Principles of biophotonics.

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"Version: 20221201"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Maxwell's equation in integral form -- 1.1. Faraday's law -- 1.2. Amp?ere's law -- 1.3. Gauss's law for electric fields -- 1.4. Gauss's law for magnetic fields -- 1.5. Problems2. Maxwell's equations in differential form -- 2.1. The four main equations -- 2.2. Constitutive relations -- 2.3. Maxwell's equations in other representations -- 2.4. Classification of optical materials -- 2.5. Boundary conditions -- 2.6. Reflection and refraction at boundaries -- 2.7. Characteristic impedance -- 2.8. Poynting theorem and energy conservation -- 2.9. Phase, group, and energy velocity -- 2.10. The wave equation -- 2.11. Wave equation in other representations -- 2.12. Problems3. Propagation of electromagnetic fields -- 3.1. Dyadic Green's function -- 3.2. Electric dipole radiation -- 3.3. Magnetic dipole radiation -- 3.4. Problems4. Propagation of scalar fields in free space -- 4.1. Primary and secondary sources -- 4.2. 1D Green's function : plane wave -- 4.3. 2D Green's function : cylindrical wave -- 4.4. 3D Green's function : spherical wave -- 4.5. Problems5. Diffraction of scalar fields -- 5.1. Diffraction by a 2D object -- 5.2. Plane wave decomposition of spherical waves : Weyl's formula -- 5.3. Angular spectrum propagation approximation -- 5.4. Fresnel approximation -- 5.5. Fraunhofer approximation -- 5.6. Fourier properties of lenses -- 5.7. Problems6. Geometrical optics -- 6.1. Applicability of geometrical optics -- 6.2. WKB approximation : eikonal equation and geometrical optics -- 6.3. Fermat's principle -- 6.4. Refraction through curved surfaces -- 6.5. Reflection by curved mirrors -- 6.6. Ray propagation (ABCD) matrices -- 6.7. Problems7. Gaussian beam propagation -- 7.1. Definition of a light beam -- 7.2. Fresnel propagation of Gaussian beams -- 7.3. Gaussian beam characteristics -- 7.4. Gaussian beam propagation using ABCD matrices -- 7.5. Problems8. Propagation of field correlations -- 8.1. Heisenberg uncertainty relation and the coherence of light -- 8.2. Spatiotemporal field correlations -- 8.3. Coherence mode decomposition of random fields -- 8.4. Deterministic signal associated with a random stationary field -- 8.5. Propagation of field correlations : intuitive picture -- 8.6. Stochastic wave equation -- 8.7. Wave equation for the deterministic signal associated with a random field -- 8.8. Propagation of spatial coherence : van Cittert-Zernike theorem -- 8.9. Problems.This volume aims to familiarize the reader with basic concepts of light propagation in the simplest class of media: linear, homogenous, dispersionless, and isotropic.Students, instructors, and professionals who are active at the interface between biology, medicine, and optics.Also available in print.Mode of access: World Wide Web.System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader, EPUB reader, or Kindle reader.Gabriel Popescu is the William L. Everitt Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. He received his PhD in optics in 2002 from CREOL, The College of Optics and Photonics, University of Central Florida.Title from PDF title page (viewed on January 9, 2023).

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Biomedical engineering.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Biomedical.
Light.
Biophotometry.
Optics and Photonics
Photonics
Optical Phenomena.
Optical Imaging.

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