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Informationen zum Autor José Sasián is Professor of Optical Sciences at the College of Optical Sciences, University of Arizona. His research areas include aberration theory, optical design, light in gemstones, art in optics and optics in art, optical imaging and light propagation in general. Klappentext An accessible, well presented introduction to the theory of optical aberrations, covering key topics that are often missing from comparable books. Zusammenfassung Accessible introduction to the theory of optical aberrations that will appeal to graduate students in optical physics and engineering and to researchers and technicians in academia and industry. The author presents topics that are missing from related books! such as pupil aberrations! the irradiance function! aberration fields and polarization aberrations. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface; 1. Introduction; 2. Basic concepts in geometrical optics; 3. Imaging with light rays; 4. Imaging with light waves; 5. The aberration function; 6. The location and size of an image; 7. Wavefront aberrations; 8. Ray aberrations; 9. Ray caustics; 10. Aberration coefficients; 11. Structural aberration coefficients; 12. Pupil aberrations; 13. Irradiance function; 14. Sixth-order aberration coefficients; 15. Aberrations of non-axially symmetric systems; 16. Polarization aberrations; 17. Conclusions; 18. Appendix: wave coefficients; Index.
