Optics / Edition 1

by Ajoy Ghatak

Overview

Optics gives 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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780073380483
Publisher:	McGraw-Hill Higher Education
Publication date:	03/23/2009
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	560
Product dimensions:	8.40(w) x 10.80(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

Ajoy Ghatak was a professor of Physics at IIT Delhi and has recently retired from this position. He obtained his MSc from Delhi University and PhD from Cornell University. He also received DSc (Honoris Causa) from University of Burdwan in 2007. He received the 2008 SPIE Educator award in recognition of "his unparalleled global contributions to the field of fiber optics research, and his tireless dedication to optics education worldwide" and the 2003 Optical Society of America Esther Hoffman Beller award in recognition of his "outstanding contributions to optical science and engineering education". He is a fellow of OSA & SPIE. A prolific writer, his latest book is entitled Albert Einstein: A Glimpse of his Life, Philosophy and Science.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 History of Optics

Chapter 2 What is Light
Part 1 Geometrical Optics

Chapter 3 Fermat's Principal and Its Application

Chapter 4 Refraction And Reflection By Spherical Surfaces

Chapter 5 The Matrix Method In Paraxial Optics

Chapter 6 Abberations
Part 2 Vibrations and Waves

Chapter 7 Simple Harmonic Motion, Forced Vibrations And Origin Of Refractive Index

Chapter 8 Fourier Series and Applications

Chapter 9 The Dirac Delta Function And Fourier Transforms

Chapter 10 Group Velocity And Pulse Dispersion

Chapter 11 Wave Propagation And The Wave Equation

Chapter 12 Huygens’ Principle And Its Applications
Part 3 Interference

Chapter 13 Superposition Of Waves

Chapter 14 Two Beam Interference By Division Of Wavefront

Chapter 15 Interference By Division Of Amplitude

Chapter 16 Multiple Beam Interferometry

Chapter 17 Coherence
Part 4 Diffraction

Chapter 18 Fraunhofer Diffraction: I

Chapter 19 Fraunhofer Diffraction: II And Fourier Optics

Chapter 20 Fresnel Diffraction

Chapter 21 Holography
Part 5 Electromagnetic Character of Light

Chapter 22 Polarization And Double Refraction

Chapter 23 Electromagnetic Waves

Chapter 24 Reflection and Refraction of Electromagnetic Waves
Part 6 Photons

Chapter 25 The Particle Nature of Radiation
Part 7 Lasers and Fiber Optics

Chapter 26 Lasers: An Introduction

Chapter 27 Optical Waveguides I: Optical Fiber Basics using Ray Optics

Chapter 28 Optical Waveguides II: Basic Waveguide Theory and Concept of Modes

Chapter 29 Optical Waveguides III: Single-Mode Fibers
Part 8 Special Theory of Relativity

Chapter 30 Special Theory of Relativity I: Time Dilation and Length Contraction

Chapter 31 Special Theory of Relativity II: Mass-Energy Relation and Lorentz Transformations

App A Gamma Functions and Integrals Involving Gaussian Functions

App B Evaluation of the Integral

App C The Reflectivity of a Fiber Bragg Grating

App D Diffraction of a Gaussian Beam

App E TE and TM Modes in Planar Waveguides

App F Solution for the Parabolic Index Waveguide

App G Invariance of the Wave Equation Under Lorentz Transformation