Computer Design of Diffractive Optics

Preface

In 2000, the publishing house Fizmatlit, Moscow, published the book Methods of Computer Optics, translated into English in 2002 and published by John Wiley & Sons, New York. A second, revised edition was published in 2003, which shows the interest from readers.

During this period, the main authors of the first edition expressed a critical approach to the presentation of some of the earlier chapters written by them and decided to improve them. Secondly, a lot of new research results in the field of electromagnetic methods of analysis and synthesis of diffractive optical elements with greater functionality and applications in laser systems appeared.

These reasons have prompted the authors to write a new book, based on the material of ...