KrakenOS Textbook Cross-References

These pages connect five optical-engineering references to the equations, algorithms, and data structures in KrakenOS. They complement the KrakenOS Formula and Code Map: that page starts from general photonics, whereas this collection emphasizes practical lens design, image evaluation, tolerancing, ghost paths, stray light, and MTF measurement.

The maps are reading guides, not claims that KrakenOS implements each book. They deliberately distinguish a numerical implementation from a nearby visualization or workflow.

Match levels used in every map
Level	Meaning
Direct	KrakenOS evaluates the stated equation, or an algebraically equivalent vector, matrix, sampled, or Monte Carlo form.
Partial	The named physics is implemented with narrower assumptions or only some outputs from the textbook treatment are available.
Related	KrakenOS can illustrate the topic, but is not a solver for the complete mathematical model or measurement procedure.
Not modelled	No corresponding implementation was found in the reviewed source.

Important

Comparison conventions

Geometry and optical path are normally in millimetres; public trace and Gaussian-beam wavelengths are normally in micrometres. Catalog dispersion also expects micrometres. KrakenOS stores its legacy paraxial ray as \((u,y)^T\), while most books use \((y,u)^T\); use ParaxialMatrixTrace.system_matrix_abcd for the conventional order. Surface-radius, normal, conic, polarization-phase, and Fourier-transform conventions must be checked before comparing signs. Relative branch power is not automatically a calibrated watt, radiance, irradiance, or detector signal.

Choose a reference

Best route through the five books

Read Sasián for a compact path from lens geometry through exact tracing, evaluation, optimization, tolerancing, and ghosts.
Use Smith for deeper paraxial design, aberration interpretation, practical engineering, and the prescriptions already shipped with KrakenOS.
Use Fischer, Tadic-Galeb, and Yoder for system specification, Gaussian beams, sensors, polarization, tolerancing, optomechanics, and stray-light context.
Use Fest when building non-sequential scatter and ghost studies. Its radiometric bookkeeping also makes clear what KrakenOS does not yet calculate absolutely.
Use Boreman when converting a simulated or captured image into an MTF and when separating optical, detector-footprint, sampling, motion, and atmospheric contributions.

Source boundary

Section, equation, and printed-page references follow the attached editions. Equations are restated only as needed to explain code correspondence; problem statements, figures, and tables are not reproduced. The maps were prepared from the source tree and these local PDFs:

Robert E. Fischer, Biljana Tadic-Galeb, and Paul R. Yoder, Optical System Design, second edition.
Warren J. Smith, Modern Optical Engineering, fourth edition.
José Sasián, Introduction to Lens Design (2019).
Eric C. Fest, Stray Light Analysis and Control (2013).
Glenn D. Boreman, Modulation Transfer Function in Optical and Electro-Optical Systems, second edition (2021).