First Course in Laboratory Optics

Informationen zum Autor Andri M. Gretarsson is Associate Professor at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University. A member of the LIGO Collaboration for the detection of gravitational waves, he helped commission the initial detectors and calculated the effect of optical coatings on a range of current and future detectors. He has 15 years' experience teaching laboratory optics. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface; 1. Light Waves; 2. Components and Methods; 3. Geometric Optics; 4. Physical Optics; 5. Interferometry; 6. Lasers; 7. Optical Cavities; 8. Polarization; 9. Optical Noise; Appendix A. Analyzing and Displaying Data With Matlab and Python; Appendix B. Computer Code: Matlab; References; Index.

Product details

• Authors: Andri M. Gretarsson
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.05.2021
• EAN: 9781108488853
• ISBN: 978-1-108-48885-3
• No. of pages: 300
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Physics, astronomy > Miscellaneous; SCIENCE / Physics / Optics & Light, Classical mechanics, Optical physics, Applied optics