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1OPTICS for Optometry Students
2OPTICS for Optometry Students
PC Mukherjee Retired Department of Physics Alipurduar College (University of North Bengal) West Bengal India Foreword Ajoy Chakraborty
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4In Memory of
My Reverent Parents
Late Nirmal Kumar Mukherjee
and
Late Kanakprava Mukherjee
5Foreword
It is a pleasure to get an opportunity to write a few words about the book entitled, Optics for Optometry Students authored by Prof PC Mukherjee. It is only recently that optometry has been introduced in our academic curriculum as a separate subject of specialisation in technology. Different optical instruments developed as visual aids; and accurate measurements of parameters relating to normal and defective human vision have added new dimensions to eye-care techniques. In view of the present development of several optical techniques used in medical care of eyes, the students of optometry must have reasonably good knowledge in different phenomena relating to optics.
As far as I know, no book has yet been published covering the syllabus on optics prescribed for the students of optometry. The students of optometry should also have a good background in physiological optics along with reasonably good knowledge in geometrical and physical optics. Physicists are usually conversant with the geometrical and physical properties of light but they do not feel at home in matters relating to physiology of eye and the various defects of vision. Prof Mukherjee is evidently an exception to this general rule. He has the rare expertise in all the topics dealt with in this book including physiology of vision.
The book is perhaps first of its kind. Thus, it will meet a long-standing demand for a treatise on this subject. The contents of the book ensure a good coverage and their treatment made by Prof Mukherjee is commanding.
I am confident that the students and teachers of Optometry will welcome the publication of this book. Having gone through some of the printed formats of the book, I can unhesitatingly say that this book will amply benefit the students of optometry. I find the book very lucid and well-written. Prof Mukherjee knows his subject quite well and is capable of expressing difficult topics in a simple way without impairing the physical rigor.
The book consists of thirty-two chapters. The first ten chapters of the book deals with different aspects of geometrical optics starting right from Fermat's principle and its applications for derivation of several useful results in geometrical optics. Chapters from eleven to twenty deal with different phenomena relating to physical optics. Chapter 21 deals with Einstein's A, B coefficients in connection with spontaneous and stimulated radiation. Chapter 23 of the book deals with the principle and construction of laser. The next chapter deals with different photometric quantities and 6photometric instruments used for measuring these quantities. The topics relating to eye-and-vision and the materials used for making spectacles and contact lenses have been dealt with at the end of the book.
I thank Prof Mukherjee on behalf of the teachers' community for taking this pain of writing such a useful book for the students of optometry. I do not have any doubt that the book will be warmly accepted by the teachers and the students for whom it is written.
Ajoy Chakraborty
Professor
Department of Applied Optics and Photonics
Calcutta University
Kolkata, West Bengal
India
7Preface
Optometry is a rather recent addition to our academic curricula but in a short while, it has built up a position of importance of its own. This is because the ever increasing pollution in all the different spheres of life are enhancing the problems of eye-care and eye-cure all the more. The increased inflow of ultraviolet radiations with thinning up of the protective ozone layer in the upper atmosphere due to various causes, both natural and man-made, also have its harmful effect on the human eyes. Again people of today are becoming more careful and sentient about the protection and treatment of their eyes. In this context the optometrists are being recognised as the most valuable members of today's health care system, who can deliver eye-care services in a very efficient manner.
Now, the students of optometry need a thorough knowledge of optics—Geometrical, physical and physiological.
In this book, I have tried to incorporate the essentials of the subject matter keeping in view the demands and requirements of the learners. I will consider it my best reward if this book comes to any real help for them.
Most of the chapters of this book, in fact, are the compilation of class lectures of my over thirty years of teaching life and as such I acknowledge my indebtedness to different textbooks which I have freely consulted.
I am thankful to all those who have helped me and encouraged me in writing this book.
I am particularly thankful to Dr (Mrs) Sunandita Nath (Bhattacharya), Department of Anatomy, National Medical College and Hospital, Kolkata, who has shown keen interest in this book of mine and supplied me some specific materials regarding construction and function of the eyeball.
The analytical and most imbuing ‘Foreword’ by Prof Ajoy Chakraborty, Department of Applied Optics and Photonics, Calcutta University, is also overwhelmingly appreciative.
Finally, I express my heartfelt thanks and gratitude to Jaypee Brothers Medical Publishers (P) Ltd, New Delhi for bringing out this book of mine.
Any suggestion for improvement of the book will be most thankfully accepted.
PC Mukherjee