Optics

Name: Optics
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ISBN: 9780073380483

ISBN-10: 0073380482

ISBN-13: 9780073380483

Edition: 2010

Authors: Ajoy Ghatak

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Opticsgives a comprehensive and balanced account of traditional optics as well as some of the recent developments in this field while meeting the requirements of a course on optics meant for undergraduate students of science and engineering.

Book details

List price: $249.33
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Higher Education
Publication date: 3/23/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 560
Size: 8.00" wide x 10.50" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 2.508

K. Thyagarajan, PHD, is Professor in the Department of Physics at the Indian Institute of Technology at New Delhi. He is a recipient of the 1997 Lucent Technologies Finolex-Voice & Data Fibre Optic Person of the Year Award.Ajoy Ghatak, PHD, is currently Distinguished Research Fellow at Disha Academy of Research and Education in Raipur. Professor Ghatak is a recipient of the 2003 Esther Hoffman Beller Award (instituted by The Optical Society of America) in recognition of his outstanding contributions to optical science and engineering education. Both men are Fellows of the Optical Society of America and have co-authored five previous books.




History of Optics



What is Light



Geometrical Optics



Fermat's Principal and Its Application



Refraction And Reflection By Spherical Surfaces



The Matrix Method In Paraxial Optics



Abberations



Vibrations and Waves



Simple Harmonic Motion, Forced Vibrations And Origin Of Refractive Index



Fourier Series and Applications



The Dirac Delta Function And Fourier Transforms



Group Velocity And Pulse Dispersion



Wave Propagation And The Wave Equation



Huygens’ Principle And Its Applications



Interference



Superposition Of Waves



Two Beam Interference By Division Of Wavefront



Interference By Division Of Amplitude



Multiple Beam Interferometry



Coherence



Diffraction



Fraunhofer Diffraction: I



Fraunhofer Diffraction: II And Fourier Optics



Fresnel Diffraction



Holography



Electromagnetic Character of Light



Polarization And Double Refraction



Electromagnetic Waves



Reflection and Refraction of Electromagnetic Waves



Photons



The Particle Nature of Radiation



Lasers and Fiber Optics



Lasers: An Introduction



Optical Waveguides I: Optical Fiber Basics using Ray Optics



Optical Waveguides II: Basic Waveguide Theory and Concept of Modes



Optical Waveguides III: Single-Mode Fibers



Special Theory of Relativity



Special Theory of Relativity I: Time Dilation and Length Contraction



Special Theory of Relativity II: Mass-Energy Relation and Lorentz Transformations



Gamma Functions and Integrals Involving Gaussian Functions



Evaluation of the Integral



The Reflectivity of a Fiber Bragg Grating



Diffraction of a Gaussian Beam



TE and TM Modes in Planar Waveguides



Solution for the Parabolic Index Waveguide



Invariance of the Wave Equation Under Lorentz Transformation