Overview
- Presentation of the third-order design of cameras and telescopes with the aid of Mathematica eliminates the need for tedious computer calculations
- Mathematica notebooks accompanying each optical combination analyzed in the book are available for download at http://extra.springer.com/978-0-8176-4871-8
- Discussion and analysis of specific optical devices: Newtonian and Cassegrain telescopes; Schmidt, Wright, Houghton, and Maksutov cameras; and other optical combinations, such as the Klevtsov telescope and the Baker–Schmidt flat-field camera
- For a broad audience of graduate students, researchers, and practitioners in applied mathematics, engineering, astronomy, and astronomical optics
- Many worked-out examples and exercises; may be used as a text for a graduate-level course in astronomical optics, optical design, optical engineering, programming with Mathematica, or geometric optics
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Modeling and Simulation in Science, Engineering and Technology (MSSET)
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Back Matter
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About this book
This book—unique in the literature—provides readers with the mathematical background needed to design many of the optical combinations that are used in astronomical telescopes and cameras. The results presented in the work were obtained by using a different approach to third-order aberration theory as well as the extensive use of the software package Mathematica®.
The newly presented approach to third-order aberration theory adopted is based on Fermat’s principle and the use of particular optical paths—not rays—termed stigmatic paths, allowing for easy derivation of third-order formulae. This approach enables readers to understand and handle the formulae required to design optical combinations without resorting to the much more complex Hamiltonian formalism and Seidel's relations.
Additional features and topics:
* Presentation of the third-order design of cameras and telescopes with the aid of Mathematica eliminates the need for tedious computer calculations
* Mathematica notebooks accompanying each optical combination analyzed in the book are available for download at http://extra.springer.com/978-0-8176-4871-8
* Discussion and analysis of specific optical devices: Newtonian and Cassegrain telescopes; Schmidt, Wright, Houghton, and Maksutov cameras; and other optical combinations, such as the Klevtsov telescope and the Baker–Schmidt flat-field camera
* Additional supplementary material available at the publisher's website
* Many worked-out examples and exercises
Geometric Optics is an excellent reference for advanced graduate students, researchers, and practitioners in applied mathematics, engineering, astronomy, and astronomical optics. The work may be used as a supplementary textbook for graduate-level courses in astronomical optics, optical design, optical engineering, programming with Mathematica, or geometricoptics.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Geometric Optics
Book Subtitle: Theory and Design of Astronomical Optical Systems Using Mathematica®
Authors: Antonio Romano
Series Title: Modeling and Simulation in Science, Engineering and Technology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-8176-4872-5
Publisher: Birkhäuser Boston, MA
eBook Packages: Mathematics and Statistics, Mathematics and Statistics (R0)
Copyright Information: Birkhäuser Boston 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-0-8176-4872-5Published: 10 October 2009
Series ISSN: 2164-3679
Series E-ISSN: 2164-3725
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 224
Number of Illustrations: 130 b/w illustrations
Topics: Optics, Lasers, Photonics, Optical Devices, Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology, Physics, general, Mathematical Modeling and Industrial Mathematics, Microwaves, RF and Optical Engineering, Geometry