Optics, 5/e

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Table of Contents:

• 1  History of Optics
• 2  What is Light?

Part 1   Geometrical Optics

• 3  Fermat's Principle and Its Applications
• 4  Refraction and Reflection by Spherical Surfaces
• 5  The Matrix Method in Paraxial Optics
• 6  Aberrations

Part 2   Vibrations and Waves

• 7  Simple Harmonic Motion, Forced Vibrations and Origin of Refractive Index
• 8  Fourier Series and Applications
• 9  The Dirac Delta Function and Fourier Transforms
• 10  Group Velocity and Pulse Dispersion
• 11  Wave Propagation and the Wave Equation
• 12  Huygens' Principle and Its Applications

Part 3   Interference

• 13  Superposition of  Waves
• 14  Two Beam Interference by Division of Wavefront  
• 15  Interference by Division of Amplitude
• 16  Multiple Beam Interferometry
• 17  Coherence

Part 4   Diffraction

• 18  Fraunhofer Diffraction I
• 19  Fraunhofer Diffraction II and Fourier Optics
• 20  Fresnel Diffraction
• 21  Holography

Part 5   Electromagnetic Character of Light

• 22  Polarization and Double Refraction
• 23  Electromagnetic Waves
• 24  Reflection and Refraction of Electromagnetic Waves

Part 6   Photons

• 25  The Particle Nature of Radiation

Part 7   Lasers & Fiber Optics

• 26  Lasers: An Introduction
• 27  Fiber Optics I: Basic Concepts and Ray Optics Considerations
• 28  Fiber Optics II: Basic Waveguide Theory and Concept of Modes
• 29  Fiber Optics III: Single Mode Fibers

Part 8   Special Theory of Relativity

• 30  Special Theory Of Relativity I: Time Dilation And Length Contraction
• 31  Special Theory of Relativity II:  The Mass-Energy Relation
• 32  Special Theory of Relativity III:  Lorentz Transformations

• Appendix
• Index