Principles of optics : electromagnetic theory of propagation, interference and diffraction of light / by Max Born and Emil Wolf ; contributions by A.B. Bhatia [and six others].

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Born, Max, 1882-1970, author.

Wolf, Emil, author.

Contributor:

Bhatia, A. B., contributor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Optics.

Electromagnetic theory.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (871 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

Sixth (corrected) edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford, [England] : Pergamon Press, 1980.

Summary:

Principles of Optics: Electromagnetic Theory of Propagation, Interference and Diffraction of Light, Sixth Edition covers optical phenomenon that can be treated with Maxwell's phenomenological theory. The book is comprised of 14 chapters that discuss various topics about optics, such as geometrical theories, image forming instruments, and optics of metals and crystals. The text covers the elements of the theories of interference, interferometers, and diffraction. The book tackles several behaviors of light, including its diffraction when exposed to ultrasonic waves. The selection will be most useful to researchers whose work involves understanding the behavior of light.

Contents:

Front Cover

Principles of Optics: Electromagnetic Theory of Propagation, Interference and Diffraction of Light

Copyright Page

Table of Contents

HISTORICAL INTRODUCTION

CHAPTER I. BASIC PROPERTIES OF THE ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD

1.1. The Electromagnetic Field

1.2. The Wave Equation and the Velocity of Light

1.3. Scalar Waves

1.4. Vector Waves

1.5. Reflection and Refraction of a Plane Wave

1.6. Wave Propagation in a Stratified Medium. Theory of Dielectric Films

CHAPTER II. ELECTROMAGNETIC POTENTIALS AND POLARIZATION

2.1. The Electrodynamic Potentials in the Vacuum

2.2. Polarization and Magnetization

2.3. The Lorentz-Lorenz Formula and Elementary Dispersion Theory

2.4. Propagation of Electromagnetic Waves Treated by Integral Equations

CHAPTER III. FOUNDATIONS OF GEOMETRICAL OPTICS

3.1. Approximation for Very Short Wavelengths

3.2. General Properties of Rays

3.3. Other Basic Theorems of Geometrical Optics

CHAPTER IV. GEOMETRICAL THEORY OF OPTICAL IMAGING

4.1. The Characteristic Functions of Hamilton

4.2. Perfect Imaging

4.3. Projective Transformation (Collineation) with Axial Symmetry

4.4. Gaussian Optics

4.5. Stigmatic Imaging with Wide-angle Pencils

4.6. Astigmatic Pencils of Rays

4.7. Chromatic Aberration. Dispersion by a Prism

4.8. Photometry and Apertures

4.9. Ray Tracing

4.10. Design of Aspheric Surfaces

CHAPTER V. GEOMETRICAL THEORY OF ABERRATIONS

5.1. Wave and Ray Aberrations

the Aberration Function

5.2. The Perturbation Eikonal of Schwarzschild

5.3. The Primary (Seidel) Aberrations

5.4. Addition Theorem for the Primary Aberrations

5.5. The Primary Aberration Coefficients of a General Centred Lens System

5.6. Example : The Primary Aberrations of a Thin Lens

5.7. The Chromatic Aberration of a General Centred Lens System.

CHAPTER VI. IMAGE-FORMING INSTRUMENTS

6.1. The Eye

6.2. The Camera

6.3. The Refracting Telescope

6.4. The Reflecting Telescope

6.5. Instruments of Illumination

6.6. The Microscope

CHAPTER VII. ELEMENTS OF THE THEORY OF INTERFERENCE AND INTERFEROMETERS

7.1. Introduction

7.2. Interference of Two Monochromatic Waves

7.3. Two-beam Interference : Division of Wave-front

7.4. Standing Waves

7.5. Two-beam Interference: Division of Amplitude

7.6. Multiple-beam Interference

7.7. The Comparison of Wavelengths with the Standard Metre

CHAPTER VIII. ELEMENTS OF THE THEORY OF DIFFRACTION

8.1. Introduction

8.2. The Huygens-Fresnel Principle

8.3. Kirchhoff's Diffraction Theory

8.4. Transition to a Scalar Theory

8.5. Fraunhofer Diffraction at Apertures of Various Forms

8.6. Fraunhofer Diffraction in Optical Instruments

8.7. Fresnel Diffraction at a Straight Edge

8.8. The Three-dimensional Light Distribution near Focus

8.9. The Boundary Diffraction Wave

8.10. Gabor's Method of Imaging by Reconstructed Wave-fronts(Holography)

CHAPTER IX. THE DIFFRACTION THEORY OF ABERRATIONS

9.1. The Diffraction Integral in the Presence of Aberrations

9.2. Expansion of the Aberration Function

9.3. Tolerance Conditions for Primary Aberrations

9.4.The Diffraction Pattern Associated with a Single Aberration

9.5. Imaging of Extended Objects

CHAPTER X. INTERFERENCE AND DIFFRACTION WITH PARTIALLY COHERENT LIGHT

10.1. Introduction

10.2. A Complex Representation of Real Polychromatic Fields

10.3. The Correlation Functions of Light Beams

10.4. Interference and Diffraction with Quasi-monochromatic Light

10.5. Some Applications

10.6. Some Theorems Relating to Mutual Coherence

10.7. Rigorous Theory of Partial Coherence

10.8. Polarization Properties of Quasi-monochromatic Light.

CHAPTER XI. RIGOROUS DIFFRACTION THEORY

11.1. Introduction

11.2. Boundary Conditions and Surface Currents

11.3. Diffraction by a Plane Screen: Electromagnetic Form of Babinet's Principle

11.4. Two-dimensional Diffraction by a Plane Screen

11.5. Two-dimensional Diffraction of a Plane Wave by a Half-plane

11.6. Three-dimensional Diffraction of a Plane Wave by a Half-plane

11.7. Diffraction of a Localized Source by a Half-plane

11.8. Other Problems

11.9. Uniqueness of Solution

CHAPTER XII. DIFFRACTION OF LIGHT BY ULTRASONIC WAVES

12.1. Qualitative Description of the Phenomenon and Summary of Theories Based on Maxwell's Differential Equations

12.2. Diffraction of Light by Ultrasonic Waves as Treated by the Integral Equation Method

CHAPTER XIII. OPTICS OF METALS

13.1. Wave Propagation in a Conductor

13.2. Refraction and Reflection at a Metal Surface

13.3. Elementary Electron Theory of the Optical Constants of Metals

13.4. Wave Propagation in a Stratified Conducting Medium. Theory of Metallic Films

13.5. Diffraction by a Conducting Sphere

Theory of Mie

CHAPTER XIV. OPTICS OF CRYSTALS

14.1. The Dielectric Tensor of an Anisotropic Medium

14.2. The Structure of a Monochromatic Plane Wave in an Anisotropic Medium

14.3. Optical Properties of Uniaxial and Biaxial Crystals

14.4. Measurements in Crystal Optics

14.5. Stress Birefringence and Form Birefringence

14.6. Absorbing Crystals

APPENDICES:

I. The Calculus of Variations

II. Light Optics, Electron Optics and Wave Mechanics

III. Asymptotic Approximations to Integrals

IV. The Dirac Delta Function

V. A Mathematical Lemma used in the Rigorous Derivation of the Lorentz-Lorenz Law (2.4.2)

VI. Propagation of Discontinuities in an Electromagnetic Field (3.1.1)

VII. The Circle Polynomials of Zernike ( 9.2.1).

VIII. Proof of an Inequality ( 10.7.3)

IX. Evaluation of Two Integrals ( 12.2.2)

AUTHOR INDEX

SUBJECT INDEX.

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-4831-0320-X