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Title

Optics : learning by computing, with examples using MathCad / K.D. Möller.

Author

Möller, Karl Dieter, 1927-

Publication

New York : Springer, 2002.

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Description

xvi, 443 pages; 24 cm.

Series Statement

Undergraduate texts in contemporary physics

Uniform Title

Undergraduate texts in contemporary physics.

Subjects

• Geometrical optics > Data processing
• MathCAD

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• 1. Geometrical Optics -- 1.1. Introduction -- 1.2. Fermat's Principle and the Law of Refraction -- 1.3. Prisms -- 1.4. Convex Spherical Surfaces -- 1.5. Concave Spherical Surfaces -- 1.6. Thin Lens Equation -- 1.7. Optical Instruments -- 1.8. Matrix Formulation for Thick Lenses -- 1.9. Plane and Spherical Mirrors -- 1.10. Matrices for a Reflecting Cavity and the Eigenvalue Problem -- 2. Interference -- 2.1. Introduction -- 2.2. Harmonic Waves -- 2.3. Superposition of Harmonic Waves -- 2.4. Two-Beam Wavefront Dividing Interferometry -- 2.5. Two-Beam Amplitude Dividing Interferometry -- 2.6. Multiple Beam Interferometry -- 2.7. Random Arrangement of Source Points -- 3. Diffraction -- 3.1. Introduction -- 3.2. Kirchhoff-Fresnel Integral -- 3.3. Fresnel Diffraction, Far Field Approximation, and Fraunhofer Observation -- 3.4. Far Field and Fraunhofer Diffraction -- 3.5. Babinet's Theorem -- 3.6. Apertures in Random Arrangement --
• 3.7. Fresnel Diffraction -- 4. Coherence -- 4.1. Spatial Coherence -- 4.2. Temporal Coherence -- 5. Maxwell's Theory -- 5.1. Introduction -- 5.2. Harmonic Plane Waves and the Superposition Principle -- 5.3. Differentiation Operation -- 5.4. Poynting Vector in Vacuum -- 5.5. Electromagnetic Waves in an Isotropic Nonconducting Medium -- 5.6. Fresnel's Formulas -- 5.7. Polarized Light -- 6. Maxwell II. Modes and Mode Propagation -- 6.1. Introduction -- 6.2. Stratified Media -- 6.3. Guided Waves by Total Internal Reflection Through a Planar Waveguide -- 6.4. Fiber Optics Waveguides -- 7. Blackbody Radiation, Atomic Emission, and Lasers -- 7.1. Introduction -- 7.2. Blackbody Radiaton -- 7.3. Atomic Emission -- 7.4. Bandwidth -- 7.5. Lasers -- 7.6. Confocal Cavity, Gaussian Beam, and Modes -- 8. Optical Constants -- 8.1. Introduction -- 8.2. Optical Constants of Dielectrics -- 8.3. Determination of Optical Constants --
• 8.4. Optical Constants of Metals -- 9. Fourier Transformation and FT-Spectroscopy -- 9.1. Fourier Transformation -- 9.2. Fourier Transform Spectroscopy -- 10. Imaging Using Wave Theory -- 10.1. Introduction -- 10.2. Spatial Waves and Blackening Curves, Spatial Frequencies, and Fourier Transformation -- 10.3. Object, Image, and the Two Fourier Transformations -- 10.4. Image Formation Using Incoherent Light -- 10.5. Image Formation with Coherent Light -- 10.6. Holography -- 11. Aberration -- 11.1. Introduction -- 11.2. Spherical Aberration of a Single Refracting Surface -- 11.3. Longitudinal and Lateral Spherical Aberration of a Thin Lens -- 11.4. The [pi]-[sigma] Equation and Spherical Aberration -- 11.5. Coma -- 11.6. Aplanatic Lens -- 11.7. Astigmatism -- 11.8. Chromatic Aberration and the Achromatic Doublet -- 11.9. Chromatic Aberration and the Achromatic Doublet with Separated Lenses. App. A. About Graphs and Matrices in Mathcad.

ISBN

0387953604 (alk. paper)

LCCN

2001053050

OCLC

• 506224288
• ocn506224288
• SCSB-4332777

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries