Elements of Modern Optical Design (Wiley Series in Pure and Applied Optics)

This book is an excellent intermediate text on the topic of optical design. Many people will have a course that includes Hecht for an overview on optics. That book is not very helpful for more practical issues because it has to cover so many basic concepts. O'Shea is, on the otherhand, focused on practical design steps and includes many examples with successive chapters building on previous. I have had to retrain myself on this material and the book is fantastic. I only wish there were solutions somewhere to check my work. Even so: 5 stars!

This book is pretty good.There are no answers to the homework problems, so it is hard to tell if you have mastered the concepts when used as self-study.It would be nice if it went into a little more depth in places.While it shows the far-field spot patterns (point-spread functions), it doesn't describe the near-field phase can lead to such PSF's even for on-axis objects.

Fine follow up on the worksof Kingsake. Not as comprehensive as the Mil Spec on system design and through put. That document is, unfortunately, no longer available and this modern text does not cover the subject adequately.