About the BookThis book provides accounts of non-quantum optical phenomena and of instruments and technology based on them. While covering the conventional topics such as diffraction, coherence, thin films and holography, the book also extends to the less conventional topics : Gaussian beams and laser cavities (supporting laser physics), etendue, cd readers and confocal microscopes. Even the conventional material is given a fresh presentation, with standard calculations tidied, common errors avoided, and insightful connections made with other parts of physics. Problems offer opportunities for testing the reader?s basic understanding, taking a careful route through reasoning, and checking orders, of magnitude. In addition, many of the problems contain exploratory and critical material, such as investigating possible alternative approaches, asking searching questions about fundamentals, or solving apparent paradoxes.Contents :-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: ?tendue, interferometry, fringe localization 12. Image formation: diffraction theory 13. Holography 14. Optical fibres 15. Polarization 16. Two modern optical devices Notes on Selected TopicsBibliographyIndex.About the Author :-Geoffrey Brooker is University Lecturer in Physics at the University of Oxford and Fellow of Wadham College, Oxford.
Table of Contents1. 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: ?tendue, interferometry, fringe localization 12. Image formation: diffraction theory 13. Holography 14. Optical fibres 15. Polarization 16. Two modern optical devices Notes on Selected TopicsBibliographyIndex.About the Author :-Geoffrey Brooker is University Lecturer in Physics at the University of Oxford and Fellow of Wadham College, Oxford.