Description
Optical technology is essential to communications and medical technology. K.K. Sharma has written a comprehensive volume on optics. Beginning with introductory ideas and equations, Sharma takes the reader through the world of optics detailing problems encountered, advanced subjects, and actual applications. Elegantly written, this book rigorously examines optics with over 300 illustrations and several problems in each chapter. The book begins with light propagation in anisotropic media considered much later in most books. Sharma has started with this because it provides a more general and beautiful example of light propagation.
Nearly one third of the book deals with applications of optics. This simple idea of merging the sometimes overwhelming and dry subject of optics with real world applications will create better future engineers. It will make 'optics' jump off the page for readers and they will see it take shape in the world around them. In presenting optics practically, as well as theoretically, readers will come away not only with a complete knowledge base but a context in which to place it.
Table of Contents
Chapter 1: Light Waves
Chapter 2: Coherence of Light Waves
Chapter 3: Polarization of Light Waves
Chapter 4: Geometrical Optics
Chapter 5: Lens Aberrations
Chapter 6: Interference of Light Waves
Chapter 7: Diffractions of Light
Chapter 8: Fresnel Diffraction
Chapter 9: The Fourier Transform
Chapter 10: Fraunhofer Diffraction
Chapter 11: Image Formation and Optical Processing
Chapter 12: Transfer Functions
Chapter 13: Holography
Chapter 14: Nonlinear Optics