Introduction to optics

✍ Scribed by Frank J. Pedrotti, Leno S. Pedrotti

• Book ID: 127429086
• Publisher: Prentice Hall
• Year: 1993
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 8 MB
• Edition: 2nd ed
• Category: Library
• City: Englewood Cliffs, N.J
• ISBN-13: 9780135015452

✦ Synopsis

This is a comprehensive, applications-oriented introduction to geometrical optics, wave optics, and modern optics. Contains new chapters on laser beam characteristics and nonlinear optics; expanded coverage of fiber optics; new sections on ray tracing, thick lens, the Doppler effect, and evanescent waves; and valuable coverage of matrix treatment of polarization, Fraunhofer diffraction, Fourier optics, and more. An ideal introductory guide for the physics instructor, specifically those concentrating on optics.