"Version: 20251101"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. The origins of plate diagram theory -- 1.1. Joseph Petzval (1807-1891) -- 1.2. Lancelot Hugh Aldis (1870-1945) -- 1.3. Cecil Reginald Burch (1901-1983) -- 1.4. To the present day2. The plate diagram for a single surface -- 2.1. First-, third-, and high-order -- 2.2. Useful first-order optics -- 2.3. The Schmidt telesco…
"Version: 20230201"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Introduction / Andy Wood -- 2. Hybrid surface fundamentals / Andy Wood -- 3. Hybrid surface ray tracing / Andy Wood -- 4. Paraxial properties and primary aberrations / Andy Wood -- 5. Chromatic aberration and thermal defocus / Andy Wood -- 6. The Sweatt model / Andy Wood -- 7. Blaze design / Andy Wood -- 8. Modelling d…
"Version: 20140801"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.Preface -- Author biography -- Theory of optical propagation and diffraction -- The Helmholtz equations -- The integral theorem of Helmholtz and Kirchhoff -- The Rayleigh-Sommerfeld formulation of diffractionFourier analysis and linear systems -- Fourier transforms and Fourier analysis -- Fourier analysis in two dimension…
"Version: 20170401"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.Preface -- 1 Fundamental optical formulae -- 1.1. Image formation -- 1.2. Field of view -- 1.3. Depth of field -- 1.4. Exposure2. Exposure strategy -- 2.1. Digital output -- 2.2. Average photometry -- 2.3. Exposure index -- 2.4. Exposure modes3. Raw data model -- 3.1. Linear systems theory -- 3.2. Optics -- 3.3. Sensor --…
"Version: 20251201"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. A new era of tailor-made optical media -- 1.1. Structural evolution : from composites to artificial atoms -- 1.2. The l/a rule : when structure matters -- 1.3. Quest for a negative refractive index2. Effective medium of metamaterials -- 2.1. Constitutive relationship -- 2.2. Understanding metamaterials with a dipolar m…