Download or read book Optical Path Theory written by Rafael G. Gonzalez-Acuna and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Optical Path Theory Fundamentals Freefhb written by Hector A (Oxford Immune algorithmics (Mexico)) Chaparro-Romo and published by IOP ebooks. This book was released on 2022-06-13 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is mostly based in an equation that was recently published. The equation is the general formula for adaptive optics mirrors, which was published in January 2021 - General mirror formula for adaptive optics, Applied Optics 60(2). The book addresses the introductory topics, the solution (general formula for adaptive optics mirrors), the implications, and the potential applications. Optical Path Theory: Fundamentals to freeform adaptive optics focuses on the potential to find analytical close form solutions using optical path theory to solve and design adaptive optics systems, with a thorough introduction to the subject. The book moves into exploring optical systems in the plane. Step-by-step equations provide each of these systems to plot their waves, emphasising the mathematical derivations. With a mathematical presentation of concepts, this book is complete with details, problems, solutions, and a multitude of useful examples. Ideal for graduates in optics. Key Features - Provides an introduction of the three main axioms implemented in optical path theory - Includes worked examples and problems in each chapter - Presents codes and algorithms - Details the physical concepts and mathematical tools needed to understand eikonal and the closed form solution of stigmatic optical systems - Contains Mathematica throughout.
Download or read book The Ray and Wave Theory of Lenses written by A. Walther and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2006-11-02 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book gives a detailed description of lens behaviour in real optical systems.
Download or read book Galileo Unbound written by David D. Nolte and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-07-12 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Galileo Unbound traces the journey that brought us from Galileo's law of free fall to today's geneticists measuring evolutionary drift, entangled quantum particles moving among many worlds, and our lives as trajectories traversing a health space with thousands of dimensions. Remarkably, common themes persist that predict the evolution of species as readily as the orbits of planets or the collapse of stars into black holes. This book tells the history of spaces of expanding dimension and increasing abstraction and how they continue today to give new insight into the physics of complex systems. Galileo published the first modern law of motion, the Law of Fall, that was ideal and simple, laying the foundation upon which Newton built the first theory of dynamics. Early in the twentieth century, geometry became the cause of motion rather than the result when Einstein envisioned the fabric of space-time warped by mass and energy, forcing light rays to bend past the Sun. Possibly more radical was Feynman's dilemma of quantum particles taking all paths at once — setting the stage for the modern fields of quantum field theory and quantum computing. Yet as concepts of motion have evolved, one thing has remained constant, the need to track ever more complex changes and to capture their essence, to find patterns in the chaos as we try to predict and control our world.
Download or read book An Introduction to the Theory of Optics written by Sir Arthur Schuster and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Mathematical Theory of Optics written by Rudolf Karl Luneburg and published by . This book was released on 1944 with total page 550 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Ray Optics Fermat s Principle and Applications to General Relativity written by Volker Perlick and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2003-07-01 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is about the mathematical theory of light propagation in media on general-relativistic spacetimes. The first part discusses the transition from Maxwell's equations to ray optics. The second part establishes a general mathematical framework for treating ray optics as a theory in its own right, making extensive use of the Hamiltonian formalism. This part also includes a detailed discussion of variational principles (i.e., various versions of Fermat's principle) for light rays in general-relativistic media. Some applications, e.g. to gravitational lensing, are worked out. The reader is assumed to have some basic knowledge of general relativity and some familiarity with differential geometry. Some of the results are published here for the first time, e.g. a general-relativistic version of Fermat's principle for light rays in a medium that has to satisfy some regularity condition only.
Download or read book Geometric Optics written by Antonio Romano and published by Birkhäuser. This book was released on 2016-09-26 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book—unique in the literature—provides readers with the mathematical background needed to design many of the optical combinations that are used in astronomical telescopes and cameras. The results presented in the work were obtained by using a different approach to third-order aberration theory as well as the extensive use of the software package Mathematica®. Replete with workout examples and exercises, Geometric Optics is an excellent reference for advanced graduate students, researchers, and practitioners in applied mathematics, engineering, astronomy, and astronomical optics. The work may be used as a supplementary textbook for graduate-level courses in astronomical optics, optical design, optical engineering, programming with Mathematica, or geometric optics.
