1. What Is Light ?
Part 1 GEOMETRICAL OPTICS
2. Fermat’s Principle and its Applications
3. Refraction and Reflection by Spherical Surfaces
4. The Matrix Method in Paraxial Optics
5. Aberrations
Part 2 Vibrations and Waves
6. Simple Harmonic Motion, Forced Vibrations and Origin of Refractive Index
7. Fourier Series and Applications
8. Group Velocity and Pulse Dispersion
9. Wave Propagation and the Wave Equation
10. Huygens’ Principle and its Applications
Part 3 INTERFERENCE
11. Superposition of Waves
12. Two Beam Interference by Division of Wavefront
13. Interference by Division of Amplitude
14. Multiple Beam Interferometry
15. Coherence
Part 4 DIFFRACTION
16. Fraunhofer Diffraction
17. Fresnel Diffraction
18. Holography
Part 5 ELECTROMAGNETIC CHARACTER OF LIGHT
19. Polarization and Double Refraction
20. Electromagnetic Waves
21. Reflection and Refraction of Electromagnetic Waves
Part 6 PHOTONS
22. The Particle Nature of Radiation
Part 7 SOURCES OF COHERENT LIGHT
23. Lasers: An Introduction
Part 8 SOME CONTEMPORARY TOPICS
24. Fiber Optics
25. Introduction to Speckle Metrology
Appendix A Gamma Functions and Integrals Involving Gaussian Functions
Appendix B Diffraction of a Gaussian Beam
Index.
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