Handbook of optical design / Daniel Malacara, Zacarias Malacara.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Malacara, Daniel, 1937-

Contributor:

Malacara, Zacarias, 1948-

Malacara, Daniel, 1937-

Rosengarten Family Fund.

Series:

Optical engineering (Marcel Dekker, Inc.) ; v. 85.

Optical engineering ; 85

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Lenses--Design and construction--Handbooks, manuals, etc.

Lenses.

Mirrors--Design and construction--Handbooks, manuals, etc.

Mirrors.

Optical instruments--Design and construction--Handbooks, manuals, etc.

Optical instruments.

Optical instruments--Design and construction.

Mirrors--Design and construction.

Lenses--Design and construction.

Genre:

Handbooks and manuals.

Physical Description:

xii, 533 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Edition:

Second edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Marcel Dekker, [2004]

Summary:

The second edition of a text which details the components of complex photographic lenses, astronomical telescopes, visual and afocal systems and terrestrial telescopes and lens design optimization. It discusses geometrical optics principles, thin lenses and spherical mirrors, spherical aberration and diffraction in optical systems.

Contents:

1. Geometrical Optics Principles 1

1.1 Wave Nature of Light and Fermat's Principle 1

1.2 Reflection and Refraction Laws 9

1.3 Basic Meridional Ray Tracing Equations 12

1.4 Gaussian or First-Order Optics 18

1.5 Image Formation 22

1.6 Stop, Pupils, and Principal Ray 25

1.7 Optical Sine Theorem 29

1.8 Herschel Invariant and Image Magnifications 33

1.9 Ray Aberrations and Wave Aberrations 34

2. Thin Lenses and Spherical Mirrors 39

2.1 Thin Lenses 39

2.2 Formulas for Image Formation with Thin Lenses 42

2.3 Nodal Points of a Thin Lens 44

2.4 Image Formation with Convergent Lenses 45

2.5 Image Formation with Divergent Lenses 47

3. Systems of Several Lenses and Thick Lenses 49

3.1 Focal Length and Power of a Lens System 49

3.2 Image Formation with Thick Lenses or Systems of Lenses 51

3.4 Image Formation with a Tilted or Curved Object 55

3.5 Thick Lenses 57

3.6 Systems of Thin Lenses 60

3.7 The Lagrange Invariant in a System of Thin Lenses 63

3.8 Effect of Object or Stop Shifting 64

3.9 The Delano y-y Diagram 67

4. Spherical Aberration 73

4.1 Spherical Aberration Calculation 73

4.2 Primary Spherical Aberration 77

4.3 Aspherical Surfaces 86

4.4 Spherical Aberration of Aspherical Surfaces 86

4.5 Surfaces without Spherical Aberration 87

4.6 Aberration Polynomial for Spherical Aberration 91

4.7 High-Order Spherical Aberration 98

4.8 Spherical Aberration Correction with Gradient Index 99

5. Monochromatic Off-Axis Aberrations 103

5.1 Oblique Rays 103

5.2 Petzval Curvature 109

5.3 Coma 112

5.4 Astigmatism 116

5.5 Distortion 129

5.6 Off-Axis Aberrations in Aspherical Surfaces 132

5.7 Aberrations and Wavefront Deformations 135

5.8 Symmetrical Principle 138

5.9 Stop Shift Equations 139

6. Chromatic Aberrations 145

6.2 Axial Chromatic Aberration 146

6.3 Secondary Color Aberration 158

6.4 Magnification Chromatic Aberration 160

7. The Aberration Polynomial 171

7.1 Wave Aberration Polynomial 171

7.2 Zernike Polynomials 175

7.3 Wavefront Representation by an Array of Gaussians 180

7.4 Transverse Aberration Polynomials 183

8. Diffraction in Optical Systems 191

8.1 Huygens-Fresnel Theory 191

8.2 Fresnel Diffraction 192

