Description: The state of the art in optical shop testing has made considerable advances in the ten years since the publication of the first edition of this book. Going beyond semiquantitative tests such as the Foucault and Ronchi, time and precision have been gained with growing contributions from electronic detectors, coherent light sources, and computer-aided data analysis. Yet, while those advances afford opticists a new freedom from routine testing, they must be able to fully understand and communicate them to the technicians who use them. Optical Shop Testing, Second Edition is an invaluable sourcebook for engineers, opticists, physicists, and all others with an interest in the field. It reviews all recent advances as well as improvements in established methods. It describes comprehensively the current state of optical component and systems testing technology. As in the first edition, this new edition emphasizes tests for construction rather than final evaluation.

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