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The eye and visual optical instruments

Title: The eye and visual optical instruments / George Smith, David A. Atchison.
Author: Smith, George, 1941 October 19-
Publication: Cambridge, U.K. ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 1997.

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Additional Authors

Atchison, David A.

Description

xii, 816 p. : ill.; 26 cm.

Summary

There is a wide variety of optical instruments with which the human eye forms an integral part of the overall system. This book provides a comprehensive description of the construction and image formation in such visual optical instruments, ranging from simple magnifiers, through microscopes and telescopes, to more sophisticated interferometric and diffractive devices. Throughout, details of the eye's interaction with a particular optical instrument, the visual ergonomics of the system, are emphasised.
The book begins with a section on the general theory of image formation and a description of basic optical components. The various optical instruments that can be adequately described using geometrical optics are then discussed, followed by a section on diffraction and interference and the instruments based on these effects. There are separate sections devoted to ophthalmic instruments and aberration theory, with a final section covering visual ergonomics in depth.
Dealing with basic physical principles, as well as engineering and design issues, and containing many problems and solutions, this book will be of great use to undergraduate and graduate students of optometry, optical design, optical engineering, and visual science, and to professionals working in these and related fields.

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Contents

Symbols, signs and other conventions -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Image formation and ray tracing -- 3. Paraxial theory of refracting systems -- 4. Paraxial theory of reflecting optics -- 5. Non-Gaussian optics: Introduction to aberrations -- 6. Simple lens types, lens systems and image formation -- 7. Mirror types and image formation -- 8. Prisms -- 9. Aperture stops and pupils, field lenses and stops -- 10. Defocus, depth-of-field and focussing techniques -- 11. Basic optical metrology -- 12. Photometry of optical systems -- 13. The eye -- 14. Ophthalmic lenses -- 15. Simple magnifiers and eyepieces -- 16. Microscopes -- 17. Telescopes -- 18. Macroscopes -- 19. Relay systems -- 20. Angle and distance measuring instruments -- 21. Cameras and camera lenses -- 22. Projectors -- 23. Collimators -- 24. Photometers and colorimeters -- 25. Interferometry and interferometers -- 26. Diffraction and diffractive devices -- 27. Focimeters --
28. Radiuscopes and keratometers -- 29. Ophthalmoscopes -- 30. The Badal optometer -- 31. Optometers -- 32. Binocular vision testing instruments -- 33. Aberration theory -- 34. Image quality criteria -- 35. Aberrations of the eye and retinal image quality -- 36. Visual ergonomics of monocular systems -- 37. Visual ergonomics of binocular and biocular systems -- App. A1. Advanced paraxial optics -- App. A2. Alternative ray trace procedures -- App. A3. Schematic eyes -- App. A5. Resolution and visual acuity charts.

ISBN

LCCN

96023142

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Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries