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.
Like Malacara himself, many of the contributors are from the Centro de Investigaciones en Optica in LTon, Mexico; most of the others are from the US, and a couple from Europe. They compile relevant data to allow optical engineers to meet their day-to-day challenges, focusing on engineering and technology rather than on theoretical science. They consider such topics as basic optics, reflective optical components, some lens optical devices, telescopes. spectrometers, basic interferometers, full-field methods for the optical metrology of diffuse objects, Fourier optics and image processing, radiometry, lasers, and optical fabrication. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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 optic
