Description
This introductory text is a reader friendly treatment of geometrical and physical optics emphasizing problems and solved examples with detailed analysis and helpful commentary. The authors are seasoned educators with decades of experience teaching optics. Their approach is to gradually present mathematics explaining the physical concepts. It covers ray tracing to the wave nature of light, and introduces Maxwell’s equations in an organic fashion. The text then moves on to explains how to analyze simple optical systems such as spectacles for improving vision, microscopes, and telescopes, while also being exposed to contemporary research topics.
Ajawad I. Haija is a professor of physics at Indiana University of Pennsylvania.
M. Z. Numan is professor and chair of the department of physics at Indiana University of Pennsylvania.
W. Larry Freeman is Emeritus Professor of Physics at Indiana University of Pennsylvania.
Table of Contents
Series Preface: Textbook Series in Physical Sciences
Preface
Acknowledgments
Authors
Section I — Introduction
Chapter 1. Light: Its Nature and History of Study
Section II — Geometrical Optics of Light
Chapter 2. Reflection and Refraction
Chapter 3. Paraxial Rays and Lenses
Chapter 4. Matrix Optics for Paraxial Rays
Section III — Wave Optics
Chapter 5. Light Waves, Properties, and Propagation
Chapter 6. Light Waves, Coherence, Superposition, and Interference
Chapter 7. Double and Multiple-Beam Interference
Chapter 8. Diffraction I: Fraunhofer Diffraction
Chapter 9. Diffraction II: Fresnel Diffraction
Chapter 10. Optics of Multilayer Systems
Chapter 11. Polarization
Chapter 12. Fourier Optics
Chapter 13. Photonics
Appendix A: Trigonometry
Appendix B: Complex Numbers
Appendix C: Mathematical Operators—Cartesian and Spherical Coordinates
Appendix D: Matrices
Appendix E: Physical Constants
Appendix F: Examples on Fresnel Diffraction Done on Mathematica
Appendix G: Solutions of Selected Examples from Chapter 10 Using Excel
Bibliography
Index
