Practical Holograms and Complex Filtering | p. 189 |
| Holographic Magnification | p. 193 |
| Ray Theory of Holograms: Construction and Reconstruction | p. 199 |
| Contemporary Topics in Optical Image Processing | p. 207 |
| Theory of Optical Heterodyne Scanning | p. 208 |
| Bipolar incoherent image processing | p. 214 |
| Optical scanning holography | p. 219 |
| Acousto-Optic Image Processing | p. 226 |
| Experimental and numerical simulations of 1-D image processing using one acousto-optic cell | p. 227 |
| Improvement with two cascaded acousto-optic cells | p. 231 |
| Two-dimensional processing and four-corner edge enhancement | p. 235 |
| Photorefractive Image Processing | p. 239 |
| Edge enhancement | p. 241 |
| Image broadcasting | p. 243 |
| All-optical joint transform edge-enhanced correlation | p. 245 |
| Dynamic Holography for Phase Distortion Correction of Images | p. 248 |
| Subject Index | p. 257 |
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