Publisher's Synopsis
This Field Guide provides optical designers, shop managers, opticians, and purchasers a concise reference explaining what the designer needs to know before making final choices and how to specify the components before they are ordered. It presents how conventional fabrication proceeds for representative components, alternative and emerging methods to optical fabrication, product evaluation, and the calculations used.
This guide is intended to serve several audiences and introduce each to the other. It provides designers and purchasers with some perspective and appreciation for the craft and business, the shop manager with a concise reference, the optician with a wider overview than one is likely to get within any single company, and the optical community at large with some insight into this fascinating and dynamic enterprise.
