If you want the best performance from your optics, they need to be properly maintained. This book describes the cleaning, handling, and storage methods used by professional technicians to keep optics in top condition. It is written for a diverse audience, from first-time optical cleaners to assembly technicians and seasoned engineers.

A complete basic undergraduate course in modern optics for students in physics, technology, and engineering. The first half deals with classical physical optics; the second, quantum nature of light. Solutions.

Entirely updated to cover the latest technology, this Second Edition gives optical designers and optomechanical engineers a thorough understanding of the principal ways in which optical components - lenses, windows, filters, shells, domes, prisms, and mirrors of all sizes - are mounted in optical instruments.Along with new information on tolerancing, sealing considerations, elastomeric mountings, alignment, stress estimation, and temperature control, two new chapters address the mounting of metallic mirrors and the alignment of reflective and catadioptric systems.The updated accompanying CD-ROM offers a convenient spreadsheet of the many equations that are helpful in solving problems encountered when mounting optics in instruments.

This book has been written for the students of B.Sc., Physics of various Indian Universities. The book covers the syllabi, prescribed by Madras, Bharathiyar, Bharathidhasan, Madurai Kamaraj and Manonmaniam Sundaranar Universities. SI System of Units has been used throughout the text. Proper care has been taken in dealing with the subject with modern outlook. A large number of questions and problems have been given at the end of each Chapter. Students should attempt to tackle them properly for better insight and understanding of the subject.

An accessible, introductory text explaining how to select, set up and use optical spectroscopy and optical microscopy techniques.