SPIE eBooks

Welcome to SPIE eBooks, the new online source for three valuable series of SPIE Press titles in optics and photonics:

• SPIE Press Monographs are authoritative reference books, textbooks, and handbooks.
• Tutorial Texts cover fundamental and emerging topics at introductory and intermediate levels.
• Field Guides present key information that students and practicing engineers and scientists need in a concise format.

SPIE eBooks launched with 120 books in January 2010; 15 to 20 new titles and editions will be added during the year. As new books are published, they will be available in SPIE eBooks first.

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Featured Titles

The Design of Plastic Optical Systems

Author(s): Michael P. Schaub

The Art of Radiometry

Author(s): James M. Palmer, Barbara G. Grant

Field Guide to Lasers

Author(s): Rüdiger Paschotta

Computed Tomography, Second Edition: Principles, Design, Artifacts, and Recent Advances

Edition: Second

Author(s): Jiang Hsieh

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Open access eBook chapters

Explore the full functionality of SPIE eBooks with open access chapters from the following volumes:

• Advanced Optics Using Aspherical Elements
• Introduction to Imaging Spectrometers
• Field Guide to Optical Lithography