8.3 Fraunhofer Diffraction 195

8.4 Diffraction Images with Aberrations 200

8.5 Strehl Ratio 202

8.6 Optical Transfer Function 204

8.7 Resolution Criteria 209

8.8 Gaussian Beams 211

9. Computer Evaluation of Optical Systems 217

9.1 Meridional Ray Tracing and Stop Position Analysis 217

9.2 Spot Diagram 219

9.3 Wavefront Deformation 224

9.4 Point and Line Spread Functions 230

9.5 Optical Transfer Function 232

9.6 Tolerance to Aberrations 234

10. Prisms 239

10.1 Tunnel Diagram 239

10.2 Deflecting a Light Beam 239

10.3 Transforming an Image 242

10.4 Deflecting and Transforming Prisms 244

10.5 Nondeflecting Transforming Prisms 248

10.6 Beam-Splitting Prisms 251

10.7 Chromatic Dispersing Prisms 253

11. Simple Optical Systems and Photographic Lenses 259

11.1 Optical Systems Diversity 259

11.2 Single Lens 260

11.3 Spherical and Paraboloidal Mirrors 270

11.4 Periscopic Lens 281

11.5 Achromatic Landscape Lenses 283

11.6 Achromatic Double Lens 284

11.7 Some Catoptric and Catadioptric Systems 285

11.8 Fresnel Lenses and Gabor Plates 288

12. Complex Photographic Lenses 291

12.2 Asymmetrical Systems 292

12.3 Symmetrical Anastigmat Systems 301

12.4 Varifocal and Zoom Lenses 306

13. The Human Eye and Ophthalmic Lenses 315

13.3 Ophthalmic Lens Design 322

13.4 Prismatic Lenses 328

13.5 Spherocylindrical Lenses 329

14. Astronomical Telescopes 333

14.1 Resolution and Light Gathering Power 333

14.2 Catadioptric Cameras 337

14.3 Newton Telescope 341

14.4 Reflecting Two-Mirror Telescopes 342

14.5 Field Correctors 357

14.6 Catadioptric Telescopes 362

14.7 Multiple Mirror Telescopes 365

14.8 Active and Adaptive Optics 367

15. Visual Systems, Visual Telescopes, and Afocal Systems 373

15.1 Visual Optical Systems 373

15.2 Basic Telescopic System 376

15.4 Refracting Objectives 382

15.5 Visual and Terrestrial Telescopes 393

15.6 Telescope Eyepieces 398

15.7 Relays and Periscopes 407

16. Microscopes 415

16.1 Compound Microscope 415

16.2 Microscope Objectives 421

16.3 Microscope Eyepieces 430

16.4 Microscope Illuminators 434

17. Projection Systems 439

17.1 Slide and Movie Projectors 439

17.2 Coherence Effects in Projectors 440

17.3 Main Projector Components 441

17.4 Anamorphic Projection 445

17.5 Overhead Projectors 446

17.6 Profile Projectors 447

17.7 Television Projectors 448

18. Lens Design Optimization 451

18.2 Optimization Methods 452

18.3 Glatzel Adaptive Method 453

18.4 Constrained Damped Least Squares Optimization Method 455

18.5 Merit Function and Boundary Conditions 463

18.6 Modern Trends in Optical Design 469

18.7 Flow Chart for a Lens Optimization Program 470

18.8 Lens Design and Evaluation Programs 470

18.9 Some Commercial Lens Design Programs 472

Appendix 1. Notation and Primary Aberration Coefficients Summary 477

A1.2 Summary of Primary Aberration Coefficients 480

Appendix 2. Mathematical Representation of Optical Surfaces 485

A2.1 Spherical and Aspherical Surfaces 485

Appendix 3. Optical Materials 497

A3.1 Optical Glasses 497

A3.2 Optical Plastics 500

A3.3 Infrared and Ultraviolet Materials 500

Appendix 4. Exact Ray Tracing of Skew Rays 503

A4.3 Tracing Through Tilted or Decentered Optical Surfaces 515.

Notes:

Rev. ed. of: Handbook of lens design. c1994.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 521-522) and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.

Related Work:

Malacara, Daniel, 1937- Handbook of lens design.

ISBN:

0824746139

OCLC:

52962985