This handbook explains principles, processes, methods, and procedures of optical engineering concisely and practically. The second edition contains new chapters on paraxial ray-tracing, aberrations, and optical design, polarization and polarizing optical devices, microscopes, biomedical instrumentation, and optical metrology methods. The new edition also includes chapters on active and adaptive optics, non-diffractive Bessel and airy beams, color and colorimetry, physiological optics and eye aberrations, and photonic materials, nanophotonics, and metamaterials. Features Explain principles, processes, methods, and procedures of optical engineering concisely and practically Provides useful formulas and step-by-step worked-out examples to demonstrate applications and clarify calculation methods Includes over 2,000 tables, flow charts, graphs, schematics, drawings, photographs, and mathematical expressions.
