A Practical Guide to Experimental Geometrical Optics

A concise, yet deep introduction to geometrical optics developing the practical skills and research techniques used in modern laboratories.

Yuriy A. Garbovskiy (Author), Anatoliy V. Glushchenko (Author)

9781107170940, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 28 December 2017

238 pages, 146 b/w illus. 97 tables
25.3 x 17.8 x 1.5 cm, 0.63 kg

'I commend the authors for providing the optics community with an excellent laboratory manual that helps the reader to construct optical instruments that can be used to validate the material found in textbooks on geometrical optics … Hands-on experiments are preferable to demonstrations and videos of experiments; they provide critical training for readers who will actually work with optics and construct instruments. The book contains the basic physical theory and associated mathematics, a materials list, procedures, and suggestions for the reader's modification of the experiments. There are clear diagrams of ray tracing, detailed definitions of optical terms, images of the instruments and circuit diagrams of the associated electronics. The last chapter introduces the reader to optical software. Suggested references and an index are also provided.' Barry R. Masters, Optics and Photonics News

A concise, yet deep introduction to experimental, geometrical optics, this book begins with fundamental concepts and then develops the practical skills and research techniques routinely used in modern laboratories. Suitable for students, researchers and optical engineers, this accessible text teaches readers how to build their own optical laboratory and to design and perform optical experiments. It uses a hands-on approach which fills a gap between theory-based textbooks and laboratory manuals, allowing the reader to develop their practical skills in this interdisciplinary field, and also explores the ways in which this knowledge can be applied to the design and production of commercial optical devices. Including supplementary online resources to help readers track and evaluate their experimental results, this text is the ideal companion for anyone with a practical interest in experimental geometrical optics.

Preface
1. Markets of optical materials, components, accessories, light sources and detectors
2. Introduction to optical experiments: light producing, light managing, light detection and measuring
3. Light detectors based on semiconductors: photoresistors, photodiodes in a photo-galvanic regime. Principles of operation and measurements
4. Linear light detectors based on photodiodes
5. Basic laws of geometrical optics: experimental verification
6. Converging and diverging thin lenses
7. Thick lenses
8. Lens systems
9. Simple optical instruments I: the eye and the magnifier, eyepieces and telescopes
10. Simple optical instruments II: light illuminators and microscope
11. Spherical mirrors
12. Introduction to optical aberrations
13. Elements of optical radiometry
14. Cylindrical lenses and vials
15. Methods of geometrical optics to measure refractive index
16. Dispersion of light and prism spectroscope
17. Elements of computer aided optical design
Index.

Subject Areas: Optical physics [PHJ], Physics [PH]