Handbook of Optical Engineering, Second Edition, Two Volume Set (Optical Science and Engineering)

ISBN 10: 149872079X / ISBN 13: 9781498720793

Published by Taylor & Francis Group, 2017

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pp. 1448.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Handbook of Optical Engineering, Second Edition, Two Volume Set (Optical Science and Engineering)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group
• Publication Date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 149872079X
• ISBN 13: 9781498720793
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 2nd Edition
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

This handbook explains principles, processes, methods, and procedures of optical engineering in a concise and practical way. The second edition contains new chapters on paraxial ray tracing, aberrations and optical design, polarization and polarizing optical devices, microscopes, biomedical instrumentation, and optical methods in metrology. The new edition also includes chapters on active and adaptive optics, non-diffractive Bessel and airy beams, color and colorimetry, physiological optics and eye aberrations, and photonic materials, nanophotonics, and metamaterials.

About the Author

Daniel Malacara, PhD, is a Professor at the Centro de Investigaciones en Optica, Leon, Gto, Mexico. A designer and constructor of optical instruments, including telescopes, he is well known for his books, including Optical Shop Testing, which has been translated into several languages. Dr. Malacara is a Fellow of the Optical Society of America and of SPIE, the International Society of Optical Engineering.