Physical Optics : Concepts, Optical Elements, and Techniques / by Giovanni Giusfredi.

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Book

Author/Creator:

Giusfredi, Giovanni, author.

Contributor:

SpringerLink (Online service)

Series:

Physics and Astronomy (Springer-11651)

UNITEXT for physics 2198-7882

UNITEXT for Physics, 2198-7882

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Lasers.

Photonics.

Optics.

Electrodynamics.

Quantum optics.

Magnetism.

Magnetic materials.

Optical materials.

Electronics--Materials.

Electronics.

Microwaves.

Optical engineering.

Optics, Lasers, Photonics, Optical Devices.

Classical Electrodynamics.

Quantum Optics.

Magnetism, Magnetic Materials.

Optical and Electronic Materials.

Microwaves, RF and Optical Engineering.

Local Subjects:

Optics, Lasers, Photonics, Optical Devices.

Classical Electrodynamics.

Quantum Optics.

Magnetism, Magnetic Materials.

Optical and Electronic Materials.

Microwaves, RF and Optical Engineering.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (XXX, 933 pages) : 2 illustrations.

Edition:

First edition 2019.

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Springer eBooks

Place of Publication:

Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2019.

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Summary:

This textbook provides a sound foundation in physical optics by covering key concepts in a rigorous but accessible manner. Propagation of electromagnetic waves is examined from multiple perspectives, with explanation of which viewpoints and methods are best suited to different situations. After an introduction to the theory of electromagnetism, reflection, refraction, and dispersion, topics such as geometrical optics, interference, diffraction, coherence, laser beams, polarization, crystallography, and anisotropy are closely examined. Optical elements, including lenses, mirrors, prisms, classical and Fabry-Perot interferometers, resonant cavities, multilayer dielectric structures, interference and spatial filters, diffraction gratings, polarizers, and birefringent plates, are treated in depth. The coverage also encompasses such seldom-covered topics as modeling of general astigmatism via 4x4 matrices, FFT-based numerical methods, and bianisotropy, with a relativistic treatment of optical activity and the Faraday and Fresnel-Fizeau effects. Finally, the history of optics is discussed.

Contents:

Introduction to Optics

Part I Electromagnetism

Historical notes: the first discoveries about magnetism and electricity

The dawning

The laws of electromagnetism

The discovery of electromagnetic waves

Suggested reading

1 Recalls of electromagnetism

Introduction

1.1 The fundamentals

1.2 Maxwell's equations in macroscopic media

1.3 Complex field representation

1.4 Electromagnetic waves

1.5 Energy flow and density of momentum and energy

1.6 Polarization

1.7 Reflection and refraction on plane interface

1.8 Dispersion theory

1.9 Optics of metals and absorbent materials

Bibliographical references

Part II Geometrical Optics

Historical notes: from Empedoklēs to Huygens

The Arab period

The Middle Ages

The Renaissance

The New Science

The law of refraction and the speed of light

The debate over the nature of light

2 Geometrical Optics

2.1 Derivation of Geometrical Optics for λ à 0

2.2 Propagation properties in Geometrical Optics

2.3 General properties of the rays

2.4 Optical images

2.5 Ideal images

2.6 Paraxial Optics

2.7 The method of matrices

2.8 Apertures of an optical system

2.9 Aberrations

2.10 Plane mirrors and prisms

Part III Physical Optics

Historical notes: from Newton to Fresnel

The Newton's Optics

The progress of 18th century

The emission theory and the speed of light

Young and the principle of interference

Fresnel

The ether and the stellar aberration

The diffraction and the interference

The "Mémoire couronné"

The studies on polarization

The transverse nature of the waves

The reflection

The propagation in anisotropic media

Epilogue

3. Interference

3.1 Generalities on interference

3.2 Two-wave interference

3.3 Multiple-wave interference

3.4 Dielectric film with multiple layers

4 Diffraction

4.1 Scalar theory of diffraction

4.2 Fresnel and Fraunhofer diffraction

4.3 Examples of Fraunhofer's diffraction

4.4 Examples of Fresnel's diffraction

Part IV Fourier's Optics

Historical notes: from Fourier to Fizeau

The mathematicians

New glasses and optical instruments

The research on the speed of light and on the aether

The photography

The studies on the color and the physiology of the eye

5 Fourier's Optics

5.1 Mathematical preliminaries

5.2 Sampling theorems

5.3 Applications of the Fourier transform to the diffraction

5.4 Analysis of optical systems by means of the theory of linear systems

5.5 Coherence

5.6 Spatial filtering

5.7 Diffraction gratings

Part V Propagation

Historical notes: from Kirchhoff to Einstein

The Relativity

The black body radiation

The photon

6 Propagation of laser beams in linear media

6.1 The paraxial wave equation

6.2 Propagation of the fundamental Gaussian mode

6.3 Modes of higher order

6.4 Practical notes

6.5 Transformations induced by lenses and by axial optical systems

6.6 Propagation in astigmatic paraxial optical systems

6.7 Bessel's waves

6.8 Bessel-Gauss beams

6.9 Resonant cavity

7 Light propagation in anisotropic media

7.1 Crystallography

7.2 The dielectric tensor

7.3 Crystal classes and principal axes

7.4 Propagation modes for the field D

7.5 Propagation modes for the field E

7.6 Relations between the surfaces of phase velocity, group velocity and wave vectors

7.7 Refraction at the interface with an anisotropic medium

7.8 Interference with birefringent plates

7.9 Bianisotropy

7.10 Form birefringence

7.11 Devices of manipulation and analysis of the polarization

Appendix A Conventions on electromagnetism

Appendix B Mathematical relations

B.1 Vector formulas

B.2 Theorems on integral

B.3 Bessel functions

B.4 Fresnel integrals

B.5 Error function

Appendix C The founding fathers of Optics

Author index

Analytical index.

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978-3-030-25279-3

9783030252793

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