Classical Optics and its Applications

Covering a broad range of fundamental topics in classical optics and electro-magnetism, this updated, second edition contains 13 new chapters, which cover many topics of fundamental significance as well as practical importance. The first half of the book deals primarily with the basic concepts of optics, while the second half describes how these concepts can be used in a variety of technological applications. Each chapter is concerned with a single topic, developing an understanding of the subject through the use of diagrams, examples, numerical simulations, and logical arguments. The mathematical content is kept to a minimum to provide the reader with insightful discussions of optical phenomena.

Masud Mansuripur is Professor of Optical Sciences at the University of Arizona, and has been a contributing editor of Optics Photonics News, the magazine of the Optical Society of America.

Preface to the second English edition	p. ix
Preface to the first edition	p. xi
Introduction	p. 1
Abbe's sine condition	p. 9
Fourier optics	p. 23
Effect of polarization on diffraction in systems of high numerical aperture	p. 45
Gaussian beam optics	p. 52
Coherent and incoherent imaging	p. 62
First-order temporal coherence in classical optics	p. 74
The van Cittert-Zernike theorem	p. 88
Partial polarization, Stokes parameters, and the Poincare sphere	p. 100
Second-order coherence and the Hanbury Brown-Twiss experiment	p. 113
What in the world are surface plasmons?	p. 128
Surface plasmon polaritons on metallic surfaces	p. 139
The Faraday effect	p. 152
The magneto-optical Kerr effect	p. 166
The Sagnac interferometer	p. 182
Fabry-Perot etalons in polarized light	p. 197
The Ewald-Oseen extinction theorem	p. 209
Reciprocity in classical linear optics	p. 224
Optical pulse compression	p. 240
The uncertainty principle in classical optics	p. 258
Omni-directional dielectric mirrors	p. 274
Linear optical vortices	p. 289
Geometric-optical rays, Poynting's vector, and the field momenta	p. 301
Doppler shift, stellar aberration, and convection of light by moving media	p. 310
Diffraction gratings	p. 323
Diffractive optical elements	p. 351
The Talbot effect	p. 367
Some quirks of total internal reflection	p. 379
Evanescent coupling	p. 387
Internal and external conical refraction	p. 404
Transmission of light through small elliptical apertures	p. 418
The method of Fox and Li	p. 447
The beam propagation method	p. 459
Launching light into a fiber	p. 476
The optics of semiconductor diode lasers	p. 489
Michelson's stellar interferometer	p. 505
Bracewell's interferometric telescope	p. 515
Scanning optical microscopy	p. 525
Zernike's method of phase contrast	p. 545
Polarization microscopy	p. 554
Nomarski's differential interference contrast microscope	p. 566
The van Leeuwenhoek microscope	p. 576
Projection photolithography	p. 586
Interaction of light with subwavelength structures	p. 599
The Ronchi test	p. 614
The Shack-Hartmann wavefront sensor	p. 624
Ellipsometry	p. 632
Holography and holographic interferometry	p. 642
Self-focusing in nonlinear optical media	p. 654
Spatial optical solitons	p. 664
Laser heating of multilayer stacks	p. 678
Index	p. 691
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