DescriptionThis 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 ContentsVOLUME 1: Fundamentals and Basic Optical InstrumentsBasic Geometrical OpticsBasic Wave OpticsBasic Photon and Quantum OpticsParaxial Ray TracingAberrations and Optical DesignPrisms and Refractive Optical ComponentsReflective Optical ComponentsDiffractive Optical ComponentsPolarization and Polarizing Optical DevicesSome Lens Optical InstrumentsTelescopes. MicroscopesSpectrometers.VOLUME 2: Advanced Optical Instruments and TechniquesBiomedical InstrumentationWavefront Slope Measurements in Optical TestingBasic InterferometersModern Fringe Pattern Analysis in InterferometryOptical Methods in Metrology: Point MethodsOptical Metrology of Diffuse Objects: Full-Field MethodsActive and Adaptive OpticsHolographyFourier Optics and Image ProcessingNon-Diffractive Bessel and Airy BeamsElectro-Optical and Acousto-Optical DevicesRadiometry. Color and ColorimetryThe Human Eye and Its AberrationsLight SourcesLasers and Its ApplicationsThin Films and Spectral FiltersOptical Fibers and AccessoriesIsotropic Amorphous Optical MaterialsAnistropic MaterialsPhotonic Materials, Nanophotonics and MetamaterialsLight-Sensitive Materials: Photoresist and Photo PolymersOptical FabricationEditor DescriptionDaniel 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.
