Optics
by Eugene Hecht · first published 1974
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Undergraduate optics textbook explaining reflection, transmission, and refraction through a unifying scattering view. A common reference on optical engineers' shelves, suited to students and practitioners wanting depth.
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…by Richardson Gratings: http://gratings.newport.com/information/handbook/handbook.as... For a textbook, this one is pretty good: http://www.amazon.com/Introduction-Spectroscopy-Donald-L-Pav... For optics, Hecht is the classic text: http://www.amazon.com/Optics-4th-Edition-Eugene-Hecht/dp/080... I'd suggest Keating though, since it is a more comprehensive overview and includes things like the human visual…
on “Public Lab DIY Spectrometry Kit” ↗Bit late to the party, but this person is very much correct. I also do BMI work and optics is undoubtedly the future for neuroscience. The optics book you want to get is Hecht: https://www.amazon.com/Optics-5th-Eugene-Hecht/dp/0133977226 That's a good intro into real optics. It's much more…
on “My self-study plan for electrical engineering” ↗I can recommend Hecht’s Optics textbook for this. I found it at my local library. I have had a number of electromagnetics courses over my life and none explained the unifying scattering principles of reflection, transmission, and…
on “Why are some things darker when wet?” ↗Optics by Eugene Hecht is a fantastic reference to start with. It's a bit expensive, but you can find used copies if you look around a little bit.
on “Opticsim.jl: Optical Simulation Software” ↗Optics - Eugene Hecht Undergraduate level reference text that I see in almost every optical engineer's office. It's dense, but it's thorough. https://edisciplinas.usp.br/pluginfile.php/5054148/mod_resou...
on “Ray Optics Simulator” ↗…make that implicit you'd still need to give the network the steradians, focal length, circle of confusion, etc. etc. etc. that you want your image to use. You'd need to understand everything in Hecht's Optics to tweak all the parameters of an AI generated image.
on “Stable Diffusion is a big deal” ↗