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Posted by Phil Hobbs on July 18, 2008, 12:36 pm
Please log in for more thread options and I'm putting in a bibliography of a hundred or so good books for advanced students as well as pros from other fields, which is attached below. Two requests: (1) Please have a squint at the list, and let me know what you think. (2) Please tell me the best books you know of on circuits, optics, instruments, and a line or two about why they're so good. (The payoff is that you might learn about some good books too.) Thanks, Phil Hobbs ------------------- long bibliography follows ------------- MATH AND DSP Abramowitz and Stegun, Handbook of Mathematical Functions Acton. Numerical Methods That Work Arfken and Weber. Mathematical Methods for Physicists Bender and Orszag. Advanced Mathematical Methods for Scientists and Engineers: Asymptotic Methods and Perturbation Theory Bracewell. The Fourier Transform and Its Applications Brigham. The Fast Fourier Transform Daniel Zwillinger, editor. CRC Standard Mathematical Tables Davis and Rabinowitz. Methods of Numerical Integration Gelfand and Fomin. Calculus of Variations Ghiglia and Pritt. Two Dimensional Phase Unwrapping Gradshteyn and Ryzhik. Tables of Integrals, Series, and Products Hamming. Digital Filters Hart et al. Computer Approximations Horn and Johnson. Matrix Analysis Papoulis. Probability, Statistics, and Stochastic Processes Press, Flannery, Teukolsky, Vetterling. Numerical Recipes in C Rabiner and Gold. Theory and Application of DSP Ralston and Rabinowitz. A First Course in Numerical Analysis ELECTROMAGNETICS Harrington. Field Computation by Moment Methods Harrington. Time Harmonic Electromagnetic Fields Jackson. Classical Electrodynamics Oppenheim and Shafer. Digital Signal Processing Ramo, Whinnery, and Van Duzer. Fields and Waves in Communication Electronics Taflove and Hagness. Computational Electrodynamics OPTICS Accetta and Shumaker, The Infrared and Electro-Optical Systems Handbook (8 vols) Bass. Handbook of Optics: Classical, Vision, and X-Ray Optics, volume III Bass. Handbook of Optics: Devices, Measurements, and Properties, volume II Bass. Handbook of Optics: Fiber Optics and Nonlinear Optics, volume IV Bass. Handbook of Optics: Fundamentals, Techniques, and Design, volume I Bloembergen. Nonlinear Optics Born and Wolf. Principles of Optics Borovikov and Kinber. Geometrical Theory of Diffraction Fischer. Optical Systems Design Gerrard and Burch. Introduction To Matrix Methods In Optics Goodman. Introduction to Fourier Optics Goodman. Statistical Optics Hecht. Optics Kawano and Kitoh. Introduction to Optical Waveguide Analysis Kingslake. Lens Design Fundamentals Kingslake. Optical Systems Design Klein and Furtak. Optics Mahajan. Aberration Theory Made Simple Smith. Modern Optical Engineering Stamnes. Waves in Focal Regions Ufimtsev. Elements of the Physical Theory of Diffraction Wolfe and Zissis. The Infrared Handbook DETECTORS AND INSTRUMENTS Culshaw and Dakin. Optical Fibre Sensors Vol 3: Components and Subsystems Dereniak and Boreman. Infrared Detectors and Systems Hanbury Brown. The Intensity Interferometer Hudson. Infrared Systems Engineering Janesick. Scientific Charge-Coupled Devices Jelalian. Laser Radar Systems Johnson. Photodetection and Measurement Kliger. Ultrasensitive Laser Spectroscopy Levenson and Kano. Introduction to Nonlinear Laser Spectroscopy Malacara. Optical Shop Testing Moore, Davis, and Coplan. Building Scientific Apparatus Ohtsu. Frequency Control of Semiconductor Lasers Ohtsu. Highly Coherent Semiconductor Lasers Udd. Fiber Optic Sensors PHYSICS Landau, Lifshitz, and Pitaevskii. Statistical Physics, volume 1 & 2. Landau, Lifshitz, and Pitaevskii. Electrodynamics of Continuous Media Sze. Physics of Semiconductor Devices CODE Barton and Nackman. Scientific and Engineering C++ Maguire. Writing Solid Code TABLES C. W. Allen. Astrophysical Quantities CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics Kaye and Laby. Handbook of Physical and Chemical Constants... Palik and Ghosh. Optical Constants of Solids, volume I Palik. Optical Constants of Solids II MECHANICAL Marks' Standard Handbook for Mechanical Engineers Oberg and McCauley. Machinery's Handbook Timoshenko. Theory of Plates and Shells Yoder. Opto-mechanical Systems Design CIRCUITS AND SIGNAL PROCESSING Black. Modulation Theory Bode. Network Analysis and Feedback Amplifier Design Carson. High Frequency Amplifiers Dostal. Operational Amplifiers Gardner. Phaselock Techniques Gray and Meyer. Analysis and Design of Analog Integrated Circuits Horowitz and Hill. The Art of Electronics Morrison. Grounding and Shielding Techniques Ott. Noise Reduction Techniques In Electronic Systems Pease. Troubleshooting Analog Circuits Skolnik. Radar Handbook Terman. Radio Engineer's Handbook Terman. Radio Engineering The Radio Amateur's Handbook (annual). Old editions (before 1990) had lots of RF construction lore. Van Valkenburg. Reference Data For Engineers Williams. Analog Circuit Design: Art, Science, and Personalities Williams. The Art and Science of Analog Circuit Design Wilmshurst. Signal Recovery From Noise In Electronic Instrumentation Zverev. Handbook of Filter Synthesis van der Ziel. Noise in Solid State Devices and Circuits LASERS Goldwasser. Sam's Laser FAQ Koechner. Solid State Laser Engineering Siegman. Lasers | ||||
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Posted by Joerg on July 18, 2008, 12:54 pm
Please log in for more thread options I'd add: Williams. Electronic Filter Design Handbook. It's "the" filter designer's book. Has all the tables and explanation one needs. Except WDF but those are missing from almost all books. The only one I know that's good would be in German and probably out of print but I guess you don't want that. Filters may not often be needed on optical systems but on my last one I did. Johnson, Graham. High Speed Digital Design, A Handbook of Black Magic. For those that aren't familiar with noise, crosstalk and stuff leaking from digital sections of a circuit. ARRL Handbook. Full to the brim with RF stuff that can be adapted when one needs to cook up fast circuitry. Also very good hints for how to do fast and low cost prototyping. -- Regards, Joerg http://www.analogconsultants.com/ "gmail" domain blocked because of excessive spam. Use another domain or send PM. | ||||
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Posted by Phil Hobbs on July 19, 2008, 1:06 am
Please log in for more thread options Joerg wrote:
> Williams. Electronic Filter Design Handbook.
