Table of Contents

1. Optics of Biomedical Instrumentation 2. Wavefront Slope Measurements in Optical Testing 3. Basic Interferometers 4. Modern Fringe Pattern Analysis in Interferometry 5. Optical Methods in Metrology: Point Methods 6. Optical Metrology of Diffuse Objects: Full‑Field Methods 7. Active and Adaptive Optics 8. Holography 9. Fourier Optics and Image Processing 10. Light-Sensitive Materials: Silver Halide Emulsions, Photoresist, and Photopolymers 11. Electro-Optical and Acousto-Optical Devices 12. Radiometry 13. Color and Colorimetry 14. The Human Eye and Its Aberrations 15. Incoherent Light Sources 16. Lasers 17. Spatial and Spectral Filters 18. Optical Fibers and Accessories 19. Isotropic Amorphous Optical Materials 20. Anisotropic Materials 21. Optical Fabrication

About the Author

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.