Elements of Modern Optical Design

By Donald C. O'Shea

A textbook for elementary optical design that treats lasers, modulators and scanners as part of the design process. Moves from the simplest concepts in optics to a basic understanding of ray tracing in optical systems, the components of those systems, and the process by which a design is produced. Features numerous, examples and figures.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0471077968
• ISBN13: 9780471077961
• Release Date: August 1985
• Publisher: Wiley-Interscience
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 1.68 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.5" x 9.5"

Customer Reviews

An Egineers Text

This is a great book. For a working engineer in optics it is one of the three you need to survive. I rate it just under Smith, and Kingslake for usable content; which is no small tribute. It is written in plain, clear Engish with worked numerical examples. Those examples are well chosen to cover the interesting uses of a technique. I'm paying the author the ultimate compliment. I'm in the process of ordering a second copy, since somebody snagged mine.

Good treatment of gaussian beam propagation

This is one of the few optics textbooks that includes an accessible, engineering-oriented discussion of gaussian beam propagation (Chapter 7). Useful for the designer of laser scanners, etc. That chapter alone makes this a book worth having.

This book was very clear and concise

O'Shea is probably the easiest reading optics book I have ever read. It had great examples and gave a very solid overview of many topics. The y-u ray tracing technique he lays out is very powerful yet simple and is a must-know method for quick and dirty design of optical systems. O'Shea doesn't go into extreme detail and really only includes vital equations so the book is more of a concept book than a dictionary of equations. Another great book to check out is "Introduction to Optics" by Pedrotti & Pedrotti.