Handbook of optical engineering

 Content: 1. Basic Ray Optics / Orestes Stavroudis 1 --
 1.2 Gaussian Optics a la Maxwell 2 --
 1.3 Eikonal Function and Its Antecedents 8 --
 1.4 Ray Tracing and Its Generalization 15 --
 1.5 Paraxial Approximation and Its Uses 22 --
 1.6 Huygens' Principle and Developments 27 --
 1.7 Aberrations, Seidel and Otherwise 30 --
 2. Basic Wave Optics / Glenn D. Boreman 39 --
 2.1 Diffraction 39 --
 2.2 Interference 49 --
 2.3 Coherence 66 --
 2.4 Polarization 71 --
 3. Basic Photon Optics / Sofia E. Acosta-Ortiz 75 --
 3.1 Nature of Quantum Optics 75 --
 3.2 Nonlinear Optics 80 --
 3.3 Multiphoton Processes 91 --
 3.4 Phase Conjugate Optics 99 --
 3.5 Ultrashort Optical Pulses 105 --
 4. Prisms and Refractive Optical Components / Daniel Malacara, Duncan T. Moore 125 --
 4.1 Prisms 125 --
 4.2 Lenses 138 --
 4.3 Gradient Index Optics 144 --
 5. Reflective Optical Components / Daniel Malacara 147 --
 5.1 Mirrors 147 --
 5.2 Some Mirror Systems 152 --
 5.3 Reflective Coatings 153 --
 5.4 Beamsplitters 155 --
 6. Diffractive Optical Components / Cristina Solano 157 --
 6.2 Design Issues 160 --
 6.3 Fabrication Techniques 166 --
 6.4 Dynamic Diffractive Elements 176 --
 6.5 Applications 178 --
 7. Some Lens Optical Devices / Daniel Malacara, Jr. 191 --
 7.2 Principal and Meridional Rays 191 --
 7.3 Magnifiers 193 --
 7.4 Ophthalmic Lenses 194 --
 7.5 Achromatic Doublets and Collimators 197 --
 7.6 Afocal Systems 198 --
 7.7 Relay Systems and Periscopes 200 --
 7.8 Indirect Ophthalmoscopes and Fundus Camera 201 --
 7.9 Projectors 203 --
 8. Telescopes / Gonzalo Paez, Marija Strojnik 207 --
 8.1 Traditional Transmissive Telescopes 207 --
 8.2 Reflecting Telescopes 220 --
 8.3 Filled-Aperture Telescope 247 --
 8.4 Diluted-Aperture Telescope 252 --
 9. Spectrometers / William Wolfe 263 --
 9.2 Spectrometer Descriptions 264 --
 9.3 Filter Spectrometers 266 --
 9.4 Prism Spectrometers 272 --
 9.5 Grating Spectrometers 276 --
 9.6 Fourier-Transform Spectrometer 280 --
 9.7 Fabry-Perot Spectrometers 288 --
 9.8 Laser Spectrometers 290 --
 9.9 Unusual Spectrometers 291 --
 9.10 Acousto-Optical Filters 295 --
 9.11 Spectrometer Configurations 298 --
 9.12 Comparisons 302 --
 10. Wavefront Slope Measurements in Optical Testing / Alejandro Cornejo-Rodriguez, Alberto Cordero-Davila 311 --
 10.1 Introduction and Historical Review 311 --
 10.2 Knife Test 312 --
 10.3 Wire Test 316 --
 10.4 Ronchi Test 318 --
 10.5 Hartmann Test 325 --
 10.6 Null Tests and the Ronchi and Hartmann Tests 328 --
 10.7 Gradient Tests 328 --
 11. Basic Interferometers / Daniel Malacara 339 --
 11.2 Coherence of Light Sources for Interferometers 340 --
 11.3 Young's Double Slit 341 --
 11.4 Michelson Interferometer 346 --
 11.5 Fizeau Interferometer 349 --
 11.6 Newton Interferometer 351 --
 11.7 Twyman--Green Interferometer 352 --
 11.8 Common Path Interferometers 356 --
 11.9 Lateral Shearing Interferometers 358 --
 11.10 Talbot Interferometer and Moire Deflectometry 361 --
 11.11 Foucault Test and Schlieren Techniques 364 --
 11.12 Multiple Reflection Interferometers 364 --
 11.13 Cyclic Interferometers 368 --
 11.14 Sagnac Interferometer 369 --
 12. Modern Fringe Pattern Analysis in Interferometry / Manuel Servin, Malgorzata Kujawinska 373 --
 12.2 Fringe Pattern 373 --
 12.3 Smoothing Techniques 377 --
 12.4 Temporal Phase-Measuring Methods 385 --
 12.5 Spatial Phase-Measuring Methods 395 --
 12.6 Phase Unwrapping 404 --
 12.7 Extended Range Fringe Pattern Analysis 408 --
 12.8 Applicability of Fringe Analysis Methods 419 --
 13. Optical Methods in Metrology: Point Methods / H. Zacarias Malacara, Ramon Rodriguez-Vera 427 --
 13.2 Linear Distance Measurements 428 --
 13.3 Angular Measurements 446 --
 13.4 Velocity and Vibration Measurement 458 --
