Optical specification, fabrication, and testing

✍ Scribed by Schwiegerling, Jim

• Publisher: SPIE Press
• Year: 2014
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 218
• Series: SPIE Press monograph PM252
• Edition: First
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book connects the dots between geometrical optics, interference and diffraction, and aberrations to illustrate the development of an optical system. It focuses on initial layout, design and aberration analysis, fabrication, and, finally, testing and verification of the individual components and the system performance.  It also covers more specialized topics such as fitting Zernike polynomials, representing aspheric surfaces with the Forbes Q polynomials, and testing with the ShackHartmann wavefront sensor. These topics are discussed in more detail than is found in other textbooks, and the techniques are developed to the point where readers can pursue their own analyses or modify to their particular situations

✦ Table of Contents

Content: Preface --
List of acronyms --
Chapter 1. Properties of optical systems --
Chapter 2. Diffraction and aberrations --
Chapter 3. Optical quality metrics --
Chapter 4. Optical surfaces and their fabrication --
Chapter 5. Non-interferometric testing --
Chapter 6. Basic interferometry and optical testing.

✦ Subjects

Optical instruments -- Design and construction. Optical instruments -- Specifications. Optical materials -- Specifications. TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Technical & Manufacturing Industries & Trades. Optical instruments. Optical materials.