Robert Shannon and Roland Shack: Legends in Applied Optics (SPIE Press Monograph Vol. PM148)

This tribute volume honors two icons in the world of applied optics: Robert (Bob) Shannon and Roland Shack. Based on an August 2004 tribute conference held at the SPIE Optical Science and Technology meeting, the volume contains both technical and nontechnical papers by the honorees' colleagues and former students at the University of Arizona's Optical Sciences Center (OSC). The papers divulge the origin and development of such technologies as the Multiple Mirror Telescope (MMT) and the Shack-Hartmann Wavefront Sensor, as well as shed light on the formative years of the OSC. In addition to the original material, the volume contains a substantial collection of previously published journal papers authored by Bob Shannon, Roland Shack, or their former students.

Contents

- Preface

- Biography of R. R. Shannon

- Biography of R. V. Shack

- List of Contributors

- Section I: Tribute Conference Proceedings

- Section II: Selected Contributions to the Field of Applied Optics

- Part A: Optical Design and Analysis

- Part B: Image Evaluation

- Part C: Applications of the y-y Diagram

- Part D: Optical Testing

- Part E: Optical Fabrication

- Part F: Phased Telescope Arrays

- Part G: Aberration Theory

- Part H: Propagation Effects in the Atmosphere

- Part I: Diffraction/Surface Scatter Phenomena

- Section III: Anecdotes and Accolades