"Version: 20230501"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.part I. A historical, mathematical and optical introduction for beginners. 1. A brief history of stigmatic lens desing -- 1.1. The rise of geometrical optics -- 1.2. Optics of the ancient Greeks and Arab world -- 1.3. Snell, Descartes, Huygens, Newton and Fermat -- 1.4. 19th and 20th century -- 1.5. The computer era and t…
"Version: 20201201"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Preliminaries -- 1.1. Why is lens design hard? -- 1.2. How to use this book2. Fundamentals -- 2.1. Paraxial optics -- 2.2. Lagrange invariant, thin-lens equation -- 2.3. Pupils3. Aberrations -- 3.1. Ray-fan curves -- 3.2. Abbe sine condition -- 3.3. Higher-order aberrations -- 3.4. Spot diagrams -- 3.5. Wavefronts and …
"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: 20200401"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.part I. A historical, mathematical and optical introduction. 1. A brief history of stigmatic lens design -- 1.1. The rise of geometrical optics -- 1.2. Optics of the ancient Greeks and Arab world -- 1.3. Snell, Descartes, Huygens, Newton and Fermat -- 1.4. 19th and 20th century -- 1.5. The computer era and the closure of …
"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: 20180701"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Preliminaries -- 1.1. Why is lens design hard? -- 1.2. How to use this book2. Fundamentals -- 2.1. Paraxial optics -- 2.2. Lagrange invariant, thin-lens equation -- 2.3. Pupils3. Aberrations -- 3.1. Ray-fan curves -- 3.2. Abbe sine condition -- 3.3. Higher-order aberrations -- 3.4. Spot diagrams -- 3.5. Wavefronts and …
"Version: 20221201"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Introduction / Bruno Lovaglio Can?cado Trindade and Davies William de Lima Monteiro -- 2. The human eye and refractive correction / Bruno Lovaglio Can?cado Trindade, Glauber Coutinho Eliazar and Davies William de Lima Monteiro -- 3. Optical parameters and charts / Bruno Lovaglio Can?cado Trindade, Davies William de Lim…