The Light Fantastic: A Modern Introduction to Classical and Quantum Optics - Couverture souple

Kenyon, Ian

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0198566468 ISBN 13 : 9780198566465

Editeur : Oxford University Press, 2005

Synopsis

This book presents a thorough and self-contained introduction to modern optics, covering in full the three components-ray optics, wave optics, and quantum optics. The text covers all that would be needed over a comprehensive course in optics at the advanced undergraduate or beginning graduate level. Digital cameras, L.C.D. screens, aircraft laser gyroscopes, and the optical fibre-based internet illustrate the penetration of optics in twenty-first century life: these and many more modern applications are presented from first principles. The self-contained material allows the selection of specific themes grouped in the following way: Paraxial ray optics with matrix methods and aberrations - Interference, coherence and interferometers - Diffraction, spectrometers and Gaussian beams - Fourier optics, holography and information processing - Maxwell's theory; scattering, absorption and dispersion in bulk materials; interface behaviour - Quantum phenomena, wave-particle duality, uncertainty principle; Schroedinger analysis of spectra, photon properties - Laser principles, He: Ne to M.Q.W. lasers, applications - Detectors: photodiodes, photomultipliers, image intensifiers; response, noise and linearlty; C.C.D.s - Fibre optics, from monomode fibre analysis to dense wavelength division multiplexing; fibre sensors - Photon-atom interactions, optical pumping, cooling and clocks - Second quantization, photon correlations, S.P.D.C., entanglement, tests of quantum mechanics.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Dr. Ian Kenyon Senior Honorary Research Fellow School of Physics and Astro Physics University of Birmingham

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Oxford University Press
• Date d'édition: 2005
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0198566468
• ISBN 13: 9780198566465
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 654
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: Messaggerie Libri; ufficio.anagrafiche@meli.it; ; Via Verdi, 8; Assago Milano; Italie