Oxford University Press, 2008, 630 pages, ISBN: 019856645X
This book presents a thorough and self-contained introduction to modern optics, covering in full the three components ray optics, wave optics, and quantum optics. The text covers all that would be needed over a comprehensive course in optics at the advanced undergraduate or beginning graduate level. Digital cameras, LCD screens, aircraft laser gyroscopes, and the optical fibre-based internet illustrate the penetration of optics in twenty-first century life: these and many more modern applications are presented from first principles.
Reflection and refraction at plane surfaces
Spherical mirrors and lenses
Optical instruments
Interference effects and interferometers
Diffraction
Fourier optics
Astronomical telescopes
Classical electromagnetic theory
Polarization
Scattering, absorption and dispersion
The quantum nature of light and matter
Quantum mechanics and the atom
Lasers
Detectors
Optical fibres
Quantum interactions
The quantized electromagnetic field