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OPTICS, 5/e

Ajoy Ghatak

ISBN: 1259004341
Copyright year: 2012

1. History of Optics

2. What is Light?

Part 1 : Geometrical Optics

3. Fermat's Principle and Its Applications

4. Refraction and Reflection by Spherical Surfaces

5. The Matrix Method in Paraxial Optics

6. Aberrations

Part 2 : Vibrations and Waves

7. Simple Harmonic Motion, Forced Vibrations and Origin of Refractive Index

8. Fourier Series and Applications

9. The Dirac Delta Function and Fourier Transforms

10. Group Velocity and Pulse Dispersion

11. Wave Propagation and the Wave Equation

12. Huygens' Principle and Its Applications

Part 3 : Interference

13. Superposition of Waves

14. Two Beam Interference by Division of Wavefront

15. Interference by Division of Amplitude

16. Multiple Beam Interferometry

17. Coherence

Part 4 : Diffraction

18. Fraunhofer Diffraction I

19. Fraunhofer Diffraction II and Fourier Optics

20. Frensel Diffraction

21. Holography

Part 5 : Electromagnetic Chapter of Light

22. Polarization and Double Refraction

23. Electromagnetic Waves

24. Reflection and Refraction of Electromagnetic Waves

Part 6 : Photons

25. The Particle Nature of Radiation

Part 7 : Lasers & Fiber Optics

26. Lasers: An Introduction

27. Fiber Optics I: Basic Concepts and Ray Optics Considerations

28. Fiber Optics II: Basic Waveguide Theory and Concept of Modes

29. Fiber Optics III: Single Mode Fibers

Part 8 : Special Theory of Relativity

30. Special Theory of Relativity I: Time Dilation and Length Contraction

31. Special Theory of Relativity II: The Mass-Energy Relation

32. Special Theory of Relativity III: Lorentz transformations

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