Bibliothèque de L'IMIST/CNRST

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Basic Ray Optics / Orestes Stavroudis 1 -- 1.2 Gaussian Optics a la Maxwell 2 -- 1.3 Eikonal Function and Its Antecedents 8 -- 1.4 Ray Tracing and Its Generalization 15 -- 1.5 Paraxial Approximation and Its Uses 22 -- 1.6 Huygens' Principle and Developments 27 -- 1.7 Aberrations, Seidel and Otherwise 30 -- 2. Basic Wave Optics / Glenn D. Boreman 39 -- 2.1 Diffraction 39 -- 2.2 Interference 49 -- 2.3 Coherence 66 -- 2.4 Polarization 71 -- 3. Basic Photon Optics / Sofia E. Acosta-Ortiz 75 -- 3.1 Nature of Quantum Optics 75 -- 3.2 Nonlinear Optics 80 -- 3.3 Multiphoton Processes 91 -- 3.4 Phase Conjugate Optics 99 -- 3.5 Ultrashort Optical Pulses 105 -- 4. Prisms and Refractive Optical Components / Daniel Malacara, Duncan T. Moore 125 -- 4.1 Prisms 125 -- 4.2 Lenses 138 -- 4.3 Gradient Index Optics 144 -- 5. Reflective Optical Components / Daniel Malacara 147 -- 5.1 Mirrors 147 -- 5.2 Some Mirror Systems 152 -- 5.3 Reflective Coatings 153 -- 5.4 Beamsplitters 155 -- 6. Diffractive Optical Components / Cristina Solano 157 -- 6.2 Design Issues 160 -- 6.3 Fabrication Techniques 166 -- 6.4 Dynamic Diffractive Elements 176 -- 6.5 Applications 178 -- 7. Some Lens Optical Devices / Daniel Malacara, Jr. 191 -- 7.2 Principal and Meridional Rays 191 -- 7.3 Magnifiers 193 -- 7.4 Ophthalmic Lenses 194 -- 7.5 Achromatic Doublets and Collimators 197 -- 7.6 Afocal Systems 198 -- 7.7 Relay Systems and Periscopes 200 -- 7.8 Indirect Ophthalmoscopes and Fundus Camera 201 -- 7.9 Projectors 203 -- 8. Telescopes / Gonzalo Paez, Marija Strojnik 207 -- 8.1 Traditional Transmissive Telescopes 207 -- 8.2 Reflecting Telescopes 220 -- 8.3 Filled-Aperture Telescope 247 -- 8.4 Diluted-Aperture Telescope 252 -- 9. Spectrometers / William Wolfe 263 -- 9.2 Spectrometer Descriptions 264 -- 9.3 Filter Spectrometers 266 -- 9.4 Prism Spectrometers 272 -- 9.5 Grating Spectrometers 276 -- 9.6 Fourier-Transform Spectrometer 280 -- 9.7 Fabry-Perot Spectrometers 288 -- 9.8 Laser Spectrometers 290 -- 9.9 Unusual Spectrometers 291 -- 9.10 Acousto-Optical Filters 295 -- 9.11 Spectrometer Configurations 298 -- 9.12 Comparisons 302 -- 10. Wavefront Slope Measurements in Optical Testing / Alejandro Cornejo-Rodriguez, Alberto Cordero-Davila 311 -- 10.1 Introduction and Historical Review 311 -- 10.2 Knife Test 312 -- 10.3 Wire Test 316 -- 10.4 Ronchi Test 318 -- 10.5 Hartmann Test 325 -- 10.6 Null Tests and the Ronchi and Hartmann Tests 328 -- 10.7 Gradient Tests 328 -- 11. Basic Interferometers / Daniel Malacara 339 -- 11.2 Coherence of Light Sources for Interferometers 340 -- 11.3 Young's Double Slit 341 -- 11.4 Michelson Interferometer 346 -- 11.5 Fizeau Interferometer 349 -- 11.6 Newton Interferometer 351 -- 11.7 Twyman--Green Interferometer 352 -- 11.8 Common Path Interferometers 356 -- 11.9 Lateral Shearing Interferometers 358 -- 11.10 Talbot Interferometer and Moire Deflectometry 361 -- 11.11 Foucault Test and Schlieren Techniques 364 -- 11.12 Multiple Reflection Interferometers 364 -- 11.13 Cyclic Interferometers 368 -- 11.14 Sagnac Interferometer 369 -- 12. Modern Fringe Pattern Analysis in Interferometry / Manuel Servin, Malgorzata Kujawinska 373 -- 12.2 Fringe Pattern 373 -- 12.3 Smoothing Techniques 377 -- 12.4 Temporal Phase-Measuring Methods 385 -- 12.5 Spatial Phase-Measuring Methods 395 -- 12.6 Phase Unwrapping 404 -- 12.7 Extended Range Fringe Pattern Analysis 408 -- 12.8 Applicability of Fringe Analysis Methods 419 -- 13. Optical Methods in Metrology: Point Methods / H. Zacarias Malacara, Ramon Rodriguez-Vera 427 -- 13.2 Linear Distance Measurements 428 -- 13.3 Angular Measurements 446 -- 13.4 Velocity and Vibration Measurement 458 -- 14. Optical Metrology of Diffuseo Objects: