Modern Optical Engineering (Press Monograph) (Press Monographs) - Hardcover
This is the definitive optics text - completely revised. Long-established as the definitive reference on optical engineering and lens technology, ""Modern Optical Engineering"" has been updated to include all of the latest advances in optical design technology. The Fourth Edition now contains leading-edge content on optical engineering theory, design, and practice, including new chapters on ray tracing, optical system design, and third-order aberration theory. Written by world-renowned lens designer Warren J. Smith, this comprehensive guide provides unsurpassed coverage of such topics as image formation, basic optical devices, image evaluation, and fabrication and testing methods. With over 150 detailed illustrations, ""Modern Optical Engineering"" also features new lens designs as well as new problems and exercises. This title was copublished with McGraw-Hill.
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Book Description:
A classic engineering reference that sold over 11,000 copies in its 2nd edition and hasn't been revised in a decade, this book is it's field's standard reference, no contest. At long last it's being revised to cover an entire decade's worth of optical and lens advances. Contains a cd-rom.
From the Back Cover:
"The most valuable reference text available today to those working in the field."
--Bruce H. Walker, Walker Associates, Southampton, MA
--Bruce H. Walker, Walker Associates, Southampton, MA
"An enduring classic standard text because of Smith's style and ability to explain optical concepts."
--R.R. Shannon, Professor Emeritus, Optical Sciences Center, University of Arizona; author of The Art and Science of Optical Design Smith's Classic, for Millennium Three
The book that both experts and neophytes turn to first, Warren J. Smith's revered Modern Optical Engineering is now updated with the latest applications, tools, and techniques--plus new insights from the master. It's a resource that anyone interested in optics won't want to miss.
NEW IN THIS EDITION
*Expanded coverage of diffractive and replicated optics
*Lens design in depth
*Testing and fabrication updates
*Updates on IR and illumination systems, detectors, scanners, and image quality
*More on radiometry
*Computer aids*Wave front aberration verses PSF and Strehe ratio
*Smith's own "Rules of Thumb"
*Current developments
*Electronic version of the complete book on CD-ROM
A volume in the McGraw-Hill Series on Optical and Electro-Optical Engineering.
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- PublisherSPIE Press
- Publication date2007
- ISBN 10 0819470961
- ISBN 13 9780819470966
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number4
- Number of pages768
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