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| Preface to the second English edition | |
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| Preface to the first edition | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Abbe's sine condition | |
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| Fourier optics | |
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| Effect of polarization on diffraction in systems of high numerical aperture | |
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| Gaussian beam optics | |
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| Coherent and incoherent imaging | |
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| First-order temporal coherence in classical optics | |
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| The van Cittert-Zernike theorem | |
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| Partial polarization, Stokes parameters, and the Poincare sphere | |
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| Second-order coherence and the Hanbury Brown-Twiss experiment | |
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| What in the world are surface plasmons? | |
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| Surface plasmon polaritons on metallic surfaces | |
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| The Faraday effect | |
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| The magneto-optical Kerr effect | |
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| The Sagnac interferometer | |
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| Fabry-Perot etalons in polarized light | |
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| The Ewald-Oseen extinction theorem | |
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| Reciprocity in classical linear optics | |
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| Optical pulse compression | |
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| The uncertainty principle in classical optics | |
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| Omni-directional dielectric mirrors | |
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| Linear optical vortices | |
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| Geometric-optical rays, Poynting's vector, and the field momenta | |
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| Doppler shift, stellar aberration, and convection of light by moving media | |
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| Diffraction gratings | |
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| Diffractive optical elements | |
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| The Talbot effect | |
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| Some quirks of total internal reflection | |
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| Evanescent coupling | |
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| Internal and external conical refraction | |
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| Transmission of light through small elliptical apertures | |
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| The method of Fox and Li | |
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| The beam propagation method | |
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| Launching light into a fiber | |
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| The optics of semiconductor diode lasers | |
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| Michelson's stellar interferometer | |
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| Bracewell's interferometric telescope | |
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| Scanning optical microscopy | |
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| Zernike's method of phase contrast | |
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| Polarization microscopy | |
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| Nomarski's differential interference contrast microscope | |
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| The van Leeuwenhoek microscope | |
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| Projection photolithography | |
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| Interaction of light with subwavelength structures | |
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| The Ronchi test | |
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| The Shack-Hartmann wavefront sensor | |
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| Ellipsometry | |
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| Holography and holographic interferometry | |
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| Self-focusing in nonlinear optical media | |
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| Spatial optical solitons | |
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| Laser heating of multilayer stacks | |
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| Index | |