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.
