A Practical Guide to Experimental Geometrical Optics

Yuriy A. Garbovskiy is Lab Manager of the BioFrontiers Center at the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs. His research interests include the physics of liquid crystals and nanomaterials. He is a Senior Member of the Optical Society of America. Anatoliy V. Glushchenko is Professor of Physics at the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs and Director of the Center for Advanced Technologies and Optical Materials. He has received numerous awards in recognition of his research, including Inventor of the Year Award (University of Colorado, 2007), and the Thomas Jefferson Award (University of Colorado, 2013).

Preface; 1. Markets of optical materials, components, accessories, light sources and detectors; 2. Introduction to optical experiments: light producing, light managing, light detection and measuring; 3. Light detectors based on semiconductors: photoresistors, photodiodes in a photo-galvanic regime. Principles of operation and measurements; 4. Linear light detectors based on photodiodes; 5. Basic laws of geometrical optics: experimental verification; 6. Converging and diverging thin lenses; 7. Thick lenses; 8. Lens systems; 9. Simple optical instruments I: the eye and the magnifier, eyepieces and telescopes; 10. Simple optical instruments II: light illuminators and microscope; 11. Spherical mirrors; 12. Introduction to optical aberrations; 13. Elements of optical radiometry; 14. Cylindrical lenses and vials; 15. Methods of geometrical optics to measure refractive index; 16. Dispersion of light and prism spectroscope; 17. Elements of computer aided optical design; Index.