Download or read book Understanding Optical Systems Through Theory and Case Studies written by Sijiong Zhang and published by SPIE-International Society for Optical Engineering. This book was released on 2017 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explains how to understand and analyze the working principles of optical systems by means of optical theories and case studies. Part I focuses mainly on the theory of classical optics, providing an introduction to geometrical and wave optics, and some concepts of quantum and statistical optics. Part II presents case studies of three practical optical systems that comprise important and commonly used optical elements: confocal microscopes, online co-phasing optical systems for segmented mirrors, and adaptive optics systems. With the theoretical background gained in Part I, readers can apply their understanding of the optical systems presented in Part II to the conception of their own novel optical systems. The book can be used as a text or reference guide for students majoring in optics or physics. It can also be used as a reference for any scientist, engineer, or researcher whose work involves optical systems.
Download or read book Introduction to Design of Optical Systems written by Dimitar Popmintchev and published by . This book was released on 2018-04-10 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This textbook is devoted to the fundamentals of optical system design and analysis. It is part of series on applied optics covering the math and theory of the Optical phenomena. This book starts wilh short overview of the wave optics and transitions to the theory of geometric optics and its limitations. It is self-contained and only basics of Fourier optics are covered that relate to applications and design of optical and imaging systems. The third chapter covers concepts of simple imaging systems. The last fourth chapter, discusses the theory of third order aberrations. The text is more appropriate for researchers, grad students, undergrad students, with interests in the realm of Optics. The series is written in language that is accessible for large audience, however, calculus is highly recommended as it goes in depth discussing the topics. It does not cover the use of specific raytracing software for optimization. Last update: 8 January 2019 Length: 216 pages 83 figures in color
Download or read book Mathematical Theory of Optics written by R. K. Luneburg and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-11-15 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1964.
Download or read book Mathematical Theory of Optics written by Rudolf Karl Luneburg and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1966 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Fundamentals of Practical Aberration Theory written by Yoshiya Matsui and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 1993 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At present, although most of the optical design processes are automated with the aid of computer software, the fundamental question of how we can generate the initial optical configuration such that it can be dealt with by the computer remains. The answer can only be found in applying techniques based on the aberration theory. Previous works have explored this subject matter. None, however, has covered the full extent of first deriving the aberration theory and then illustrating with the help of various kinds of actual examples how it can be applied effectively to practical design problems. This book is significant in its attempt to put theory into practice for the first time to provide new insight and knowledge to its readers.
Download or read book Physics of Light and Optics Black White written by Michael Ware and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2020 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Adaptive Optics Theory and Its Application in Optical Wireless Communication written by Xizheng Ke and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-03-23 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book introduces in detail the theory of adaptive optics and its correction technology for light wave distortion in wireless optical communication. It discusses the adaptive control algorithm of wavefront distortion, proportional+integral control algorithm and iterative control algorithm, and double fuzzy adaptive PID control algorithm. It also covers the SPGD algorithm of adaptive optics correction, deformable mirrors eigenmode method of wavefront aberration correction, vortex beam wavefront detecting wavefront aberration correction, liquid crystal spatial light modulator wavefront correction, different wavelengths of Gaussian beam transmission wavefront differences in the atmospheric turbulence and correction and with wavefront tilt correction adaptive optics wavefront aberration correction. Various distortion correction methods are verified by experiments and the experimental results are analyzed. This book is suitable for engineering and technical personnel engaged in wireless optical communication, college teachers, graduate students and senior undergraduate students.
Download or read book Principles of Optics written by Max Born and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2013-06-01 with total page 871 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Principles of Optics: Electromagnetic Theory of Propagation, Interference and Diffraction of Light, Sixth Edition covers optical phenomenon that can be treated with Maxwell’s phenomenological theory. The book is comprised of 14 chapters that discuss various topics about optics, such as geometrical theories, image forming instruments, and optics of metals and crystals. The text covers the elements of the theories of interference, interferometers, and diffraction. The book tackles several behaviors of light, including its diffraction when exposed to ultrasonic waves. The selection will be most useful to researchers whose work involves understanding the behavior of light.
Download or read book Introduction to Statistical Optics written by Edward L. O'Neill and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Green's function and linear theory -- Spatial versus time filters -- Introduction to geometrical optics -- The geometrical theory of aberrations -- Diffraction theory of image formation -- Analysis and synthesis -- Statistical methods -- Matrix and coherence theory -- The theory of partial polarization -- Fourier-Bessel series and integrals -- Probability and entropy theory.
