Advanced Optical Instruments and Techniques

1. Optics of Biomedical Instrumentation
[Shaun Pacheco, Zhenyue Chen, and Rongguang Liang]

2. Wavefront Slope Measurements in Optical Testing
[Alejandro Cornejo-Rodriguez, Alberto Cordero-Davila, and Fermin S. Granados Agustin]

3. Basic Interferometers
[Daniel Malacara-Hernandez]

4. Modern Fringe Pattern Analysis in Interferometry
[Manuel Servin, Malgorzata Kujawinska, and Jose Moises Padilla]

5. Optical Methods in Metrology: Point Methods
[Zacarias Malacara and Ramon Rodriguez-Vera]

6. Optical Metrology of Diffuse Objects: Full-Field Methods
[Marija Strojnik, Malgorzata Kujawinska, and Daniel Malacara-Hernandez]

7. Active and Adaptive Optics
[Daniel Malacara-Hernandez and Pablo Artal]

8. Holography
[Pierre-Alexandre Blanche]

9. Fourier Optics and Image Processing
[Francis T.S. Yu]

10. Light-Sensitive Materials: Silver Halide Emulsions, Photoresist, and Photopolymers
[Sergio Calixto, Daniel J. Lougnot, and Izabela Naydenova]

11. Electro-Optical and Acousto-Optical Devices
[Mohammad A. Karim]

12. Radiometry
[Marija Strojnik and Michelle K. Scholl]

13. Color and Colorimetry
[Daniel Malacara-Doblado]

14. The Human Eye and Its Aberrations
[Jim Schwiegerling]

15. Incoherent Light Sources
[Zacarias Malacara-Hernandez]

16. Lasers
[Vicente Aboites and Mario Wilson]

17. Spatial and Spectral Filters
[Angus Macleod]

18. Optical Fibers and Accessories
[Andrei N. Starodumov]

19. Isotropic Amorphous Optical Materials
[Luis Efrain Regalado and Daniel Malacara-Hernandez]

20. Anisotropic Materials
[Dennis H. Goldstein]

21. Optical Fabrication
[David Anderson and Jim Burge]

Advanced Optical Instruments and Techniques includes twenty-three chapters providing processes, methods, and procedures of cutting-edge optics engineering design and instrumentation. Topics include biomedical instrumentation and basic and advanced interferometry. Optical metrology is discussed, including point and full-field methods. Active and adaptive optics, holography, radiometry, the human eye, and visible light are covered as well as materials, including photonics, nanophotonics, anisotropic materials, and metamaterials.

Daniel Malacara, PhD, is a Professor at the Centro de Investigaciones en Optica, Leon, Gto, Mexico. A designer and constructor of optical instruments, including telescopes, he is well known for his books, including Optical Shop Testing, which has been translated into several languages. Dr. Malacara is a Fellow of the Optical Society of America and of SPIE, the International Society of Optical Engineering.