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Basic Optics (Doc 32P)
This note covers the following topics: basic optics, introduction, properties of light, color, spectral power, polarization, optical fundamentals, Fermats principle, Snells law, Fresnel equations, Etendue, coherence, scattering, optical laboratory toolbox, introduction, creating light, lasers, leds, directing light, lenses or mirrors, fibers, controlling wavelength, diffraction grating, etalons, harmonic generation, measuring light, detectors, cameras or dyes.
Author(s): Laura Kranendonk
32 Pages 
Small Angle Scattering and Diffraction
This book shows how the existing technology of material characterization can contribute to science and applied technology. The authors who contributed with this book sought to show the importance of applying the existing techniques in the development of their works.
Author(s): Margareth Kazuyo Kobayashi Dias Franco
NA Pages
This note covers the following topics: Models in Optics, Scalar Diffraction, Operation of Simple Lens, Imaging of Extended Objects, Measurement of Imaging Properties, Examples of Optical Systems, The Photographic Process, Holography, Holographic Interferomerty, Holographic Applications, Optical Processing, Spatial Light Modulators and Applications.
Author(s): Will Hossack
NA Pages
Optics Lecture Notes by Michigan State University
This lecture note covers following topics: Nature of Light, Geometrical Optics, Optical Instrumentation, Dispersion, Prisms, and Aberrations, Wave Equations, EM Waves, Polarization, Fresnel Equations, Production of Polarized Light, Superposition of Waves Interference of Light, Coherence, Fraunhofer Diffraction, Fourier Optics, Characteristics of Laser Beams, Optics of the Eye.
Author(s): Michigan State University
NA Pages
Lectures On Geometrical Optics
This lecture note explains following topics: Basics of optics, Laws of Reflection and Refraction, Reflection from spherical mirrors, Velocity of image, Refraction at Plane Surfaces, Prism Theory, Defects of images, Refraction from curved surfaces.
Author(s): Anuj Kumar Dubey
196 Pages
Advances in Lasers and Electro Optics
This book is divided in four sections. The book presents several physical effects and properties of materials used in lasers and electro-optics in the first chapter and, in the three remaining chapters, applications of lasers and electro-optics in three different areas are presented.
Author(s): Nelson Costa and Adolfo Cartaxo
NA Pages
Optics Lecture Notes by M P Vaughan
This book covers the following topics: Waves and Photons, The Physics of Waves,The Huygens-Fresnel Principle, Diffraction, Maxwell's Equations, Polarisation, Fermats Principle, Spherical Lenses and Mirrors, Crystal Symmetry and Optical Instruments.
Author(s): M P Vaughan
NA Pages
This note describes the following topics: Linear systems and the Fourier transform in optics, Properties of Light, Geometrical Optics, Wave Optics, Fourier Optics, Spatial and Temporal Field Correlations, Low-coherence Interferometry, Optical Coherence Tomography, Polarization, Waveplates, Electro-optics and Acousto-optics.
Author(s): Prof. Gabriel Popescu
NA Pages
This note provides an introduction to optical science with elementary engineering applications. Topics covered in geometrical optics include: ray-tracing, aberrations, lens design, apertures and stops, radiometry and photometry. Topics covered in wave optics include: basic electrodynamics, polarization, interference, wave-guiding, Fresnel and Fraunhofer diffraction, image formation, resolution, space-bandwidth product.
Author(s): Prof. George Barbastathis, Prof. Colin Sheppard and Dr. Se Baek Oh
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