1st Edition

Handbook of Optical Engineering

By Daniel Malacara Copyright 2001
    998 Pages
    by CRC Press

    998 Pages
    by CRC Press

    This handbook explains principles, processes, methods, and procedures of optical engineering in a concise and practical way. It emphasizes fundamental approaches and provides useful formulas and step-by-step worked-out examples to demonstrate applications and clarify calculation methods. The book covers refractive, reflective, and diffractive optical components; lens optical devices; modern fringe pattern analysis; optical metrology; Fourier optics and optical image processing; electro-optical and acousto-optical devices; spatial and spectral filters; optical fibers and accessories; optical fabrication; and more. It includes over 2,000 tables, flow charts, graphs, schematics, drawings, photographs, and mathematical expressions.

    Basic ray optics; basic wave optics; basic photon optics; refractive optical components; reflective optical components; diffractive optical components; some lens optical devices; telescopes; spectrometers; wavefront slope measurements in optical testing; basic interferometers; modern fringe pattern analysis in interferometry; optical metrology: point methods; optical metrology of diffuse objects: full-field methods; holography; Fourier optics and optical image processing; electro-optical and acousto-optical devices; radiometry, incoherent light sources; lasers; spatial and spectral filters; optical fibers and accessories; isotropic amorphous optical materials; anisotropic materials; light-sensitive material; optical fabrication.

    Biography

    Malacara, Daniel