| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 273 pages) : illustrations (some color) |
| Contents |
Light as a wave -- One wave: plane or curved -- Two waves: interference -- Polarization -- Many waves I: Fresnel and Fraunhofer -- Many waves II: Fourier -- Optical phenomena in the time domain -- Coherence -- Optical imaging -- Spatial filtering -- Light propagation: beams and guides -- Vector light fields -- Light and matter -- A. Electromagnetic scalar and vector potentials -- B. Fourier transform toolkit -- C. Induced dipoles |
| Summary |
This textbook on optics introduces key concepts of wave optics and light propagation. The book highlights topics in contemporary optics such as propagation, dispersion and apodisation. The principles are applied through worked examples, and the text is copiously illustrated with more than 240 figures and 200 end-of-chapter exercises |
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This book is primarily intended to be used in optics teaching from undergraduate to graduate level. It is assumed that an elementary course on optics has previously been studied, but all the key concepts of wave optics and light propagation are introduced where needed, and illustrated graphically. A recurring theme is that simple building blocks such as plane and spherical waves can be summed to construct useful solutions. Fourier methods and the angular-spectrum approach are used extensively, especially to provide a unified approach to Fraunhofer and Fresnel diffraction. Particular attention is paid to analysing topics in contemporary optics--propagation, dispersion, laser beams and waveguides, apodization, tightly focused vector fields, unconventional polarization states, and light-matter interactions |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-266) and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from digital title page (Oxford Scholarship online, viewed September 4, 2020) |
| Subject |
Fourier transform optics.
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Fresnel lenses.
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Geometrical optics.
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Optics -- Mathematical models
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Fourier analysis.
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Light -- Transmission.
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Wave theory of light.
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Fresnel lenses.
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SCIENCE -- Physics -- Optics & Light.
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Fourier analysis
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Light -- Transmission
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Wave theory of light
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Fourier transform optics
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Fresnel lenses
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Geometrical optics
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Optics -- Mathematical models
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Hughes, Ifan, 1968- author.
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| ISBN |
9780191090370 |
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0191090379 |
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9780191828980 |
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019182898X |
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