Optical Engineering Fundamentals (SPIE Tutorial Texts in Optical Engineering Vol. TT30) - Softcover

Walker, Bruce H.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0819427640 ISBN 13: 9780819427649

Publisher: SPIE Optical Engineering Press, 1998

Synopsis

Comprehensive introduction to the science of optics and optical engineering, and the history, people, and events shaping the discipline. Examines light waves and light rays, reflection and refraction, basic optical components and instruments, dispersion, diffraction, thin-lens theory, new design software, and the human visual system.

About this title

About the Author:

Bruce H. Walker is an independent consultant with more than 40 years of experience in optical engineering and lens design. He received four patents for unusual lens design while working for General Electric, and for 20 years was with the Electro-Optical Division of Kollmorgen Corp. He also is a long-time contributor to the Photonics Handbook and Dictionary.

Review:

"This is one of the most practical and immediately useful introductory texts that I have read." -- Optics & Photonics News, May 1998

About this edition

• Publisher: SPIE Optical Engineering Press
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0819427640
• ISBN 13: 9780819427649
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 341