Elements of Modern Optical Design

This book is an excellent intermediate text on the topic of optical design. Many people will have a course that includes Hecht for an overview on optics. That book is not very helpful for more practical issues because it has to cover so many basic concepts. O'Shea is, on the otherhand, focused on practical design steps and includes many examples with successive chapters building on previous. I have had to retrain myself on this material and the book is fantastic. I only wish there were solutions somewhere to check my work. Even so: 5 stars!

This book is pretty good.There are no answers to the homework problems, so it is hard to tell if you have mastered the concepts when used as self-study.It would be nice if it went into a little more depth in places.While it shows the far-field spot patterns (point-spread functions), it doesn't describe the near-field phase can lead to such PSF's even for on-axis objects.

Fine follow up on the worksof Kingsake. Not as comprehensive as the Mil Spec on system design and through put. That document is, unfortunately, no longer available and this modern text does not cover the subject adequately.

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This book has not at all been tasteful for me. I think than the author should rename it: "How to design a laser printer for dummier". I honestly don't know why and what an example about laser printer is doing in such book. Ok, now because I read it I know how the laser printer I use work. But even that part is incomplete. I have seen in an optical handbook more and more information about that. Only the different point shape/pattern was a one page table and O¡¯Shea did not speak at all about that choice.So, let¡¯s talk about this famous laser printer example. Just in itself you don¡¯t think so than such apparatus is more relevant of non imaging system and it¡¯s not at all a good end for a book about optic design in general. The right place to speak about that could be in some expert textbook witch one is really dedicated to non-imaging system.I can't say this book is full of lack, hole and omission, etc. But It¡¯s really difficult to fellow where Mr. Donald C. O'Shea is interested to bring you.

This is one of the few optics textbooks that includes an accessible, engineering-oriented discussion of gaussian beam propagation (Chapter 7). Useful for the designer of laser scanners, etc. That chapter alone makes this a book worth having.