Optics :the science of light /

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"Version: 20191001"--Title page verso."A Morgan & Claypool publication as part of IOP Concise Physics"--Title page verso.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 dimensions4. Fraunhofer diffraction -- 4.1. Fraunhofer diffraction -- 4.2. Diffraction and wave propagation5. 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. Abb?e theory of imaging -- 5.7. Spatial resolution of the compound microscope -- 5.8. Diffraction effects on image brightness6. Optical instruments and fringe localisation -- 6.1. Division of wavefront -- 6.2. Division of amplitude7. 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 illumination8. 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 visibility9. The Fabry-P?erot interferometer -- 9.1. The Fabry-P?erot interference pattern -- 9.2. Observing Fabry-P?erot 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 width10. 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 equations11. 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.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 systemsThe study of light has been an important part of science from its beginning. The ancient Greeks and, prior to the Middle Ages, Islamic scholars provided important insights. With the coming of the Scientific Revolution in the 16th and 17th centuries, optics, in the shape of telescopes and microscopes, provided the means to study the universe from the very distant to the very small. Newton introduced a scientific study also of the nature of light itself. Today, optics remains a key element of modern science, not only as an enabling technology, but in quantum optics, as a means of testing our fundamental understanding of quantum theory and the nature of reality itself.Undergraduates.Also available in print.Mode of access: World Wide Web.System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader, EPUB reader, or Kindle reader.Paul Ewart obtained a BSc and PhD in Physics from Queen's University Belfast and then was an (SERC) Advanced Fellow at the Blackett Laboratory, Imperial College of Science and Technology in London. His current research includes interdisciplinary applications of laser spectroscopy to combustion and environmental physics. He is Professor of Physics and Head of the department of Atomic and Laser Physics at Oxford University. He is also the author of Atomic Physics, another book in the Concise Physics series.Title from PDF title page (viewed on November 18, 2019).

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