Optics : the science of light / Paul Ewart.
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| Language: | English |
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San Rafael [California] (40 Oak Drive, San Rafael, CA, 94903, USA) :
Morgan & Claypool Publishers,
[2019]
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| Series: | IOP (Series). Release 6.
IOP concise physics. |
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Introduction and structure of the course
- 2. Geometrical optics
- 2.1. Fermat's principle
- 2.2. Lenses and principal planes
- 2.3. Compound lens systems
- 2.4. Illumination of optical systems.
- 3. Waves and diffraction
- 3.1. Mathematical description of a wave
- 3.2. Interference
- 3.3. Phasors
- 3.4. Diffraction from a finite slit
- 3.5. Diffraction from a finite slit : phasor treatment
- 3.6. Diffraction in two dimensions.
- 4. Fraunhofer diffraction
- 4.1. Fraunhofer diffraction
- 4.2. Diffraction and wave propagation.
- 5. Fourier methods in optics
- 5.1. The Fresnel-Kirchhoff integral as a Fourier transform
- 5.2. The convolution theorem
- 5.3. Some useful Fourier transforms and convolutions
- 5.4. Fourier analysis
- 5.5. Spatial frequencies
- 5.6. Abbé theory of imaging
- 5.7. Spatial resolution of the compound microscope
- 5.8. Diffraction effects on image brightness.
- 6. Optical instruments and fringe localisation
- 6.1. Division of wavefront
- 6.2. Division of amplitude.
- 7. The diffraction grating spectrograph
- 7.1. Interference pattern from a diffraction grating
- 7.2. Effect of finite slit width
- 7.3. Diffraction grating performance
- 7.4. Blazed (reflection) gratings
- 7.5. Effect of slit width on resolution and illumination.
- 8. The Michelson (Fourier transform) interferometer
- 8.1. Michelson interferometer
- 8.2. Resolving power of the Michelson spectrometer
- 8.3. The Fourier transform spectrometer
- 8.4. The Wiener-Khinchin theorem
- 8.5. Fringe visibility.
- 9. The Fabry-Pérot interferometer
- 9.1. The Fabry-Pérot interference pattern
- 9.2. Observing Fabry-Pérot fringes
- 9.3. Finesse
- 9.4. The instrument width
- 9.5. Free spectral range, FSR
- 9.6. Resolving power
- 9.7. Practical matters
- 9.8. Instrument function and instrument width.
- 10. Reflection at dielectric surfaces and boundaries
- 10.1. Electromagnetic waves at dielectric boundaries
- 10.2. Reflection properties of a single dielectric layer
- 10.3. Anti-reflection coatings
- 10.4. Multiple dielectric layers : matrix method
- 10.5. High reflectance mirrors
- 10.6. Interference filters
- 10.7. Reflection and transmission at oblique incidence
- 10.8. Deductions from Fresnel's equations.
- 11. Polarized light
- 11.1. Polarization states
- 11.2. Transformation and analysis of states of polarization
- 11.3. Optics of anisotropic media; birefringence
- 11.4. Production and manipulation of polarized light
- 11.5. Analysis of polarized light
- 11.6. Interference of polarized light.