A User’s Guide to Designing and Mounting Lenses and Mirrors

Abstract

This guidebook is a practitioner-oriented supplement to standard texts in optics and mechanical engineering. It reflects the author’s practical experience with the oftentimes troublesome aspects of effectively integrating optical components with mechanical hardware. Accordingly, its focus is on the techniques, assumptions, and levels of design sophistication needed for a wide variety of sizes and optical surface quality levels. It is intended to be a primer for engineers, designers, and draftsmen already familiar with some of the problems encountered in mounting optical components and who are responsible for developing components for high-energy laser systems.