Optics f2f: From Fourier to Fresnel

Adams, Charles S.; Hughes, Ifan G.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0198786794 ISBN 13 : 9780198786795

Editeur : OUP Oxford, 2018

Revue de presse :

The book is appropriate for upper-level undergraduate optics courses. It would also serve as a handy reference text for graduate-level research students (Martha- Elizabeth Baylor, Physics Today)

Classical wave-optics was my first love, and I am sure Charles Adams and Ian Hughess book will be responsible for many cases of love at first sight among younger readers. It is a rich blend of useful computer outputs with the results of the beautiful methods developed in the 19th century by scientists, whose only option was to be smart, since they had no computers. (Alain Aspect, Augustin Fresnel Professor at Institut d'Optique Graduate School, Université Paris Saclay)

This is a very comprehensive and well organized book on optics. It captures the most essential aspects of modern optics and is a great resource and reference for anyone studying or interested in optics. A must have. (Lukas Novotny, Professor of Photonics, Photonics Laboratory, ETH Zurich)

Présentation de l'éditeur :

This textbook on optics provides an introduction to key concepts of wave optics and light propagation. It uniquely makes extensive use of Fourier methods and the angular-spectrum approach, especially to provide a unified approach to Fraunhofer and Fresnel diffraction. A recurring theme is that simple building blocks such as plane and spherical waves can be summed to construct useful solutions. The text pays particular attention to analysing topics in contemporary optics such as propagation, dispersion, laser beams and wave guides, apodisation, tightly-focused vector fields, unconventional polarization states, and light-matter interactions. Throughout the text, the principles are applied through worked examples, and the book is copiously illustrated with more than 240 figures. The 200 end-of-chapter exercises offer further opportunities for testing the reader's understanding.