Full-Field Methods / Malgorzata Kujawinska, Daniel Malacara 493 -- 14.2 Fringe Projection 493 -- 14.3 Holographic Interferometry 497 -- 14.4 Electronic Speckle Pattern Interferometry 501 -- 14.5 Electronic Speckle Pattern Shearing Interferometry 511 -- 14.6 In-Plane Grid and Moire Methods 514 -- 15. Holography / Chandra S. Vikram 523 -- 15.2 Types of Holograms 524 -- 15.3 Applications 534 -- 15.4 Other Developments 543 -- 16. Fourier Optics and Image Processing / Francis T.S. Yu 551 -- 16.1 Fourier Optics and Image Processing 551 -- 16.2 Image Processing 564 -- 16.3 Neural Networks 571 -- 16.4 Wavelet Transform Processing 578 -- 16.5 Computing with Optics 585 -- 17. Electro-Optical and Acousto-Optical Devices / Mohammad A. Karim 595 -- 17.2 Photoconductors 595 -- 17.3 Photodiodes 597 -- 17.4 Charge-Coupled Imagers 609 -- 17.5 CRT and Imaging Tubes 617 -- 17.6 Electro-Optic Modulation 622 -- 17.7 Electro-Optic Devices 624 -- 17.8 Acousto-Optic Modulation and Devices 643 -- 18. Radiometry / Marija Strojnik, Gonzalo Paez 649 -- 18.1 Introductory Concepts 649 -- 18.2 Standard Terminology for Radiometric Quantities 651 -- 18.3 Photon-Based Radiometric Quantities 656 -- 18.4 Photometric Quantities and Units 658 -- 18.5 Radiative Power Transfer in a Three-Dimensional Space 663 -- 18.6 Lambert's Law 682 -- 18.7 Power Transfer Across a Boundary 689 -- 19. Incoherent Light Sources / H. Zacarias Malacara 701 -- 19.2 Tungsten Filament Sources 702 -- 19.3 Arc Sources 706 -- 19.4 Discharge Lamps 708 -- 19.5 Fluorescent Lamps 711 -- 19.6 Light-Emitting Diodes 714 -- 20. Lasers / Vicente Aboites 719 -- 20.1 Types of Lasers, Main Operation Regimes, and Examples 719 -- 20.2 Laser Medium 722 -- 20.3 Resonators and Laser Beams 727 -- 20.4 Gaussian Beams 733 -- 20.5 Laser Applications and Instruments 735 -- 21. Spatial and Spectral Filters / Angus Macleod 743 -- 21.2 Some Fundamental Ideas 743 -- 21.3 Spatial and Spectral Filtering 747 -- 21.4 Spatial Filters 750 -- 21.5 Spectral Filters 757 -- 22. Optical Fibers and Accessories / A.N. Starodumov 775 -- 22.2 Optical Fibers 776 -- 22.3 Special Fibers 786 -- 22.4 Fiber-Optic Components 798 -- 23. Isotropic Amorphous Optical Materials / Luis Efrain Regalado, Daniel Malacara 827 -- 23.2 Optical Glasses 834 -- 23.3 Vitreous Silica 836 -- 23.4 Mirror Materials 839 -- 23.5 Optical Plastics 842 -- 23.6 Infrared and Ultraviolet Materials 843 -- 23.7 Optical Coatings and Other Amorphous Materials 844 -- 24. Anistropic Materials / Dennis H. Goldstein 847 -- 24.2 Review of Concepts from Electromagnetism 848 -- 24.3 Crystalline Materials and Their Properties 850 -- 24.4 Crystals 851 -- 24.5 Application of Electric Fields: Induced Birefringence and Polarization Modulation 863 -- 24.6 Magneto Optics 871 -- 24.7 Liquid Crystals 872 -- 24.8 Modulation of Light 875 -- 25. Light-Sensitive Materials: Silver Halide Emulsions, Photoresist and Photopolymers / Sergio Calixto, Daniel J. Lougnot 879 -- 25.2 Commercial Silver Halide Emulsions 880 -- 25.3 Silver Halide Emulsions for Holography 890 -- 25.4 Photoresist 891 -- 25.5 Photopolymer Holographic Recording Materials 893 -- 26. Optical Fabrication / David Anderson, Jim Burge 915 -- 26.2 Traditional Methods of Optical Fabrication 918 -- 26.3 Fabrication of Aspheres and Nontraditional Manufacturing Methods 939 -- 26.4 Fabrication Issues for the Optical Designer 947.

"This collection explains principles, processes, methods, and procedures of optical engineering in a concise and practical way, emphasizing fundamental approaches and providing useful formulas and step-by-step worked-out examples to demonstrate applications and clarify calculation methods - including over 2000 tables, flow charts, graphs, schematics, drawings, photographs, and mathematical expressions."--Jacket.