Bhattacharya, Shanti (Professor in Optics) creator author. Institute of Physics (Great Britain) publisher. text bibliography enk 2024 monographic eng access 1 online resource (various pagings) : illustrations (some color). Optics is integral to our everyday lives, influencing everything from entertainment technologies to life-saving instruments. Despite its importance, optics is often not a core subject in many undergraduate engineering programs. This book aims to introduce the fundamentals of optics, making the subject accessible to all engineers and scientists, regardless of their background. While primarily designed for undergraduate students, it is also suitable for industry professionals who lack a formal optics education. By mastering the basics of optics, engineers will place themselves in a position to communicate more clearly with and better understand their colleagues. Beyond its educational purpose, this book also seeks to inspire a sense of wonder when observing natural phenomena and the fascinating optical effects produced by modern technology. A unique aspect of this textbook is that it includes a chapter on complex light. Beams that fall under this category are transforming the way imaging is done, and understanding how to generate and manipulate such beams is an essential skill for any aspiring optical engineer. Part of IOP Series in Advances in Optics, Photonics and Optoelectronics. 8. Introduction to complex light -- 8.1. Bessel beams -- 8.2. Airy beams -- 8.3. Generation of complex light -- 8.4. Applications 9. 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 to achieve optical design goals. 1. Introduction -- 1.1. Postulates of geometric optics -- 1.2. The wave nature of light -- 1.3. Bridging the gap between theory and design tools -- 1.4. Problems 2. Geometric optics and imaging -- 2.1. Basic concepts of optical systems -- 2.2. What limits imaging? -- 2.3. Refraction at a single surface -- 2.4. Sign convention -- 2.5. Refraction through a lens -- 2.6. Lens imaging conditions for thin lenses -- 2.7. Aperture stop, pupils, important rays -- 2.8. Important definitions relating to stop size -- 2.9. Mirrors -- 2.10. Bridging the gap between theory and design tools -- 2.11. Problems 3. Thick lenses -- 3.1. Paraxial ray tracing or transfer equations -- 3.2. Ray transfer matrices -- 3.3. The Lagrange invariant -- 3.4. Physical meaning of matrix elements -- 3.5. Cardinal points -- 3.6. Bridging the gap between theory and design tools -- 3.7. Problems 4. Aberrations -- 4.1. Means of quantifying aberrations -- 4.2. Monochromatic aberrations -- 4.3. Chromatic aberrations -- 4.4. Correcting aberrations -- 4.5. Modulation transfer function -- 4.6. Bridging the gap between theory and design tools -- 4.7. Problems 5. Gaussian beams -- 5.1. Gaussian beams -- 5.2. Gaussian beam properties -- 5.3. Characterising a Gaussian beam -- 5.4. Transmittance of an optical element -- 5.5. Matrix methods for Gaussian beams -- 5.6. Gaussian beam transformation through a lens -- 5.7. Problems 6. Basics of interference -- 6.1. Theory -- 6.2. Conditions for interference -- 6.3. Applications of interference, holography -- 6.4. Thin film interference -- 6.5. Fabry-P�erot interferometer -- 6.6. Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory (LIGO) -- 6.7. Holography -- 6.8. Moir�e interferometry -- 6.9. Problems 7. Diffraction and diffractive optics -- 7.1. Diffraction theory -- 7.2. Diffraction case studies -- 7.3. The diffraction grating -- 7.4. Designing diffractive optical elements -- 7.5. Methods of generating a desired diffractive phase profile -- 7.6. Bridging the gap between theory and design tools -- 7.7. Problems Undergraduate and graduate students. specialized Shanti Bhattacharya. "Version: 20241101"--Title page verso. Includes bibliographical references. Full-text restricted to subscribers or individual document purchasers. Also available in print. Mode of access: World Wide Web. System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader, EPUB reader, or Kindle reader. Shanti Bhattacharya obtained her PhD in Physics from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, in 1997. She was awarded the Alexander von Humboldt award in 1998 and worked at the Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany for several years. She subsequently joined Analog Devices, Cambridge, USA, where she worked as a design engineer. She is currently a Professor at the Department of Electrical Engineering, IIT Madras. She has served on the board of OSA (now known as Optica) and is currently an Associate Editor of Optical Engineering and the Journal of Optical Microsystems, as well as being a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Optics (India). Her current research interests are design and fabrication of dielectric meta and diffractive optics, optical MEMS, and studies relating to imaging techniques. While she loves her work with light, she also loves her breaks, which more often than not involve escaping to the Himalayas for a while. Optics Textbooks Optical physics TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Optics QC355.3 .B535 2024eb Release 24 2024 collection 9780750354974 9780750354967 https://iopscience.iop.org/book/mono/978-0-7503-5497-4 https://iopscience.iop.org/book/mono/978-0-7503-5497-4 Full-text restricted to subscribers or individual document purchasers. CaBNVSL 241213 20251030124829.0 9780750354974 eng