The world of Optics is changing at the speed of light with the latest advancements in Photonics and related fields. Subsequently, the knowledge of optics and photonics has become so important that an undergraduate course on optics and photonics has become essential not only for students of physics but of engineering as well. This signals the need for strengthening its fundamentals through a textbook on Optics.
Optics walks a tightrope between the mathematics and concepts. The demand of mathematics involved in the textbook, as it is of most concern, is just at the right level for most undergraduates. In addition, many examples of detailed, almost step-by-step derivation make this textbook ideal for self-studying.
The content-organization of the book, Ghatak: Optics, reflects the historical developments in the field of Optics and Photonics. It covers virtually all the topics in Optics, from Geometrical Optics, Wave Optics, and Photonics to Speckle Metrology.
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1. History of Optics
2. What is Light?
Part 1 Geometrical Optics
3. Fermat's Principle and Its Applications
4. Refraction and Reflection by Spherical Surfaces
5. The Matrix Method in Paraxial Optics
6. Aberrations
Part 2 Vibrations and Waves
7. Simple Harmonic Motion, Forced Vibrations and Origin of Refractive Index
8. Fourier Series and Applications
9. The Dirac Delta Function and Fourier Transforms
10. Group Velocity and Pulse Dispersion
11. Wave Propagation and the Wave Equation
12. Huygens' Principle and Its Applications
Part 3 Interference
13. Superposition of Waves
14. Two Beam Interference by Division of Wavefront
15. Interference by Division of Amplitude
16. Multiple Beam Interferometry
17. Coherence
Part 4 Diffraction
18. Fraunhofer Diffraction: I
19. Fraunhofer Diffraction: II and Fourier Optics
20. Fresnel Diffraction
21. Holography
Part 5 Electromagnetic Character of Light
22. Polarization and Double Refraction
23. Electromagnetic Waves
24. Reflection and Refraction of Electromagnetic Waves
Part 6 Photons
25. The Particle Nature of Radiation
Part 7 Lasers & Fiber Optics
26. Lasers: An Introduction
27. Fiber Optics I: Basic Concepts and Ray Optics Considerations
28. Fiber Optics II: Basic Waveguide Theory and Concept of Modes
29. Fiber Optics III: Single Mode Fibers
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