> It's "the" filter designer's book. Has all the tables and explanation > one needs. Except WDF but those are missing from almost all books. The > only one I know that's good would be in German and probably out of print > but I guess you don't want that. Filters may not often be needed on > optical systems but on my last one I did. I haven't read it, but I ordered it from the library. Thanks. > Johnson, Graham. High Speed Digital Design, A Handbook of Black Magic.
> For those that aren't familiar with noise, crosstalk and stuff leaking > from digital sections of a circuit. I thought about this, and I may still put it in...it's got so much disinformation mixed with the good stuff, though, and I still haven't got over laughing at Johnson for his static electricity demo purporting to show ground currents in circuit boards. Hysterical. > ARRL Handbook.
> Full to the brim with RF stuff that can be adapted when one needs to > cook up fast circuitry. Also very good hints for how to do fast and low > cost prototyping. Concur. It's listed as just "The Radio Amateur's Handbook", with a note to the effect that editions before 1990 had a lot more of that stuff. I got interested in electronics by reading salacious articles about kilowatt PAs in the 1966 edition, which I still have. Thanks again, Phil Hobbs | ||||
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Posted by Joerg on July 19, 2008, 12:01 pm
Please log in for more thread options Phil Hobbs wrote:
> Joerg wrote:
> >> Williams. Electronic Filter Design Handbook.
>> It's "the" filter designer's book. Has all the tables and explanation >> one needs. Except WDF but those are missing from almost all books. The >> only one I know that's good would be in German and probably out of >> print but I guess you don't want that. Filters may not often be needed >> on optical systems but on my last one I did. >
> I haven't read it, but I ordered it from the library. Thanks. > >> Johnson, Graham. High Speed Digital Design, A Handbook of Black Magic.
>> For those that aren't familiar with noise, crosstalk and stuff leaking >> from digital sections of a circuit. >
> I thought about this, and I may still put it in...it's got so much > disinformation mixed with the good stuff, though, and I still haven't > got over laughing at Johnson for his static electricity demo purporting > to show ground currents in circuit boards. Hysterical. > That's the black magic part. With many books the reader has to separate the pixie dust from the real stuff :-) >> ARRL Handbook.
>> Full to the brim with RF stuff that can be adapted when one needs to >> cook up fast circuitry. Also very good hints for how to do fast and >> low cost prototyping. >
> Concur. It's listed as just "The Radio Amateur's Handbook", with a note > to the effect that editions before 1990 had a lot more of that stuff. I > got interested in electronics by reading salacious articles about > kilowatt PAs in the 1966 edition, which I still have. > Yep, if you add it in I'd recommend getting an older copy. Hamfests, EBay, thrift store (if you can find one with books), estate sales (look out for one where there's a humongous antenna near the house). I wish the ARRL would put a few of them from the 70's/80's online. -- Regards, Joerg http://www.analogconsultants.com/ "gmail" domain blocked because of excessive spam. Use another domain or send PM. | ||||
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Posted by Michael A. Terrell on July 19, 2008, 2:24 pm
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Joerg wrote: >
> Yep, if you add it in I'd recommend getting an older copy. Hamfests, > EBay, thrift store (if you can find one with books), estate sales (look > out for one where there's a humongous antenna near the house). > > I wish the ARRL would put a few of them from the 70's/80's online. Even better would be a compilation CD-ROM of all the articles. Some were included for a few years, and some for a decade or more, so they could eliminate the duplication and the advertising. If it was OCRd instead of scanned, it would be 95% text files. They could probably squeeze 20 years worth onto a single CD-ROM. -- http://improve-usenet.org/index.html If you have broadband, your ISP may have a NNTP news server included in your account: http://www.usenettools.net/ISP.htm Sporadic E is the Earth's aluminum foil beanie for the 'global warming' sheep. | ||||
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> and I'm putting in a bibliography of a hundred or so good books for
> advanced students as well as pros from other fields, which is attached
> below.
>
> Two requests:
> (1) Please have a squint at the list, and let me know what you think.
>
> (2) Please tell me the best books you know of on circuits, optics,
> instruments, and a line or two about why they're so good.
>