Electromagnetic Optics.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gbur, Greg.

Series:

IOP Ebooks Series

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (537 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bristol : Institute of Physics Publishing, 2025.

Summary:

This book will be an in-depth textbook introducing and covering all topics related to the fact that light is a transverse electromagnetic wave.

Contents:

Intro

Acknowledgments

Author biography

Gregory J Gbur

Chapter Introduction: the electromagnetic spectrum

References

Chapter Maxwell's equations

2.1 Gauss's law

2.1.1 Uniformly charged sphere

2.1.2 Two infinite sheets of electric charge

2.2 'No magnetic monopoles'

2.3 Faraday's law

2.4 Ampère-Maxwell law

2.4.1 Magnetic field of a thick wire

2.4.2 Magnetic field of a current sheet

2.4.3 Magnetic field of a solenoid

2.5 Exercises

Chapter Electromagnetic waves

3.1 The wave equation

3.2 Solutions of the wave equation

3.3 Plane waves

3.4 Waves in a half space

3.5 Paraxial waves and Gaussian beams

3.6 Exercises

Chapter The polarization of light

4.1 Polarization basics

4.2 Special cases

4.2.1 Linear polarization

4.2.2 Circular polarization

4.3 Polarization-sensitive optical elements

4.4 Stokes parameters

4.5 The Poincaré sphere

4.6 The Pancharatnam phase

4.7 Jones vectors

4.7.1 Example: linear to circular polarization

4.7.2 Example: Pancharatnam-Berry optical element

4.7.3 Example: circular polarization filter

4.7.4 Example: optical attenuator

4.8 Nonuniform polarization

4.9 Exercises

Chapter Maxwell's equations in matter

5.1 Electric dipoles and the D-field

5.2 Magnetic dipoles and the H-field

5.3 Closing the electromagnetic 'loop'

5.4 Permittivity, permeability, and the refractive index

5.5 Exercises

Chapter Dispersion and the speed of light

6.1 Lorentz oscillator model of the atom

6.2 The Lorentz model for multiple oscillators

6.3 The Debye model

6.4 The speed of light in matter

6.5 Optical dispersion

6.6 Kramers-Kronig relations

6.7 Optical precursors

6.8 Exercises

Chapter Conservation laws.

7.1 Conservation of energy

7.1.1 Energy of a plane wave

7.2 Paradoxical behavior of the Poynting vector

7.3 Conservation of momentum

7.3.1 Momentum of a plane wave

7.4 Momentum in matter and the Abraham-Minkowski controversy

7.5 Optical trapping

7.6 Conservation of angular momentum

7.7 Exercises

Chapter Anisotropic media

8.1 Basic concepts of anisotropy

8.2 Plane waves in crystals

8.3 Energy flow in crystals

8.4 The Fresnel equation of wave normals

8.5 Ellipsoid of wave normals

8.6 Anisotropy and wave plates

8.7 Optical rotation

8.8 Anisotropic media with absorption

8.9 Conical refraction

8.10 Exercises

Chapter Interface effects

9.1 Wiener's experiment

9.2 Boundary conditions

9.3 Reflection and refraction at an interface

9.4 Fresnel equations

9.4.1 The s-polarization case

9.4.2 The p-polarization case

9.4.3 Fresnel equations: observations

9.4.4 Total internal reflection

9.5 The Goos-Hänchen effect

9.6 Refraction in complex media

9.7 Refraction in anisotropic media

9.8 Refraction in magnetic materials

9.9 Exercises

Chapter Light propagation in stratified media

10.1 General considerations

10.2 Matrix methods for stratified media

10.3 Single interface

10.4 Single thin films

10.5 Frustrated total internal reflection

10.6 Dielectric mirrors and photonic bandgaps

10.7 Exercises

Chapter Surface plasmons

11.1 Light propagation in a plasma

11.2 Plasma oscillations

11.3 What is a surface plasmon?

11.4 Surface plasmons in Maxwell's equations

11.5 Optical excitation of surface plasmons

11.6 Field enhancement of surface plasmons

11.7 Surface plasmons in thin films

11.8 Extraordinary optical transmission

11.9 Zenneck waves

11.10 Dyakonov waves.

11.11 Exercises

Chapter Metamaterials

12.1 Background

12.2 Negative refraction

12.3 The perfect lens

12.4 Epsilon-near-zero materials

12.5 High-index metamaterials

12.6 Spoof surface plasmons

12.7 Form birefringence

12.8 Exercises

Chapter Guided waves

13.1 General observations

13.2 Hollow metal waveguides

13.2.1 Metallic slab waveguide

13.2.2 Metallic rectangular waveguide

13.2.3 Metallic circular waveguides

13.3 Metallic coaxial waveguides

13.3.1 Nonexistence of TEM modes in hollow waveguides

13.3.2 TEM mode in a metallic coaxial waveguide

13.3.3 TE and TM modes in a metallic coaxial waveguide

13.4 Circular dielectric waveguides

13.4.1 TE modes

13.4.2 TM modes

13.4.3 Hybrid EH and HE modes

13.5 Mode structure of dielectric waveguides

13.6 Optical fibers

13.7 Exercises

Chapter Sources and potentials

14.1 Sources and potentials

14.2 Dyadics

14.3 The general radiation problem

14.4 Multipole sources

14.5 Multipole potentials

14.6 Multipole fields and radiation

14.6.1 Electric dipole fields

14.6.2 Magnetic dipole fields

14.6.3 Electric quadrupole fields

14.7 Higher-order multipoles and spherical waves

14.8 Gauge transformations

14.9 The Aharonov-Bohm experiments

14.10 Exercises

Chapter Electromagnetic scattering

15.1 The electromagnetic Green's dyadics

15.2 Scattering theory

15.3 The Born series

15.4 The optical theorem

15.5 Rayleigh scattering

15.6 Rayleigh-Gans scattering

15.7 Mie scattering

15.8 Inverse problems

15.9 Anapoles

15.10 Exercises

Chapter Computational methods for Maxwell's equations

16.1 The Foldy-Lax method

16.2 Integral equation solutions and the dyadic Green's function.

16.3 The method of moments and the discrete dipole approximation

16.4 Finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) method

16.5 So long, and thanks for all the physics

Chapter

A.1 Vector algebra

A.2 Vector fields

A.3 Vector differentiation

A.4 Vector integration

A.5 Integral theorems

References.

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ISBN:

9780750360661

0750360666