Handbook of Optical Engineering

Daniel Malacara9780824799601, 0-8247-9960-7

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.

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Table of contents :
Preface……Page 8
Contents……Page 10
Contributors……Page 18
Basic Ray Optics……Page 20
Basic Wave Optics……Page 58
Basic Photon Optics……Page 94
Prisms and Refractive Optical Components……Page 144
Reflective Optical Components……Page 166
Diffractive Optical Components……Page 176
Some Lens Optical Devices……Page 210
Telescopes……Page 226
Spectrometers……Page 282
Wavefront Slope Measurements in Optical Testing……Page 330
Basic Interferometers……Page 358
Modern Fringe Pattern Analysis in Interferometry……Page 392
Optical Methods in Metrology: Point Methods……Page 446
Optical Metrology of Diffuse Objects: Full-Field Methods……Page 512
Holography……Page 542
Fourier Optics and Image Processing……Page 570
Electro-Optical and Acousto-Optical Devices……Page 614
Radiometry……Page 668
Incoherent Light Sources……Page 720
Lasers……Page 738
Spatial and Spectral Filters……Page 762
Optical Fibers and Accessories……Page 794
Isotropic Amorphous Optical Materials……Page 846
Anisotropic Materials……Page 866
Light-Sensitive Materials: Silver Halide Emulsions, Photoresist and Photopolymers……Page 898
Optical Fabrication……Page 934
Index……Page 978