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Eleventh Edition
By
Mike Freeman, PhD, MPhil, BSc, MInstP(Hon), CGIA, Optics and Vision Limited, Denbigh, ClwydVisiting Professor, Department of Optometry, City University, London
Christopher Hull, Senior Lecturer, Departent of Optometry and Vision Science, City University, London
Description
Thoroughly updated and revised, this definitive textbook continues to be the best available resource on the theory of optics and applications
in optometry, ophthalmology, and vision science. It presents a complete overview of basic topics in optics and provides a strong foundation
for further learning.
Audience
Optometry students and practitioners, dispensing opticians, ophthalmologists, students of vision sciences
Contents
1. The basics of light and optical surfaces
2. Reflection and refraction at plane surfaces
3. Refraction and reflection at spherical
surfaces
4. Thin lenses
5. Thick lenses and systems of lenses
6. Principles of optical instruments
7. Aberrations and ray
tracing
8. Non-spherical and segmented optical surfaces
9. The nature of light, light sources and detectors
10. Radiometry and
photometry
11. Optical materials: interaction of light and matter
12. Interference and optical films
13. Diffraction: wavefronts
and images
14. Optical design: forming a good image
15. The eye as an optical instrument
Answers to exercises
| Bibliographic details |
Hardbound, 576 pages, publication date: OCT-2003
ISBN-13: 978-0-7506-4248-4
ISBN-10: 0-7506-4248-3
Imprint: BUTTERWORTH HEINEMANN
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Last update: 30 Nov 2009
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