Insight into optics
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Insight into optics
J.Wiley, c1991
- : pbk
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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ISBN 9780471927693
Description
Covering the basics of optics at undergraduate level, this book assumes a modest mathematical background and it should be used in parallel with the usual mathematics courses needed by physicists and engineers. Topics covered include; the behaviour of light-waves in fibres, guided-wave structures, non-linear materials, the principles underlying laser action, and laser characteristics and applications. There are well chosen examples to illustrate the more difficult ideas introduced in the text. This text on optics starts at an elementary level and should be suitable for students whose previous grounding in physics is limited to that likely to be covered in an integrated science course. It is however assumed that the student will be following, concurrently with the optics course, an appropriate course of mathematics. Thus familiarity with complex numbers and vectors will be assumed. Much of the material in the first nine chapters lays the foundations for what follows. Chapters 10-13 cover topics whose importance has increased enormously since the arrival of the laser.
Chapter 14 heralds the impending takeover of the communication field from electrons to photons and Chapter 18 deals with the classical ideas of non-linear optics and introduces the developments resulting, from the availability of the laser. Three chapters on various aspects of optical measurements follow illustrating the very wide range of types of measurement which are possible using optical means. Chapter 19 reveals how one goes beyond the levels of subjective judgment in a scientific approach to the question of assessment.
Table of Contents
- General Background
- Ray Optics (1): Reflection and Refraction
- Ray Optics (2): Paraxial Rays
- Wave Theory (1) - Interference
- Wave Theory (2) - Wave Groups
- Diffraction
- Polarised Light
- Electromagnetic Theory of Dielectric Media
- Electromagnetic Theory of Absorptive Materials
- Scattering of Light
- Electro- and Magneto-optics
- Introduction of Radiation and Matter
- Holography
- Waveguides, Fibres and Optical Communication
- Non-linear Optics
- Radiometry and Photometry
- Interferometry
- Optical Instruments
- The Assessment of Optical Images
- Lasers
- Temporal Analysis - Photon Correlation
- The Velocity of Light and Relativistic Optics
- The Quantum Theory of Light
- The Limitations of Optical Experiments
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: pbk ISBN 9780471929017
Description
The changes taking place in the educational scene are such that departments of physics will in due course be dealing with incoming students with a more limited experience of their subject than has been the case in the past. This text on optics starts at an elementary level and should be suitable for students whose previous grounding in physics is limited to that likely to be covered in an integrated science course. It is however assumed that the student will be following, concurrently with the optics course, an appropriate course of mathematics. Thus familiarity with complex numbers and vectors will be assumed. Much of the material in the first nine chapters lays the foundations for what follows. Chapters 10-13 cover topics whose importance has increased enormously since the arrival of the laser. Chapter 14 heralds the impending takeover of the communication field from electrons to photons and Chapter 18 deals with the classical ideas of non-linear optics and introduces the developments resulting, from the availability of the laser.
Three chapters on various aspects of optical measurements follow illustrating the very wide range of types of measurement which are possible using optical means. Chapter 19 reveals how one goes beyond the levels of subjective judgment in a scientific approach to the question of assessment.
Table of Contents
- General background
- ray optics - reflection and refraction and paraxial rays
- wave theory - interference and wave groups
- diffraction
- polarized light
- electromagnetic theory of di-electric media
- electromagnetic theory of absorptive materials
- scattering of light
- electro- and magneto-optics
- interaction of radiation and matter
- holography
- waveguides, fibres and optical communication
- non-linear optics
- radiometry and photometry
- interferometry
- optical instruments
- the assessment of optical images
- lasers
- temperal analysis - photon correlation
- the velocity of light and relativistic optics
- the quantum theory of light
- the limitations of optical experiments.
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