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What is light? Where are optics and photonics present in our lives and in nature? What lies behind different optical phenomena? What is an optical instrument? How does the eye resemble an optical instrument? How can we explain human vision? This book, written by a group of young scientists, answers these questions and many more.

Offers an introduction to optics and optical fabrication that provides technicians with simple explanations supported by illustrations and diagrams. The behaviour and performance of optical elements as individual components and as members of complete systems are discussed and evaluated. Detailed examples and calculations are included.

Proceedings of SPIE offer access to the latest innovations in research and technology and are among the most cited references in patent literature.

Proceedings of SPIE offer access to the latest innovations in research and technology and are among the most cited references in patent literature.

Many items we use in our daily lives - the traffic signals, motion sensors, fingerprint readers, cell phone cameras, bar code scanners, and DVD players - rely upon plastic optical systems to perform. This book provides an overview of the design of plastic optical systems and is structured along the lines of a typical development project.

Provides an account of the theory of image formation in a confocal fluorescence microscope, as well as a practical guideline to the operation of the instrument, its limitations, and the interpretation of confocal microscopy data. The appendices provide a reference to optical theory, microscopy-related formulas and definitions, and Fourier theory.