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Modern Lens Design (McGraw-Hill Professional Engineering)

Modern Lens Design (McGraw-Hill Professional Engineering)

by WarrenJ.Smith (Author)

  • New

    Hardcover 2004

    $152.63
Synopsis

The #1 resource in the optics field has been retooled into a how-to manual for the lens design process

Well-known optics guru Warren J. Smith reveals time-tested methods for designing any major lens type and includes seven fully worked design examples.

$152.63

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20+ in stock

More Information

Format: Hardcover
 Pages: 631
 Edition: 2
 Publisher: McGraw-Hill Professional
Published: 01 Nov 2004
ISBN 10: 0071438300
ISBN 13: 9780071438308

Media Reviews
In this new edition of Smith's book, the focus has changed with the times. There are about half as many lens designs in the new edition, and the new material is directed toward design projects. Smith shows what he did, including blunders, to design a lens from first concept to final design. The designs include a cemented doublet, a triplet anastigmat, a Heliar, a Schmidt-Cassegrain, a landscape lens, and many more. The computer program OSLO was used to design the work, but the write-ups are program-neutral. Therefore, this book can be used with any lens design software. This book is a working person's text; there are very few derivations of techniques or derivations from first principles, Maxwell's equations, or Fermat's principle. The assumption is that the reader understands the basic optical principles and may have a command of the fundamentals of classical optical design methods. In short, a compendium of design techniques available today and a prescriptive resource for a variety of already designed lens types that can be starting points for a lens designer's efforts. Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through professionals. -- D.B. Mason, Albright College Choice 20050601
Author Bio
Warren J. Smith is Chief Scientist at Kaiser Electro-Optics as well as an independent consultant. He is the author of three prior books on lens design, including the first edition of this one, and the classics, Modern Optical Engineering and Practical Optical System Layout. He lives in Carlsbad, California.