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1 online resource : illustrations |
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Includes bibliographical references. |
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Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed September 8, 2016). |
| Summary |
Basic Optics: Principles and Concepts addresses in great details the basic principles of the science of optics, and their related concepts. The book provides a lucid and coherent presentation of an extensive range of concepts from the field of optics, which is of central relevance to several broad areas of science including physics, chemistry, and biology. With its extensive range of discourse, the book's content arms scientists and students with knowledge of the essential concepts of classical and modern optics. It can be used as a reference book and also as a supplementary text by students at the college and university levels and will, at the same time, be of considerable use to researchers and teachers. The book is composed of nine chapters and includes a great deal of material not covered in many of the more well-known textbooks on the subject. The science of optics has undergone major changes in the last fifty years due to developments in the areas of the optics of metamaterials, Fourier optics, statistical optics, quantum optics, and nonlinear optics, all of which find their places in the book, with a clear presentation of their basic principles. Even the more traditional areas of ray optics and wave optics are elaborated within the framework of electromagnetic theory, at a level more fundamental than what one finds in many of the currently available textbooks. Thus, the eikonal approximation leading to ray optics, the Lagrangian and Hamiltonian formulations of ray optics, the quantum theoretic interpretation of interference, the vector and dyadic diffraction theories, the geometrical theory of diffraction, and similar other topics of basic relevance are presented in clear terms. The presentation is lucid and elegant, capturing the essential magic and charm of physics. All this taken together makes the book a unique text, of major contemporary relevance, in the field of optics. Avijit Lahiri is a well known researcher, teacher, and author, with publications in several areas of physics, and with a broad range of current interests including physics and the philosophy of science. |
| Contents |
Front Cover; Basic Optics: Principles and Concepts; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1: Electromagnetic Theory and Optics; 1.1 Introduction; 1.2 Maxwell's Equations in Material Media and in Free Space; 1.2.1 Electromagnetic Field Variables; 1.2.1.1 Digression: The naming of the field variables; 1.2.1.2 Digression: The naming of the field variables and their space-time variations in optics; 1.2.2 Maxwell's Equations; 1.2.3 Material Media and the Constitutive Relations; 1.2.3.1 Linear media; Digression: tensors and tensor fields; 1.2.3.2 Nonlinear media. |
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1.2.4 Integral Form of Maxwell's Equations1.2.5 Boundary Conditions Across a Surface; 1.2.6 The Electromagnetic Field in Free Space; 1.2.7 Microscopic and Macroscopic Variables for a Material Medium; 1.3 Digression: Vector Differential Operators; 1.3.1 Curvilinear Coordinates; 1.3.2 The Differential Operators; 1.4 Electromagnetic Potentials; 1.4.1 Gauge Transformations; 1.4.2 The Lorentz Gauge and the Inhomogeneous Wave Equation; 1.4.3 The Homogeneous Wave Equation in a Source-Free Region; 1.5 The Hertz Vector Representation; 1.6 The Principle of Superposition; 1.7 The Complex Representation. |
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1.8 Energy Density and Energy Flux1.8.1 Energy Density; 1.8.2 Poynting's Theorem: The Poynting Vector; 1.8.3 Intensity at a Point; 1.9 Optical Fields: An Overview; 1.10 The Uniqueness Theorem; 1.11 Simple Solutions to Maxwell's Equations; 1.11.1 Overview; 1.11.2 Harmonic Time Dependence; 1.11.2.1 Fictitious magnetic charges and currents; 1.11.2.2 The Helmholtz equations; 1.12 The Monochromatic Plane Wave; 1.12.1 Monochromatic Plane Waves in Free Space; 1.12.2 Plane Waves in an Isotropic Dielectric; 1.12.3 Energy Density and Intensity for a Monochromatic Plane Wave. |
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1.13 States of Polarization of a Plane Wave1.13.1 Linear, Circular, and Elliptic Polarization; 1.13.2 States of Polarization: Summary; 1.13.3 Intensity of a Polarized Plane Wave; 1.13.4 Polarized and Unpolarized Waves; 1.14 Reflection and Refraction at a Planar Interface; 1.14.1 The Fields and the Boundary Conditions; 1.14.2 The Laws of Reflection and Refraction; 1.14.3 The Fresnel Formulae; 1.14.3.1 Setting up the problem; 1.14.3.2 Perpendicular polarization; Phase change in reflection; 1.14.3.3 Parallel polarization: Brewster's angle; Brewster's angle. |
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Parallel polarization: Phase change on reflectionThe case of normal incidence; 1.15 Total Internal Reflection; 1.16 Plane Waves: Significance in Electromagnetic Theory and Optics; 1.17 Electromagnetic Waves in Dispersive Media; 1.17.1 Susceptibility and Refractive Index in an Isotropic Dielectric; 1.17.1.1 Introduction: The context; 1.17.1.2 Dispersion: The basic equations; 1.17.2 Dispersion: Further Considerations; 1.17.2.1 The local field: Clausius-Mossotti relation; 1.17.2.2 Dispersion: The general formula; 1.17.2.3 The distribution of resonant frequencies. |
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Optics.
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Optique.
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optics.
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SCIENCE -- Physics -- Optics & Light.
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Optics
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| Other Form: |
Print version: 9780128053577 0128053577 |
| ISBN |
9780128093078 (electronic bk.) |
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0128093072 (electronic bk.) |
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9780128053577 |
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0128053577 |
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DEBSZ 482473258 |
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GBVCP 879400129 |
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AU@ 000066076532 |
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AU@ 000066135315 |
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UKMGB 017992607 |
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AU@ 000067150432 |
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AU@ 000068133768 |
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