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 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.
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 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.