Infrared Technology 1988-1998

The 300 papers on this fully searchable CD ROM span 10 years of infrared technology. Intended for the practicing engineer, rather than a historical review. PDF format; browsable.
Table of Contents
Editor: Glenn D. Boreman
SPIE Vol. CD05

International Conferences on Optical Fiber Sensors 1983-1997

Copublished by SPIE, OSA, and LEOS The complete collection of OFS conference proceedings (1,287 technical papers) is available on this easy-to-use CD-ROM.
Table of Contents (360K)
Introduction .
SPIE Vol. CDP01

Lens Design

This searchable CD-ROM contains 300 papers on key developments in modern lens design, chosen for their usefulness to optical engineers and students. Tutorial collection included.
Table of Contents (200K)
Introduction
Editor: Donald C. O'Shea
SPIE Vol. CDP02

Automatic Target Recognition

This two-disk set contains a landmark selection of more than 900 SPIE papers covering all aspects of modern automatic and machine-assisted target and object recognition technology.
Table of Contents:
Disk 1 (221K)
Disk 2 (176K)
Editor: Firooz A. Sadjadi
SPIE Vol. CDP06

Thermal Sensing and Imaging, 1980-1999

This CD-ROM contains 381 papers by world-class thermographers, selected from Thermosense conference proceedings published by SPIE since 1980. Topical sections: Predictive maintenance and other selected papers; thermal nondestructive testing and materials evaluation.
Table of Contents (266K)
Introduction (60K)
Editors: John R. Snell, Douglas D. Burleigh
SPIE Vol. CDP07

Laser-Induced Damage in Optical Materials

Set of 3 CD-ROMs containing more than1,500 published papers from the Boulder Damage Symposium, founded in 1969. Papers grouped into four topical categories: Materials and Measurements; Surfaces and Mirrors; Thin Films; and Fundamental Mechanisms.
Table of Contents:
1969-1978 (79K)
1979-1988 (162K)
1989-1998 (224K)
SPIE Vol. CD08

Introduction to Optical System Design & Engineering

Robert E. Fischer is president of OPTICS 1, Inc. of Westlake Village, CA.


This course provides a broad and useful background on the design and engineering of imaging optical systems, with a special emphasis placed on providing a clear and easy-to-understand discussion of optical design and engineering fundamentals. All aspects of the design and engineering of imaging optical systems for both visible applications as well as the thermal IR and UV are considered.

This course will show:

• What imaging optical systems are all about
• The nature of image degrading aberrations and how we eliminate them
• Diffraction and what diffraction-limited imagery is
• How we design and evaluate the performance of optical systems
• How refractive or lens systems relate to reflective or mirror systems
and the relative merits of each
• The all-important role of the basic design configuration
• How we design imaging optical systems for the thermal infrared
• How to tolerance an optical system
• Important fabrication, testing, and producibility issues for the design engineer
• Computer aided lens design programs and how we use them
• Design examples using a large computer program.