This curriculum was originally developed for a
senior-level optics course in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Brigham
Young University. Topics are addressed froma physics perspective and include the
propagation of light in matter, reflection and transmission at boundaries,
polarization effects, dispersion, coherence, ray optics and imaging,
diffraction, and the quantumnature of light. Students using this book should be
familiar with differentiation, integration, and standard trigonometric and
algebraic manipulation.
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.
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.
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.
This lecture note is intended to provide theoretical background to
understand and predict a host of optical phenomena that become possible when
nonlinearity in the optical response of a material is included in the
description. It includes a detailed description of several of these phenomena,
their experimental observation and photonic devices based on them.