Excellent study provides detailed account of the Hamiltonian treatment of aberration theory in geometrical optics. Important for design of laser cavities, electron optics, crystal physics, other areas. Author deals in logical progression with many classes of optical systems, defined in terms of the symmetries they possess. Detailed solutions. 1970 edition.
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Analytical methods,
By Alexander Gontcharov (Holte Denmark) - See all my reviews
This review is from: An Introduction to Hamiltonian Optics (Dover Classics of Science & Mathematics) (Paperback)
This book is by far the best in the field of geometrical optics dealing with 3-d, 5-th and higher orders aberrations in symmetric optical system. The language is very clear and easy to follow, it is written for a broad audience. I would personally recommend it for all how has an interest in the theory of optical aberrations.
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Book does not meet my expectation,
This review is from: An Introduction to Hamiltonian Optics (Dover Classics of Science & Mathematics) (Paperback)
Having some background in Hamiltonian Mechanics I decided to buy the book to learn something about aberrations in optics. Till chapter 4 I found the book interesting. It defines the optical lenght and explain Fermat Principle, define caracteristic funcions and deduce vectorial ray equations. Chapter 3 explains how important properties can be deduced from symmetry. Chapter 4 introduces different types of aberrations considering the displacement from the ideal imaged point. In paragraph 23. defines the effective aberration coefficients and from there on the book loose all his clarity. It changes several times the notation and writes
long expresion of 12 or more terms with so many coeffiecients that is not posible to remember what are their meaning. I skiped paragraphs, pages and chapters but get the same stuff. So I enjoy only 1/5 of the book (which is better than nothing...) and get disppointed from the rest.
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This review is from: An Introduction to Hamiltonian Optics (Dover Classics of Science & Mathematics) (Paperback)
This is another great book in the Dover series of Classics. All of the books in this series are well worth the cost and have been for at least 30 years. Guess that is why they are classics.
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