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.
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
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.
