Handbook of Optical Engineering – Two Volume Set (Second Edition)

Description

This handbook explains principles, processes, methods, and procedures of optical engineering in a concise and practical way. The second edition contains new chapters on paraxial ray tracing, aberrations and optical design, polarization and polarizing optical devices, microscopes, biomedical instrumentation, and optical methods in metrology.

The new edition also includes chapters on active and adaptive optics, non-diffractive Bessel and airy beams, color and colorimetry, physiological optics and eye aberrations, and photonic materials, nanophotonics, and metamaterials.

Table of Contents

1. VOLUME 1: Fundamentals and Basic Optical Instruments
   1. Basic Geometrical Optics
   2. Basic Wave Optics
   3. Basic Photon and Quantum Optics
   4. Paraxial Ray Tracing
   5. Aberrations and Optical Design
   6. Prisms and Refractive Optical Components
   7. Reflective Optical Components
   8. Diffractive Optical Components
   9. Polarization and Polarizing Optical Devices
   10. Some Lens Optical Instruments
   11. Telescopes. Microscopes
   12. Spectrometers.
2. VOLUME 2: Advanced Optical Instruments and Techniques
   1. Biomedical Instrumentation
   2. Wavefront Slope Measurements in Optical Testing
   3. Basic Interferometers
   4. Modern Fringe Pattern Analysis in Interferometry
   5. Optical Methods in Metrology: Point Methods
   6. Optical Metrology of Diffuse Objects: Full-Field Methods
   7. Active and Adaptive Optics
   8. Holography
   9. Fourier Optics and Image Processing
   10. Non-Diffractive Bessel and Airy Beams
   11. Electro-Optical and Acousto-Optical Devices
   12. Radiometry. Color and Colorimetry
   13. The Human Eye and Its Aberrations
   14. Light Sources
   15. Lasers and Its Applications
   16. Thin Films and Spectral Filters
   17. Optical Fibers and Accessories
   18. Isotropic Amorphous Optical Materials
   19. Anistropic Materials
   20. Photonic Materials, Nanophotonics and Metamaterials
   21. Light-Sensitive Materials: Photoresist and Photo Polymers
   22. Optical Fabrication

Editor Description

Daniel Malacara, PhD, is a Professor at the Centro de Investigaciones en Optica, Leon, Gto, Mexico. A designer and constructor of optical instruments, including telescopes, he is well known for his books, including Optical Shop Testing, which has been translated into several languages. Dr. Malacara is a Fellow of the Optical Society of America and of SPIE, the International Society of Optical Engineering.