Thisbook,AppliedOptics,isafundamentaltechnicalcourseforthespecialtiesofopticalengineering,opticalmeasurement,controlinstrumentsandelectronicscienceandtechnology.Thebookmainlyincludesbasictheoriesandmethodsofhowtosolvetheproblemsofgeometricaloptics,typicalopticalinstruments,opticalmeasurement,colormeasurement,opticalfibersystems,lasersystemsandinfraredoptics.Theknowledgementionedaboveisamustfortheopto-electronicstudentslearning.
TheChineseeditionofthebookhasbeenacknowledgedastheearliestandthebestclassicaltextinChina.ManyChineseuniversitieshavechosenthebookasthetextbookforthecourse.However,thereisnoequivalentEnglishversionforappliedopticsinChina,whichresultsinlackingindustrywordingsforChinesestudents.InordertoencouragethemtokeepupwithinternationallevelandhastheabilityofreferringtoglobalmaterialsduringtheirMasterDegreestudies,thisEnglishversionforappliedopticsisthuspushedforward.
Thebookstartswiththebasictheoryofgeometricaloptics,wheretheimagingpropertiesoftheidealsystem,therelationshipbetweentheobjectandtheimageforthesymmetricalsphericalsystem,theinstrumentsforthehumaneyes,themirrorandprismsystemsandselectionofimageraysinopticalsystemsaredescribed.Thenitdiscussestheradiometryandphotometry,wherethecalculationsofradiometryandphotometryforvariousopticalsystemsareintroduced.Atlast,itincorporatestheimagequalityofanopticalsystem,wheregeometricalaberrations,waveaberrationsandopticaltransferfunctionaredescribed.And,thetheoriesoftelescope,microscopeandcamerasystemsarealsoincluded.