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.