 14. Optical Metrology of Diffuseo Objects: Full-Field Methods / Malgorzata Kujawinska, Daniel Malacara 493 --
 14.2 Fringe Projection 493 --
 14.3 Holographic Interferometry 497 --
 14.4 Electronic Speckle Pattern Interferometry 501 --
 14.5 Electronic Speckle Pattern Shearing Interferometry 511 --
 14.6 In-Plane Grid and Moire Methods 514 --
 15. Holography / Chandra S. Vikram 523 --
 15.2 Types of Holograms 524 --
 15.3 Applications 534 --
 15.4 Other Developments 543 --
 16. Fourier Optics and Image Processing / Francis T.S. Yu 551 --
 16.1 Fourier Optics and Image Processing 551 --
 16.2 Image Processing 564 --
 16.3 Neural Networks 571 --
 16.4 Wavelet Transform Processing 578 --
 16.5 Computing with Optics 585 --
 17. Electro-Optical and Acousto-Optical Devices / Mohammad A. Karim 595 --
 17.2 Photoconductors 595 --
 17.3 Photodiodes 597 --
 17.4 Charge-Coupled Imagers 609 --
 17.5 CRT and Imaging Tubes 617 --
 17.6 Electro-Optic Modulation 622 --
 17.7 Electro-Optic Devices 624 --
 17.8 Acousto-Optic Modulation and Devices 643 --
 18. Radiometry / Marija Strojnik, Gonzalo Paez 649 --
 18.1 Introductory Concepts 649 --
 18.2 Standard Terminology for Radiometric Quantities 651 --
 18.3 Photon-Based Radiometric Quantities 656 --
 18.4 Photometric Quantities and Units 658 --
 18.5 Radiative Power Transfer in a Three-Dimensional Space 663 --
 18.6 Lambert's Law 682 --
 18.7 Power Transfer Across a Boundary 689 --
 19. Incoherent Light Sources / H. Zacarias Malacara 701 --
 19.2 Tungsten Filament Sources 702 --
 19.3 Arc Sources 706 --
 19.4 Discharge Lamps 708 --
 19.5 Fluorescent Lamps 711 --
 19.6 Light-Emitting Diodes 714 --
 20. Lasers / Vicente Aboites 719 --
 20.1 Types of Lasers, Main Operation Regimes, and Examples 719 --
 20.2 Laser Medium 722 --
 20.3 Resonators and Laser Beams 727 --
 20.4 Gaussian Beams 733 --
 20.5 Laser Applications and Instruments 735 --
 21. Spatial and Spectral Filters / Angus Macleod 743 --
 21.2 Some Fundamental Ideas 743 --
 21.3 Spatial and Spectral Filtering 747 --
 21.4 Spatial Filters 750 --
 21.5 Spectral Filters 757 --
 22. Optical Fibers and Accessories / A.N. Starodumov 775 --
 22.2 Optical Fibers 776 --
 22.3 Special Fibers 786 --
 22.4 Fiber-Optic Components 798 --
 23. Isotropic Amorphous Optical Materials / Luis Efrain Regalado, Daniel Malacara 827 --
 23.2 Optical Glasses 834 --
 23.3 Vitreous Silica 836 --
 23.4 Mirror Materials 839 --
 23.5 Optical Plastics 842 --
 23.6 Infrared and Ultraviolet Materials 843 --
 23.7 Optical Coatings and Other Amorphous Materials 844 --
 24. Anistropic Materials / Dennis H. Goldstein 847 --
 24.2 Review of Concepts from Electromagnetism 848 --
 24.3 Crystalline Materials and Their Properties 850 --
 24.4 Crystals 851 --
 24.5 Application of Electric Fields: Induced Birefringence and Polarization Modulation 863 --
 24.6 Magneto Optics 871 --
 24.7 Liquid Crystals 872 --
 24.8 Modulation of Light 875 --
 25. Light-Sensitive Materials: Silver Halide Emulsions, Photoresist and Photopolymers / Sergio Calixto, Daniel J. Lougnot 879 --
 25.2 Commercial Silver Halide Emulsions 880 --
 25.3 Silver Halide Emulsions for Holography 890 --
 25.4 Photoresist 891 --
 25.5 Photopolymer Holographic Recording Materials 893 --
 26. Optical Fabrication / David Anderson, Jim Burge 915 --
 26.2 Traditional Methods of Optical Fabrication 918 --
 26.3 Fabrication of Aspheres and Nontraditional Manufacturing Methods 939 --
 26.4 Fabrication Issues for the Optical Designer 947.
 Abstract:             
              Explains principles, processes, methods, and procedures of optical engineering. This handbook emphasizes fundamental approaches and provides useful formulas and step-by-step worked-out examples to demonstrate applications and clarify calculation methods. It covers refractive, reflective, and diffractive optical components.                 Read more...