Modern Optical Engineering
The Design of Optical Systems
3rd Edition
Published on 26. July 2000
Book
Hardback
617 pages
978-0-07-136360-0 (ISBN)
Description
The optical engineering field's most widely used, benchmark book/CD, is now updated to reflect an entire decade's worth of optical and lens advances. There is a new chapter on lens design, and sections on new types of optics: diffractive, holographic, binary, etc.
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Edition
3rd Revised edition
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Publishing group
McGraw-Hill Education - Europe
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
Revised edition
Illustrations
Ill.
Dimensions
Height: 236 mm
Width: 161 mm
Thickness: 45 mm
Weight
1071 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-07-136360-0 (9780071363600)
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Previous edition
Book
09/1990
2nd Edition
McGraw-Hill Professional
€86.65
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Person
Warren J. Smith, chief scientist at Kaiser Electro-Optics and an independent consultant, is one of the most widely known writers and educators in the field of optical design. He is the author of Modern Optical Engineering, Modern Lens Design, and Practical Optical System Layout.
Content
Chapter 1: General Principles. Chapter 2: Image Formation (First-Order Optics). Chapter 3: Aberrations. Chapter 4: Prisms and Mirrors. Chapter 5: The Eye. Chapter 6: Stops and Apertures. Chapter 7: Optical Materials and Interference Coatings. Chapter 8: Radiometry and Photometry. Chapter 9: Basic Optical Devices. Chapter 10: Optical Computation. Chapter 11: Image Evaluation. Chapter 12: The Design of Optical Systems: General. Chapter 13: The Design of Optical Systems: Particular. Chapter 14: Some Forty Four More Lens Designs. Chapter 15: Optics in Practice Index