Optical components are essential key elements in modern engineering and everyday life. The education of skilled personnel and specialists in the fields of theoretical and practical optics manufacturing is of essential importance for next-generation technologies. Against this background, this book provides the basis for the education and advanced training of precision and ophthalmic optics technicians, craftsmen, and foremen, and it is an extensive reference work for students, academics, optical designers or shop managers, and production engineers. It not only covers particularly used and applied machines, working materials, testing procedures, and machining steps for classical optics manufacturing, but it also addresses the production and specification of optical glasses as well as unconventional production techniques and novel approaches. Optics Manufacturing: Components and Systems furthermore covers the basics of light propagation and provides an overview on optical materials and components; presents an introduction and explanation of the necessary considerations and procedures for the initial definition of manufacturing tolerances and the relevant industrial standards for optics manufacturing; and addresses the production of micro optics, the assembly of opto-mechanical setups and possible manufacturing errors, and the impact of the resulting inaccuracies. In order to allow fast and clear access to the most essential information, each chapter ends with a short summary of the most important aspects, including an explanation of relevant equations, symbols, and abbreviations. For further reading, extensive lists of references are also provided. Finally, exercises on the covered basic principles of optics, approaches, and techniques of optics manufacturing-including their corresponding detailed solutions-are found in the appendix.

Optical components are essential key elements in modern engineering and everyday life. The education of skilled personnel and specialists in the fields of theoretical and practical optics manufacturing is of essential importance for next-generation technologies. Against this background, this book provides the basis for the education and advanced training of precision and ophthalmic optics technicians, craftsmen, and foremen, and it is an extensive reference work for students, academics, optical designers or shop managers, and production engineers. It not only covers particularly used and applied machines, working materials, testing procedures, and machining steps for classical optics manufacturing, but it also addresses the production and specification of optical glasses as well as unconventional production techniques and novel approaches. Optics Manufacturing: Components and Systems furthermore covers the basics of light propagation and provides an overview on optical materials and components; presents an introduction and explanation of the necessary considerations and procedures for the initial definition of manufacturing tolerances and the relevant industrial standards for optics manufacturing; and addresses the production of micro optics, the assembly of opto-mechanical setups and possible manufacturing errors, and the impact of the resulting inaccuracies. In order to allow fast and clear access to the most essential information, each chapter ends with a short summary of the most important aspects, including an explanation of relevant equations, symbols, and abbreviations. For further reading, extensive lists of references are also provided. Finally, exercises on the covered basic principles of optics, approaches, and techniques of optics manufacturing-including their corresponding detailed solutions-are found in the appendix.

Laser ablation is an established and versatile tool in modern manufacturing. At the same time, the basics and applications of laser ablation are the subject of numerous current research studies. Both facts demonstrate a huge interest in the topic as well as the enormous potential of this technique for a number of applications, such as laser materials processing and laser-based materials testing. This book addresses scientists, researchers and application engineers who work in the continuously growing field of laser ablation. It also acts as a reference book for professors, lecturers and students of corresponding study courses or professional training programs. Written by an international board of authors, this book provides an overview on laser sources used for laser ablation, the basics of laser beam guidance and shaping as well as laser-matter-interactions and the main underlying mechanisms of laser ablation. Different laser-based material processing and modification methods along with specific applications and recent developments of laser ablation techniques are presented. Laser-plasma-hybrid techniques, the laser-based fabrication of nanoparticles and heterostructures, and laser surface functionalisation are merely some of the methods aforementioned. Furthermore, several laser-induced effects are discussed against the background of relevant applications in microelectronics, photovoltaics, packaging and patterning.

Dieses Lehrbuch bietet einen kompakten und einfachen Einstieg in die Optik und unterstutzt Studierende der Physik, Technik und anderer angewandter Facher beim Lernen und Verstehen der Grundlagen und Anwendungen. Der Autor liefert einen anschaulichen UEberblick uber die essenziellen Teilgebiete der Optik und behandelt die grundlegenden Mechanismen und Prinzipien der Entstehung und Eigenschaften des Lichts, der Lichtausbreitung, Licht-Materie-Wechselwirkungen sowie der optischen Abbildung und Abbildungsfehler. Die Beschreibung von optischen Materialien, Komponenten sowie Laserquellen und Laserstrahlung rundet den Inhalt des Tutoriums ab. Durch zahlreiche Verstandnisfragen und Rechenaufgaben unterschiedlicher Schwierigkeitsgrade dient das Tutorium als wertvolle Lernhilfe zur Vertiefung der im Studium und in der Ausbildung vermittelten Lehrinhalte. Die ubersichtliche Zusammenfassung der zentralen Erkenntnisse in jedem Teilkapitel und eine Formelsammlung der jeweils wichtigsten mathematisch-physikalischen Zusammenhange helfen zusatzlich beim Lernen und bei der Prufungsvorbereitung. Daruber hinaus tragen Beispiele von Alltagsphanomenen, die sich auch in den UEbungsaufgaben wiederfinden, zur Veranschaulichung von grundlegenden optischen Gesetzmassigkeiten und Effekten bei. Im Rahmen dieser uberarbeiteten und aktualisierten 2. Auflage erhalten Leser des gedruckten Buches zusatzlich kostenlosen Zugang zu allen Verstandnisfragen uber die Springer Nature Flashcards-App. Mit Hilfe der digitalen Lernkarten samt ausfuhrlichen Loesungen kann man jederzeit und uberall das erlernte Wissen uberprufen.

Dieses Tutorium tragt mit seiner besonderen didaktischen Ausrichtung zum Verstandnis der Grundlagen der Optik bei. Der Autor behandelt die grundlegenden Mechanismen und Prinzipien der Entstehung und Eigenschaften des Lichts, der Lichtausbreitung, Licht-Materie-Wechselwirkungen sowie der optischen Abbildung und Abbildungsfehler. Die Beschreibung von optischen Materialien, Komponenten, Systeme und Gerate sowie Laserquellen und Laserstrahlung rundet den Inhalt des Tutoriums ab. Durch zahlreiche UEbungsaufgaben unterschiedlicher Schwierigkeitsgrade erhalt der Leser eine wertvolle Lernhilfe zur Vertiefung der im Studium und in der Ausbildung vermittelten Lehrinhalte. Die ubersichtliche Zusammenfassung der zentralen Erkenntnisse in jedem Teilkapitel und eine Formelsammlung der jeweils wichtigsten mathematisch-physikalischen Zusammenhange helfen zusatzlich beim Lernen und bei der Prufungsvorbereitung.