
Basic Optics
Principles and Concepts
Description
Key Features
- Provides extensive and thoroughly exhaustive coverage of classical and modern optics
- Offers a lucid presentation in understandable language, rendering the abstract and difficult concepts of physics in an easy, accessible way
- Develops all concepts from elementary levels to advanced stages
- Includes a sequential description of all needed mathematical tools
- Relates fundamental concepts to areas of current research interest
Readership
Graduate students in physics, chemistry, materials science and biology with optics as either a general or a special subject; researchers in industry and teachers at university in optics, optical engineering, optoelectronics, and photonics
Table of Contents
1. Electromagnetic theory and optics
2. Foundations of ray optics
3. Ray optics: optical systems and optical imaging
4. Interference
5. Diffraction and scattering
6. Fourier optics
7. Optical coherence: statistical optics
8. Quantum optics
9. Nonlinear optics
Product details
- No. of pages: 1010
- Language: English
- Copyright: © Elsevier 2016
- Published: August 23, 2016
- Imprint: Elsevier
- Paperback ISBN: 9780128053577
- eBook ISBN: 9780128093078
About the Author
Avijit Lahiri
Affiliations and Expertise
Ratings and Reviews
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Alan C. Wed Feb 21 2018
basic optics
very through good reference to have in your library