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Light Fantastic: A Modern Introduction to Classical and Quantum Optics
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Release NotesThis book presents a thorough and self-contained introduction to modern optics,
covering in full the three components ray optics, wave optics, and quantum
optics. The text covers all that would be needed over a comprehensive course in
optics at the advanced undergraduate or beginning graduate level. Digital
cameras, LCD screens, aircraft laser gyroscopes, and the optical fibre-based
internet illustrate the penetration of optics in twenty-first century life:
these and many more modern applications are presented from first principles.
The self-contained material allows the selection of specific themes grouped in
the following way: Paraxi
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Light Fantastic: A Modern Introduction to Classical and Quantum Optics
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General InformationType.................: Ebook
Part Size............: 15,921,305 bytes
Post InformationPosted by............: ~tqw~
Release NotesThis book presents a thorough and self-contained introduction to modern optics,
covering in full the three components ray optics, wave optics, and quantum
optics. The text covers all that would be needed over a comprehensive course in
optics at the advanced undergraduate or beginning graduate level. Digital
cameras, LCD screens, aircraft laser gyroscopes, and the optical fibre-based
internet illustrate the penetration of optics in twenty-first century life:
these and many more modern applications are presented from first principles.
The self-contained material allows the selection of specific themes grouped in
the following way: Paraxial ray optics with matrix methods and aberrations -
Interference, coherence and interferometers - Diffraction, spectrometers and
Gaussian beams - Fourier optics, holography and information processing -
Maxwell's theory; scattering, absorption and dispersion in bulk materials;
interface behaviour - Quantum phenomena, wave-particle duality, uncertainty
principle; Schroedinger analysis of spectra, photon properties - Laser
principles, He:Ne to MQW lasers, applications - Detectors: photodiodes,
photomultipliers, image intensifiers; response, noise and linearlty; CCDs -
Fibre optics, from monomode fibre analysis to dense wavelength division
multiplexing; fibre sensors - Photon-atom interactions, optical pumping, cooling
and clocks - Second quantization, photon correlations, SPDC, entanglement, tests
of quantum mechanics.

Table Of Contents

1. Introduction
2. Reflection and Refraction at Plane Surfaces
3. Spherical Mirrors and Lenses
4. Optical Instruments
5. Interference Effects and Interferometers
6. Diffraction
7. Fourier Optics
8. Astronomical Telescopes
9. Classical Electromagnetic Theory
10. Polarization
11. Scattering, Absorption, and Dispersion
12. The Quantum Nature of Light and Matter
13. Quantum Mechanics and the Atom
14. Lasers
15. Detectors
16. Optical Fibres
17. Quantum Interactions
18. The Quantized Electromagnetic Field
Appendices

Product Details

* ISBN: 0198566468
* ISBN-13: 9780198566465
* Format: Paperback, 640pp
* Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
* Pub. Date: March 2008
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