"Version: 20241101"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.8. Introduction to complex light -- 8.1. Bessel beams -- 8.2. Airy beams -- 8.3. Generation of complex light -- 8.4. Applications9. Everyday optical systems and beyond -- 9.1. Barcode readers -- 9.2. Finger print sensors -- 9.3. Pulse oximeters -- 9.4. Interferometry based measurements -- Appendix A. Using Zemax or OSLO t…
"Version: 20191201"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Digital techniques of data and image encryption -- 1.1. Introduction -- 1.2. Types of cryptography2. Optical techniques of image encryption : symmetric cryptosystems -- 2.1. Introduction -- 2.2. Encryption using linear canonical transforms3. Fully-phase image encryption -- 3.1. Introduction -- 3.2. Phase imaging -- 3.3…
"Version: 20241001"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Fundamentals of printing -- 1.1. What is printing? -- 1.2. What is a print? -- 1.3. Different printing technologies -- 1.4. What is the future of print?2. Printing on different substrates -- 2.1. Printing on paper -- 2.2. Printing on ceramics and metal, from tableware to tiles -- 2.3. Printing on plastic -- 2.4. Printi…
"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: 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…