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Principles of optics : electromagnetic theory of propagation, interference and diffraction of light
- Title
- Principles of optics : electromagnetic theory of propagation, interference and diffraction of light / by Max Born and Emil Wolf ; with contributions by A.B. Bhatia [and others].
- Author
- Born, Max, 1882-1970.
- Publication
- Oxford ; New York : Pergamon Press, 1965.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Use in library | 8272.199.23 | Off-site |
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- Additional Authors
- Wolf, Emil
- Description
- xxviii, 808 pages : illustrations; 25 cm
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Textbooks (form)
- Bibliography (note)
- Bibliographical footnotes.
- Contents
- Basic properties of the electromagnetic field -- Electromagnetic potentials and polarization -- Foundations of geometrical optics -- Geometrical theory of optical imaging -- Geometrical theory of aberrations -- Image-forming instruments -- Elements of the theory of interference and interferometers -- Elements of the theory of diffraction -- The diffraction theory of aberrations -- Interference and diffraction with partially coherent light -- Rigorous diffraction theory -- Diffraction of light by ultrasonic waves -- Optics of metals -- Optics of crystals -- Appendices. I. The calculus of variations -- II. Light optics, electron optics and wave mechanics -- III. Asymptotic approximations to integrals -- IV. The Dirac delta function -- V.A mathematical lemma used in the rigorous derivation of the Lorentz-Lorenz law -- VI. Propagation of discontinuities in an electromagnetic field -- VII. The circle polynomials of Zernike -- VIII. Proof of an inequality -- IX. Evaluation of two integrals.
- LCCN
- 66002811
- OCLC
- ocm00535549
- 535549
- SCSB-420354
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library