Description
Taylor and Francis Handbook Of Optical Engineering 2Nd Edition 2 Vol Set by MALACARA-HERNANDEZ D
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.
Features
Explains principles, processes, methods, and procedures of optical engineering in a concise and practical way
Provides useful formulas and step-by-step worked-out examples to demonstrate applications and clarify calculation methods
Includes over 2,000 tables, flow charts, graphs, schematics, drawings, photographs, and mathematical expressions
Contains 11 new chapters and 450+ new pages
Offers two volumes: (1) Fundamentals and Basic Optical Instruments and (2) Advanced Optical Instruments and Techniques
Table of Contents
VOLUME 1: Fundamentals and Basic Optical Instruments. Basic Geometrical Optics. Basic Wave Optics. Basic Photon and Quantum Optics. Paraxial Ray Tracing. Aberrations and Optical Design. Prisms and Refractive Optical Components. Reflective Optical Components. Diffractive Optical Components. Polarization and Polarizing Optical Devices. Some Lens Optical Instruments. Telescopes. Microscopes. Spectrometers. VOLUME 2: Advanced Optical Instruments and Techniques. Biomedical Instrumentation. Wavefront Slope Measurements in Optical Testing. Basic Interferometers. Modern Fringe Pattern Analysis in Interferometry. Optical Methods in Metrology: Point Methods. Optical Metrology of Diffuse Objects: Full-Field Methods. Active and Adaptive Optics. Holography. Fourier Optics and Image Processing. Non-Diffractive Bessel and Airy Beams. Electro-Optical and Acousto-Optical Devices. Radiometry. Color and Colorimetry. The Human Eye and Its Aberrations. Light Sources. Lasers and Its Applications. Thin Films and Spectral Filters. Optical Fibers and Accessories. Isotropic Amorphous Optical Materials. Anistropic Materials. Photonic Materials, Nanophotonics and Metamaterials. Light-Sensitive Materials: Photoresist and Photo Polymers. Optical Fabrication.