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Light Fantastic: A Modern Introduction to Classical and Quantum Optics <br />
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This book presents a thorough and self-contained introduction to modern optics, <br />
covering in full the three components ray optics, wave optics, and quantum <br />
optics. The text covers all that would be needed over a comprehensive course in <br />
optics at the advanced undergraduate or beginning graduate level. Digital <br />
cameras, LCD screens, aircraft laser gyroscopes, and the optical fibre-based <br />
internet illustrate the penetration of optics in twenty-first century life: <br />
these and many more modern applications are presented from first principles.<br />
The self-contained material allows the selection of specific themes grouped in <br />
the following way: Paraxial ray optics with matrix methods and aberrations - <br />
Interference, coherence and interferometers - Diffraction, spectrometers and <br />
Gaussian beams - Fourier optics, holography and information processing - <br />
Maxwell's theory; scattering, absorption and dispersion in bulk materials; <br />
interface behaviour - Quantum phenomena, wave-particle duality, uncertainty <br />
principle; Schroedinger analysis of spectra, photon properties - Laser <br />
principles, He:Ne to MQW lasers, applications - Detectors: photodiodes, <br />
photomultipliers, image intensifiers; response, noise and linearlty; CCDs -<br />
Fibre optics, from monomode fibre analysis to dense wavelength division <br />
multiplexing; fibre sensors - Photon-atom interactions, optical pumping, cooling <br />
and clocks - Second quantization, photon correlations, SPDC, entanglement, tests <br />
of quantum mechanics.<br />
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Table Of Contents<br />
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1. Introduction<br />
2. Reflection and Refraction at Plane Surfaces<br />
3. Spherical Mirrors and Lenses<br />
4. Optical Instruments<br />
5. Interference Effects and Interferometers<br />
6. Diffraction<br />
7. Fourier Optics<br />
8. Astronomical Telescopes<br />
9. Classical Electromagnetic Theory<br />
10. Polarization<br />
11. Scattering, Absorption, and Dispersion<br />
12. The Quantum Nature of Light and Matter<br />
13. Quantum Mechanics and the Atom<br />
14. Lasers<br />
15. Detectors<br />
16. Optical Fibres<br />
17. Quantum Interactions<br />
18. The Quantized Electromagnetic Field<br />
Appendices<br />
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* ISBN: 0198566468<br />
* ISBN-13: 9780198566465<br />
* Format: Paperback, 640pp<br />
* Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA<br />
* Pub. Date: March 2008<br />
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