Optics / by W.H.A. Fincham.
W. H. A. Fincham
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Optics
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Optical technology is essential to communications and medical technology. K.K. Sharma has written a comprehensive volume on optics. Beginning with introductory ideas and equations, Sharma takes the reader through the world of optics detailing problems encountered, advanced subjects, and actual applications. Elegantly written, this book rigorously examines optics with over 300 illustrations and several problems in each chapter. The book begins with light propagation in anisotropic media considered much later in most books. Sharma has started with this because it provides a more general and beau
| Title |
Optics : principles and applications / K.K. Sharma. |
|---|---|
| Edition |
1st edition. |
| Publisher |
Amsterdam Boston : Academic Press |
| Creation Date |
c2006 |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record. Includes bibliographical references and index. English |
| Content |
Front cover Title page Copyright page Table of contents Preface Acknowledgements 1 Light Waves 1.1 INTRODUCTION 1.2 MAXWELL'S EQUATIONS 1.3 THE WAVE EQUATION 1.3.1 Plane Wave Solution 1.3.2 Spherical and Cylindrical Wave Solutions 1.3.3 Beam-Like Solutions 1.4 HOMOGENEOUS AND INHOMOGENEOUS WAVES 1.5 ENERGY DENSITY AND POYNTING VECTOR 1.6 BOUNDARY CONDITIONS 1.6.1 Continuity of the Normal Components 1.6.2 Continuity of the Tangential Components 1.7 REFLECTION AND TRANSMISSION AT A BOUNDARY 1.7.1 External Reflections 1.7.1.1 Brewster Angle 1.7.2 Reflectance and Transmittance1.7.3 Internal Reflections 1.7.3.1 Fresnel Rhomb 1.7.4 Frustrated Total Internal Reflection 1.7.5 Reflection from a Metallic Surface 1.8 PASSAGE OF LIGHT THROUGH A PRISM 1.9 DISPERSION 1.9.1 Dispersion in Dilute Gases 1.9.2 Dispersion in Dense Media 1.9.3 Group and Signal Velocities 1.10 PROPAGATION OF LIGHT IN ANISOTROPIC MEDIA 1.10.1 Fresnel Equation 1.10.2 Geometrical Constructions 1.10.2.1 Index Ellipsoid 1.10.2.2 Normal Surface 1.10.3 Uniaxial Crystals 1.10.4 Biaxial Crystals 1.10.5 Double Refraction 1.10.6 Polarizing Prisms 1.11 REFERENCES1.12 PROBLEMS 2 Coherence of Light Waves 2.1 POLYCHROMATIC LIGHT 2.1.1 Quasi-monochromatic Light 2.2 PARTIALLY COHERENT LIGHT 2.2.1 Spatial and Temporal Coherence 2.3 COMPLEX COHERENCE FUNCTIONS 2.3.1 Stationary and Time-Averaged Fields 2.3.2 Intensity of Polychromatic Light 2.4 SELF COHERENCE 2.4.1 Complex Degree of Self Coherence 2.4.2 Fourier Transform Spectroscopy 2.5 MUTUAL COHERENCE 2.5.1 Complex Degree of Mutual Coherence 2.5.2 Coherence of Light from an Extended Source 2.5.3 Michelson Stellar Interferometer 2.6 VAN CITTERT-ZERNIKE THEOREM 2.6.1 Incoherent Quasi-monochromatic Source of Circular Cross-Section2.6.2 Area of Coherence 2.7 INTENSITY CORRELATIONS 2.7.1 Hanbury Brown and Twiss Experiment 2.7.2 Photon Statistics 2.8 REFERENCES 2.9 PROBLEMS 3 Polarization of Light Waves 3.1 STATES OF POLARIZATION 3.1.1 Linear Polarization 3.1.2 Elliptical and Circular Polarizations 3.1.3 Helicity of Light Waves 3.2 THE POLARIZATION ELLIPSE 3.3 MATRIX REPRESENTATION OF POLARIZATION STATES 3.3.1 The Jones Vectors 3.3.1.1 Linearly Polarized Light 3.3.1.2 Circularly Polarized Light 3.3.1.3 Elliptically Polarized Light 3.3.1.4 Orthogonality of Jones Vectors3.3.2 Jones Matrices for Linear Optical Devices 3.3.2.1 Linear Polarizers 3.3.2.2 Phase Retarders 3.3.2.3 Quarter-Wave Plate 3.3.2.4 Half-Wave Plate 3.4 THE STOKES PARAMETERS 3.4.1 Monochromatic Light 3.4.2 Quasi-monochromatic Light 3.4.3 Completely Unpolarized Light 3.4.4 Mixture of Mutually Incoherent Light Fields 3.4.5 Geometrical Interpretation of Stokes Parameters 3.5 THE POINCARÉ SPHERE 3.6 MUELLER MATRICES 3.6.1 Linear Polarizer 3.6.2 Phase Retarder 3.7 THE COHERENCY MATRIX 3.8 PANCHARATNAM THEOREM 3.9 REFERENCES 3.10 PROBLEMS 4 Geometrical Optics |
| Extent |
1 online resource (657 p.) |
| Language |
English |
| National Library system number |
997010710528905171 |
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