Principles of biophotonics. Volume 3, Field propagation in linear, homogeneous, dispersionless, isotropic media / Gabriel Popescu.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Popescu, Gabriel, 1971- author.

Contributor:

Institute of Physics (Great Britain), publisher.

Series:

IOP (Series). Release 22.

IPEM-IOP series in physics and engineering in medicine and biology

IOP ebooks. 2022 collection.

[IOP release $release]

IOP ebooks. [2022 collection]

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Biophotometry.

Photonics--Industrial applications.

Photonics.

Photonics--Therapeutic use.

Biomedical engineering.

Light.

Biomedical Engineering.

Optical Phenomena.

Optical Imaging.

Optics and Photonics--methods.

Medical Subjects:

Biomedical Engineering.

Optical Phenomena.

Light.

Optical Imaging.

Optics and Photonics--methods.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (various pagings) : illustrations (some color).

Other Title:

Field propagation in linear, homogeneous, dispersionless, isotropic media.

Place of Publication:

Bristol [England] (Temple Circus, Temple Way, Bristol BS1 6HG, UK) : IOP Publishing, [2022]

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Mode of access: World Wide Web.

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Biography/History:

Gabriel Popescu is the William L. Everitt Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. He received his PhD in optics in 2002 from CREOL, The College of Optics and Photonics, University of Central Florida.

Summary:

This volume aims to familiarize the reader with basic concepts of light propagation in the simplest class of media: linear, homogenous, dispersionless, and isotropic.

Contents:

1. Maxwell's equation in integral form

1.1. Faraday's law

1.2. Ampère's law

1.3. Gauss's law for electric fields

1.4. Gauss's law for magnetic fields

1.5. Problems

2. Maxwell's equations in differential form

2.1. The four main equations

2.2. Constitutive relations

2.3. Maxwell's equations in other representations

2.4. Classification of optical materials

2.5. Boundary conditions

2.6. Reflection and refraction at boundaries

2.7. Characteristic impedance

2.8. Poynting theorem and energy conservation

2.9. Phase, group, and energy velocity

2.10. The wave equation

2.11. Wave equation in other representations

2.12. Problems

3. Propagation of electromagnetic fields

3.1. Dyadic Green's function

3.2. Electric dipole radiation

3.3. Magnetic dipole radiation

3.4. Problems

4. Propagation of scalar fields in free space

4.1. Primary and secondary sources

4.2. 1D Green's function : plane wave

4.3. 2D Green's function : cylindrical wave

4.4. 3D Green's function : spherical wave

4.5. Problems

5. Diffraction of scalar fields

5.1. Diffraction by a 2D object

5.2. Plane wave decomposition of spherical waves : Weyl's formula

5.3. Angular spectrum propagation approximation

5.4. Fresnel approximation

5.5. Fraunhofer approximation

5.6. Fourier properties of lenses

5.7. Problems

6. Geometrical optics

6.1. Applicability of geometrical optics

6.2. WKB approximation : eikonal equation and geometrical optics

6.3. Fermat's principle

6.4. Refraction through curved surfaces

6.5. Reflection by curved mirrors

6.6. Ray propagation (ABCD) matrices

6.7. Problems

7. Gaussian beam propagation

7.1. Definition of a light beam

7.2. Fresnel propagation of Gaussian beams

7.3. Gaussian beam characteristics

7.4. Gaussian beam propagation using ABCD matrices

7.5. Problems

8. Propagation of field correlations

8.1. Heisenberg uncertainty relation and the coherence of light

8.2. Spatiotemporal field correlations

8.3. Coherence mode decomposition of random fields

8.4. Deterministic signal associated with a random stationary field

8.5. Propagation of field correlations : intuitive picture

8.6. Stochastic wave equation

8.7. Wave equation for the deterministic signal associated with a random field

8.8. Propagation of spatial coherence : van Cittert-Zernike theorem

8.9. Problems.

Notes:

"Version: 20221201"--Title page verso.

Includes bibliographical references.

Title from PDF title page (viewed on January 9, 2023).

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Print version:

ISBN:

9780750316460

9780750316477

OCLC:

1358413833

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