Principles of optics : electromagnetic theory of propagation, interference and diffraction of light
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Principles of optics : electromagnetic theory of propagation, interference and diffraction of light
Cambridge University Press, 1997
6th (corrected) ed
- : pbk
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"First published 1959 by Pergamon Press Ltd, Oxford, Sixth edition 1980 ... reissued by Cambridge University Press 1997."--T.P. verso
Includes bibliographical references and indexes
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Principles of Optics is one of the classic science books of the twentieth century. It presents optics deductively as a system based on Maxwell's equations. It deals with those optical phenomena that can be described with the help of a continuous distribution of matter and provides a complete picture of our knowledge of optics as a whole. This standard reference continues to be invaluable to advanced undergraduates, graduate students and researchers working in any area of optics.
Table of Contents
- Historical introduction
- 1. Basic properties of the electromagnetic field
- 2. Electromagnetic potentials and polarization
- 3. Foundations of geometrical optics
- 4. Geometrical theory of optical imaging
- 5. Geometrical theory of aberrations
- 6. Image-forming instruments
- 7. Elements of the theory of interference and interferometers
- 8. Elements of the theory of diffraction
- 9. The diffraction theory of aberrations
- 10. Interference and diffraction with partially coherent light
- 11. Rigorous diffraction theory
- 12. Diffraction of light by ultrasonic waves
- 13. Optics of metals
- 14. Optics of crystals
- Appendices.
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