Progress in Optics
Elsevier (Publisher)
Published on 21. May 2010
341 pages
978-0-08-088764-7 (ISBN)
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Progress in Optics
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- Front Cover
- Progress in Optics, Volume I
- Copyright Page
- CONTENTS
- PREFACE
- CHAPTER I. THE MODERN DEVELOPMENT OF HAMILTONIAN OPTICS
- 1. INTRODUCTION
- 2. THE CHARACTERISTIC FUNCTIONS
- 3. THE DEPENDENCE OF THE ABERRATIONS UPON OBJECT AND STOP POSITION
- 4. CONCLUSION
- REFERENCES
- CHAPTER II. WAVE OPTICS AND GEOMETRICAL OPTICS IN OPTICAL DESIGN
- 1. INTRODUCTION
- 2. WAVE SURFACE AND CHARACTERISTIC FUNCTION (EIKONAL)
- 3. INTENSITY DISTRIBUTION OF LIGHT IN AN OPTICAL IMAGE
- 4. THE RESPONSE FUNCTION
- 5. IMAGE EVALUATION BY SPOT DIAGRAM
- REFERENCES
- CHAPTER III. THE INTENSITY DISTRIBUTION AND TOTAL ILLUMINATION OF ABERRATION-FREE DIFFRACTION IMAGES
- 1. INTRODUCTION
- 2. KIRCHHOFF DIFFRACTION THEORY
- 3. SPECIAL PROBLEMS
- 4. VECTOR DIFFRACTION THEORIES
- REFERENCES
- CHAPTER IV. LIGHT AND INFORMATION
- 1. INTRODUCTION
- 2. GEOMETRICAL OPTICS
- 3. CLASSICAL WAVE OPTICS
- 4. THE PARADOX OF "OBSERVATION WITHOUT ILLUMINATION''
- 5. A FURTHER PARADOX: "A PERPETUUM MOBILE OF THE SECOND KIND"
- 6. THE METRICAL INFORMATION IN LIGHT BEAMS
- 7. CONCLUSION
- APPENDICES
- REFERENCES
- CHAPTER V. ON BASIC ANALOGIES AND PRINCIPAL DIFFERENCES BETWEEN OPTICAL AND ELECTRONIC INFORMATION
- 1. INTRODUCTION
- 2. ANALOGIES BETWEEN TRANSMISSION LINES IN ELECTRONICS AND LAYER SYSTEMS IN OPTICS
- 3. ANALOGIES BETWEEN OPTICAL AND HERTZIAN WAVES
- 4. THE PSEUDOANALOGY BETWEEN TIME AND COORDINATE, OR FREQUENCY AND DIRECTION VARIABLE
- REFERENCES
- CHAPTER VI. INTERFERENCE COLOR
- 1. INTRODUCTION. EVALUATION OF COLOR
- 2. INTERFERENCE COLOR OF MONOLAYER
- 3. INTERFERENCE COLOR OF MULTILAYER
- 4. COLOR OF A THIN FILM ON METALLIC SURFACE
- 5. INTERFERENCE COLOR OF CHROMATIC POLARIZATION
- 6. INTERFERENCE COLOR IN OTHER PHENOMENA
- NEW TABLES OF THE INTERFERENCE COLOR
- REFERENCES
- CHAPTER VII. DYNAMIC CHARACTERISTICS OF VISUAL PROCESSES
- 1. INTRODUCTION
- 2. DYNAMIC THEORIES OF VISUAL ACUITY
- 3. INVOLUNTARY MOVEMENTS OF THE EYE
- 4. VISION WITH STABILIZED RETINAL IMAGES
- 5. DISCUSSION ON THE POSSIBLE ROLE OF INVOLUNTARY EYE MOVEMENTS
- 6. DYNAMIC CHARACTERISTICS OF BINOCULAR VISION
- 7. SOME VISUAL EFFECTS PRODUCED BY INTERMITTENT ILLUMINATION
- 8. THE PERCEPTION OF CONTOURS
- REFERENCES
- CHAPTER VIII. MODERN ALIGNMENT DEVICES
- 1. INTRODUCTION
- 2. CUSTOMARY METHODS EMPLOYING COLLIMATORS AND TELESCOPES
- 3. INTERFERENCE ARRANGEMENTS
- 4. DISCUSSION OF THE PRECISION
- 5. THE USE OF REFLECTING SPHERES AND OF SPHERES WITH A CONCENTRIC CAP
- 6. SPHERE WITHOUT REFLECTION, PRODUCING A LUMINOUS "LINE"
- 7. SINGLE LENS AS ALIGNMENT COLLIMATOR
- 8. THE USE OF THE RAINBOW
- 9. ALIGNMENT OF SURFACES
- 10. THE AXICON
- 11. ADDITIONAL EXAMPLES
- 12. SOME TECHNICAL REMARKS ON THE MANUFACTURE OF ZONE PLATES
- SUPPLEMENTARY NOTE
- REFERENCES
- AUTHOR INDEX
- SUBJECT INDEX
