Introduction to Aberrations in Optical Imaging Systems (Hardcover)

Preface; 1. Introduction; 2. Basic concepts in geometrical optics; 3. Imaging with light rays; 4. Imaging with light waves; 5. The aberration function; 6. The location and size of an image; 7. Wavefront aberrations; 8. Ray aberrations; 9. Ray caustics; 10. Aberration coefficients; 11. Structural aberration coefficients; 12. Pupil aberrations; 13. Irradiance function; 14. Sixth-order aberration coefficients; 15. Aberrations of non-axially symmetric systems; 16. Polarization aberrations; 17. Conclusions; 18. Appendix: wave coefficients; Index.