Sources and Further Reading

The book uses the following primary references for stable optical principles, material data, numerical methods, and version-specific software behavior.

Software and validation

• Optiland 0.6.0 on PyPI — pinned package metadata and Python requirements.
• Optiland documentation — feature orientation; the live documentation is not the versioned API contract for this book.
• The repository's tests and generated figures — manuscript-specific numerical evidence.

Geometrical optics and lens design

• Warren J. Smith, Modern Optical Engineering.
• Warren J. Smith, Modern Lens Design.
• Rudolf Kingslake and R. Barry Johnson, Lens Design Fundamentals.
• John E. Greivenkamp, Field Guide to Geometrical Optics.

Fourier optics and image quality

• Joseph W. Goodman, Introduction to Fourier Optics.
• Max Born and Emil Wolf, Principles of Optics.
• Virendra N. Mahajan, Optical Imaging and Aberrations.

Materials and numerical computation

• SCHOTT optical glass data.
• Mikhail N. Polyanskiy, “Refractiveindex.info database of optical constants,” Scientific Data 11, 94 (2024).
• refractiveindex.info.
• Jorge Nocedal and Stephen J. Wright, Numerical Optimization.
• PyTorch documentation.