Description
This handbook is a concise and practical guide to optical engineering. It covers key topics such as 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. The book includes over 2,000 tables, flow charts, graphs, schematics, drawings, photographs, and mathematical expressions.
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.