num_pages: 714
description: The state-of-the-art full-colored handbook gives a comprehensive introduction to the principles and the practice of calculation, layout, and understanding of optical systems and lens design. Written by reputed industrial experts in the field, this text introduces the user to the basic properties of optical systems, aberration theory, classification and characterization of systems, advanced simulation models, measuring of system quality and manufacturing issues.In this Volume Volume 2 continues the introduction given in volume 1 with the more advanced texts about the foundations of image formation. Emphasis is placed on an intuitive while theoretically exact presentation. More than 400 color graphs and selected references on the end of each chapter support this undertaking.From the 17 Wave equation18 Diffraction19 Interference and coherence20 Imaging21 Imaging with partial coherence22 Three dimensional imaging23 Polarization24 Polarization and optical imagingA1 Mathematical appendixOther Volumes Volume 1: Fundamentals of Technical OpticsVolume 3: Aberration Theory and Correction of Optical SystemsVolume 4: Survey of Optical InstrumentsVolume 5: Advanced Physical Optics
language: English
title: Handbook of Optical Systems, Volume 2: Physical Image Formation
titlecomplete: Handbook of Optical Systems, Volume 2: Physical Image Formation
publisher: Wiley-VCH