Optics (Paperback)

Optics

Accurate, authoritative, and comprehensive, Optics, Fourth Edition has been revised to provide students with the most up-to-date coverage of optics. The market leader for over a decade, this text provides a balance of theory and instrumentation, while also including the necessary classical background. The writing style is lively and accessible.

Salient Features

• NEW AND UPDATED! New illustrations and photos, as well as revised art, are included throughout enhancing the already outstanding visual pedagogy of this textbook.

• UPDATED! Chapter 3 Electromagnetic Theory, Photons, and Light has been fully revised and updated to reflect advances in the field.

• The text employs a careful balance of theory and instrumentation and provides students with the necessary classical background.

• Coherence is introduced early on in the text and leads immediately into a discussion of Young's Experiments. To underscore the quantum mechanical nature of interference, many optical interference photos are accompanied by equivalent material particle fringe patterns.

Table Of Contents

• A Brief History.

• Wave Motion.

• The Propagation of Light.

• Geometrical Optics.

• More on Geometrical Optics.

• The Superposition of Waves.

• Polarization.

• Interference.

• Diffraction.

• Fourier Optics.

• Basics of Coherence Theory.

• Modern Optics: Lasers and Other Topics.