Modern Classical Optics

Erscheinungsjahr 2003
ISBN: 978-0-19-859965-4
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 416 Seiten, Format (B × H): 189 mm x 245 mm, Gewicht: 788 g

Autoren/Hrsg.

Brooker, Geoffrey

Fachgebiete

• Naturwissenschaften Physik Thermodynamik Plasmaphysik
• Naturwissenschaften Physik Thermodynamik Festkörperphysik, Kondensierte Materie
• Naturwissenschaften Physik Physik Allgemein
• Naturwissenschaften Physik Elektromagnetismus Optik
• Technische Wissenschaften Technik Allgemein Physik, Chemie für Ingenieure
• Naturwissenschaften Physik Quantenphysik Hochenergiephysik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- 1: Electromagnetism and basic optics

- 2: Fourier series and Fourier transforms

- 3: Diffraction

- 4: Diffraction gratings

- 5: The Fabry-Perot

- 6: Thin films

- 7: Ray matrices and Gaussian beams

- 8: Optical cavities

- 9: Coherence: qualitative

- 10: Coherence: correlation functions

- 11: Optical practicalities: étendue, interferometry, fringe localization

- 12: Image formation: diffraction theory

- 13: Holography

- 14: Optical fibres

- 15: Polarization

- 16: Two modern optical devices

Über Autor(innen)

G.A.Brooker, University Lecturer in the Department of Physics, Oxford University; Fellow and Tutor of Wadham College, Oxford. Held a Post-doctoral Fellowship at Harvard University in the years 1964-67 working in the then-new field of laser physics, followed by a Post-doctoral Fellowship in the Department of Physics, Oxford from 1967-69 working on measurements of electro-optic coefficients of transparent crystals and a Fellowship by Special Election at Wadham College, Oxford from 1969-70.