Authors:Paul R. Yoder, Jr.,
Publisher: SPIE Publications
Keywords: monograph, vol, pm181, press, spie, optics, optical, instruments, mounting
Number of Pages: 782
Published: 2008-08-04
List price: $96.00
ISBN-10: 0819471291
ISBN-13: 9780819471291

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-RO