A Brief History |
Reflection and Refraction; Prisms, Waveguides, and Dispersion |
Focusing, Imaging, and the Paraxial Approximation |
Aberations & Image Quality |
More Aberrations; Optical Design; GRadient INdex (GRIN) |
Optical Glass |
Sign Conventions; Thin Lenses; Real and Virtual Images |
Thick Lenses; The Composite Lens; The Eye |
Terms: Apertures, Stops, Pupils, and Windows; Single-lens Camera |
Basics of Mirrors, Magnifiers, and Microscopes |
Telescopes; Aberrations: Chromatic, Spherical, and Coma |
IR Lens |
Optical Testing |
Aspheric Optics: Design, Fabrication |
Tolerancing |
Difractive Optics |
Manufacturing of Aspheric Surfaces |
Tolerancing Image Degradations |
The Cassini Wide and Narrow Field Camera Optics |
Off The Shelf Versus Custom Optics |
Industrial and Commercial Applications |
Opto-Mechanics |
Diffractive and Binary Optics |
Integration of Leds |