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Optical technology is essential to communications and medical technology. K.K. Sharma has written a comprehensive volume on optics. Beginning with introductory ideas and equations, Sharma takes the reader through the world of optics detailing problems encountered, advanced subjects, and actual applications. Elegantly written, this book rigorously examines optics with over 300 illustrations and several problems in each chapter. The book begins with light propagation in anisotropic media considered much later in most books. Sharma has started with this because it provides a more general and beautiful example of light propagation. Zusammenfassung Optical technology is essential to communications and medical technology. This book takes the reader through the world of optics detailing problems encountered! advanced subjects! and actual applications.
List of contents
1: Light Waves
2: Coherence of Light Waves
3: Polarization of Light Waves
4: Geometrical Optics
5: Lens Aberrations
6: Interference of Light Waves
7: Diffractions of Light
8: Fresnel Diffraction
9: The Fourier Transform
10 Fraunhofer Diffraction
11: Image Formation and Optical Processing
12: Transfer Functions
13: Holography
14: Nonlinear Optics
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" Optics: Principles and Applications is geared toward engineering and physics students and professionals, detailing topics such as holography, geometric optics, Fourier transforms, Fraunhofer and Fresnel diffraction, the coherence of light waves and light propagation in anisotropic media." -- BioPhotonics International, December 2006
