title: Optical design and testing: introduction.
abstract: Optical design and testing has numerous applications in industrial, military, consumer, and medical settings. Assembling a complete imaging or nonimage optical system may require the integration of optics, mechatronics, lighting technology, optimization, ray tracing, aberration analysis, image processing, tolerance compensation, and display rendering. This issue features original research ranging from the optical design of image and nonimage optical stimuli for human perception, optics applications, bio-optics applications, 3D display, solar energy system, opto-mechatronics to novel imaging or nonimage modalities in visible and infrared spectral imaging, modulation transfer function measurement, and innovative interferometry.
authors.forename: Chao-Wen
authors.initials: CW
authors.lastname: Liang
authors.forename: John
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Koshel
authors.forename: Jose
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Sasian
authors.forename: Robert
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Breault
authors.forename: Yongtian
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: Yi Chin
authors.initials: YC
authors.lastname: Fang
mesh_terms: D017076:Computer-Aided Design; D004867:Equipment Design / Q000379:methods*; D019544:Equipment Failure Analysis / Q000379:methods*; D055096:Optical Devices