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This comprehensive and cohesive work includes all the relevant data to allow optical
engineers worldwide to meet present and upcoming challenges in their day-to-day
responsibilities. The thrust of the Handbook of Optical Engineering is toward
engineering and technology rather than theoretical science.
The book has 26 chapters that cover most but not all topics in optics, beginning
with a few chapters describing the principles of optics elements. These are followed
by more technical and applied chapters.
All authors prepared their chapters with the following criteria in mind:
Descriptions are restricted to explaining principles, processes, methods, and
procedures in a concise and practical way so that the reader can easily
apply the topics discussed. Fundamental descriptions and a how-to-do-it
approach are emphasized.
Useful formulas are provided wherever possible, along with step-by-step,
worked-out examples, as needed, to illustrate applications and clarify calculation
methods. Formulas are arranged in the best sequence for use on a
computer or calculator.
The book is replete with tables, flow charts, graphs, schematics and line drawings in
the tradition of useful reference books and major handbooks. National and ISO
standards are included where appropriate, and permitted, in suitable abridgement
for useful reference. Overlapping among different chapters has been avoided unless
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