"Version: 20240701"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. The Maxwell equations -- 1.1. Introduction -- 1.2. Lorentz force -- 1.3. Electric flux -- 1.4. The Gauss law -- 1.5. The Gauss law for magnetism -- 1.6. Faraday's law -- 1.7. Amp?ere's law -- 1.8. The wave equation -- 1.9. The speed and propagation of light -- 1.10. Refraction index -- 1.11. Electromagnetic waves -- 1.…
"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. Fra…
"Version: 20250201"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Introduction : the electromagnetic spectrum -- 2. Maxwell's equations -- 2.1. Gauss's law -- 2.2. 'No magnetic monopoles' -- 2.3. Faraday's law -- 2.4. Amp?ere-Maxwell law -- 2.5. Exercises3. Electromagnetic waves -- 3.1. The wave equation -- 3.2. Solutions of the wave equation -- 3.3. Plane waves -- 3.4. Waves in a ha…
"Version: 20181101"--Title page verso."A Morgan & Claypool publication as part of IOP Concise Physics"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.part I. Some preliminary ideas -- 1. What is science; what is art? -- 1.1. The coherence of our experience -- 1.2. Truth in science -- 1.3. Operational definitions -- 1.4. Inspiration and perspiration -- 1.5. Criticism and self esteem -- 1.…
"Version: 20181101"--Title page verso."A Morgan & Claypool publication as part of IOP Concise Physics"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.part I. Energy and photography. 1. The nature of energy -- 1.1. Energy transfer2. Energy and exposure -- 2.1. Defining our terms -- 2.2. Tracing the energy from source to camera -- 2.3. The Jones-Condit equation3. Shutter speed and aperture…
"Version: 20181201"--Title page verso."A Morgan & Claypool publication as part of IOP Concise Physics"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.part I. The physics of light detectors -- 1. Detectors and the characteristic curve -- 1.1. The physics of photons -- 1.2. Photoelectric detectors -- 1.3. Photochemical detectors -- 1.4. Basic photochemistry -- 1.5. The eye as a detector --…
"Version: 20241201"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Introduction -- 2. Mathematical preliminaries -- 2.1. Fourier transform basics -- 2.2. Review of random processes theory -- 2.3. Simulating a random process with known spectral density -- 2.4. Complex signal representation -- 2.5. Spiral phase quadrature transform3. The angular spectrum method -- 3.1. Wave equation -- …
"Version: 20250701"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Introduction -- 1.1. What is quantum optics? -- 1.2. Open quantum systems -- 1.3. The mystery of the polaroids -- 1.4. This book2. Classical electromagnetism and linear optics -- 2.1. Maxwell's equations and electromagnetic waves -- 2.2. Wave equation for fields in a medium -- 2.3. Slowly varying envelope approximation…
"Version: 20240901"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Introduction -- 2. Theoretical aspects -- 2.1. The Jaynes-Cummings model -- 2.2. Jaynes-Cummings dynamics -- 2.3. Driven and open Jaynes-Cummings physics -- 2.4. Beyond the rotating-wave approximation : the quantum Rabi model -- 2.5. Extended Jaynes-Cummings models -- 2.6. Extended Jaynes-Cummings models turned into si…
"Version: 20230501"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.part I. A historical, mathematical and optical introduction for beginners. 1. A brief history of stigmatic lens desing -- 1.1. The rise of geometrical optics -- 1.2. Optics of the ancient Greeks and Arab world -- 1.3. Snell, Descartes, Huygens, Newton and Fermat -- 1.4. 19th and 20th century -- 1.5. The computer era and t…