Practical Optics

This book attempts to bridge the gap existing between what students learn in optical engineering curricula and the problems they realistically will face as optical engineering practitioners, in a variety of high-tech industries. A broad range of topics from modern electro-optics are addressed in this book, including geometrical optics, aberration theory and aspects of physical optics, a description of radiation sources and radiation detectors, spectroscopy systems, color measurements, and optical systems from different application areas. Coverage of each topic includes examples and problems, ail of which are original and derived from realistic applications, such as optical configuration for automatic inspection in industry, surveying systems, robot navigation, X-ray imaging, computerized radiography, microscopy vision and measurements, laser Doppler technique and flow study, non-contact measurement of temperature, acousto-optical scanners, spectral analysis, and more. Condensed background information related to mort topics of modern Electro-Optics and Optical Engineering. Detailed solutions are provided for every problem, both theoretical and numerical. Coverage includes some topics rarely included in optics textbooks, such as non-contact measurements of temperature, velocity, or color.