Rudolf Kingslake (1903-2003) was a founding faculty member of the Institute of Optics at The University of Rochester (1929) and remained teaching until 1983. Concurrently, in 1937 he became head of the lens design department at Eastman Kodak until his retirement in 1969. Dr. Kingslake published numerous papers, books, and was awarded many patents. He was a Fellow of SPIE and OSA, and an OSA President (1947-48). He was awarded the Progress Medal from SMPTE (1978), the Frederic Ives Medal (1973), and the Gold Medal of SPIE (1980). R. Barry Johnson has been involved for over 50 years in lens design, optical systems design, and electro-optical systems engineering. He has been a faculty member at three academic institutions engaged in optics education and research, co-founder of the Center for Applied Optics at the University of Alabama in Huntsville, employed by a number of companies, and provided consulting services. Dr. Johnson is an SPIE Fellow and Honorary Member, OSA Fellow, Institute of Physics Fellow, and a Past SPIE President (1987). He published numerous papers, several books, has been awarded many patents, and is the Institute of Physics Book Series Editor for Emerging Technologies in Optics and Photonics. Dr. Johnson was founder and Chairman of the SPIE Lens Design Working Group (1988-2002), and a perennial chair of the annual SPIE Current Developments in Lens Design and Optical Engineering Conference.
'I already use this book as a reference. With the added changes and more modern nomenclature, I would use it as the required text. It covers all the topics of optical design that need to be considered.'