Research Catalog

Title

Physical optics / Alan Rolf Mickelson.

Author

Mickelson, Alan Rolf, 1950-

Publication

New York, N.Y. : Van Nostrand Reinhold, ©1992.

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Details

Description

xiv, 345 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Subject

• Physical optics
• Optik

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

1. Introduction -- 1.1. About Physical Optics -- 1.2. The Electromagnetic Spectrum -- 1.3. Overview of the Following Chapters -- 2. Maxwell's Equations and Plane Wave Propagation -- 2.1. Introduction -- 2.2. Some Preliminaries -- 2.3. Monochromatic Plane Waves -- 2.4. Polychromatic Plane Waves -- 2.5. Propagation in Polarizing Optical Systems -- 2.6. Striated Media -- 3. Material Polarization and Dispersion -- 3.1. Introduction -- 3.2. Complexity in the Microscopic World -- 3.3. A Derivation of the Lorentz-Lorenz Relation -- 3.4. The Spring Model of Matter -- 3.5. Wave Propagation in Dispersive Media -- 3.6. Macroscopic Models of More Exotic Effects -- 4. Wave Propagation in Anisotropic Media -- 4.1. Introduction -- 4.2. Microscopic Basis for the Existence of an Index Tensor -- 4.3. Fresnel's and the Index Ellipsoids -- 4.4. The Normal Surface and the Ray Surface -- 4.5. Some Propagation Effects in Crystals -- 4.6. Some Polarization Devices -- 5. Geometrical Optics -- 5.1. Introduction -- 5.2. The WKB Approximation as it Relates to Geometrical Optics -- 5.3. The Eikonal Equation -- 5.4. Energy Flow and Radiometry -- 5.5. Paraxial Ray Optics -- 5.6. About Optical Instruments -- 5.7. Phase Space and Liouville's Theorem -- 6. Interference -- 6. 1. Introduction -- 6.2. The Michelson Interferometer -- 6.3. Other Interferometers -- 6.4. The Fabry-Perot Interferometer -- 6.5. Young's Interferometer and Spatial Coherence -- 6.6. Hanbury-Brown and Twiss Interferometer -- 7. Diffraction -- 7.1. Introduction -- 7.2. Green's Theorem and Scalar Diffraction -- 7.3. Rayleigh-Sommerfeld Theory -- 7.4. Van Cittert-Zernicke Theorem -- 7.5. Diffraction Gratings and Spectrometers.

ISBN

• 0442006144
• 9780442006143

LCCN

91042420

OCLC

• ocm24871849
• 24871849
• SCSB-9215359

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library