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Abstract
For courses in Optics
A Contemporary Approach to Optics with Practical Applications and New Focused Pedagogy
Hecht Optics balances theory and instrumentation and provides students with the necessary classical background through a lively and clear narrative.
Optics, Fifth Edition is distinguished by three core imperatives: up-to-date content in line with the ever-evolving technological advances in the Optics field; a modern approach to discourse including studies on photons, phasors, and theory; and improvements and revisions to the previous edition’s pedagogy including over one hundred new worked examples.
Sustaining market leadership for over twenty years, Optics, Fifth Edition continues to demonstrate range and balance in subject matter. The text is grounded in traditional methodology, while providing an early introduction to the powerful perspective of the Fourier theory, which is crucial to present-day analysis. Electron and neutron diffraction patterns are pictured alongside the customary photon images, and every piece of art has been scrutinized for accuracy and altered where appropriate to improve clarity.
Table of Contents
| Section Title | Page | Action | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cover | Cover | ||
| Title Page | 1 | ||
| Copyright Page | 2 | ||
| Preface | 3 | ||
| Contents | 7 | ||
| 1. A Brief History | 9 | ||
| 1.1. Prolegomenon | 9 | ||
| 1.2. In the Beginning | 9 | ||
| 1.3. From the Seventeenth Century | 10 | ||
| 1.4. The Nineteenth Century | 12 | ||
| 1.5. Twentieth-Century Optics | 15 | ||
| 2. Wave Motion | 18 | ||
| 2.1. One-Dimensional Waves | 18 | ||
| 2.2. Harmonic Waves | 22 | ||
| 2.3. Phase and Phase Velocity | 26 | ||
| 2.4. The Superposition Principle | 28 | ||
| 2.5. The Complex Representation | 30 | ||
| 2.6. Phasors and the Addition of Waves | 31 | ||
| 2.7. Plane Waves | 32 | ||
| 2.8. The Three-Dimensional Differential Wave Equation | 36 | ||
| 2.9. Spherical Waves | 37 | ||
| 2.10. Cylindrical Waves | 39 | ||
| 2.11. Twisted Light | 39 | ||
| Problems | 41 | ||
| 3. Electromagnetic Theory, Photons, and Light | 45 | ||
| 3.1. Basic Laws of Electromagnetic Theory | 46 | ||
| 3.2. Electromagnetic Waves | 54 | ||
| 3.3. Energy and Momentum | 57 | ||
| 3.4. Radiation | 69 | ||
| 3.5. Light in Bulk Matter | 76 | ||
| 3.6. The Electromagnetic-Photon Spectrum | 83 | ||
| 3.7. Quantum Field Theory | 90 | ||
| Problems | 92 | ||
| 4. The Propagation of Light | 96 | ||
| 4.1. Introduction | 96 | ||
| 4.2. Rayleigh Scattering | 96 | ||
| 4.3. Reflection | 104 | ||
| 4.4. Refraction | 108 | ||
| 4.5. Fermat’s Principle | 117 | ||
| 4.6. The Electromagnetic Approach | 121 | ||
| 4.7. Total Internal Reflection | 133 | ||
| 4.8. Optical Properties of Metals | 139 | ||
| 4.9. Familiar Aspects of the Inter action of Light and Matter | 142 | ||
| 4.10. The Stokes Treatment of Reflection and Refraction | 147 | ||
| 4.11. Photons, Waves, and Probability | 148 | ||
| Problems | 151 | ||
| 5. Geometrical Optics | 159 | ||
| 5.1. Introductory Remarks | 159 | ||
| 5.2. Lenses | 159 | ||
| 5.3. Stops | 183 | ||
| 5.4. Mirrors | 188 | ||
| 5.5. Prisms | 199 | ||
| 5.6. Fiberoptics | 204 | ||
| 5.7. Optical Systems | 215 | ||
| 5.8. Wavefront Shaping | 239 | ||
| 5.9. Gravitational Lensing | 244 | ||
| Problems | 246 | ||
| 6. More on Geometrical Optics | 255 | ||
| 6.1. Thick Lenses and Lens Systems | 255 | ||
| 6.2. Analytical Ray Tracing | 259 | ||
| 6.3. Aberrations | 266 | ||
| 6.4. GRIN Systems | 284 | ||
| 6.5. Concluding Remarks | 286 | ||
| Problems | 286 | ||
| 7. The Superposition of Waves | 290 | ||
| 7.1. The Addition of Waves of the Same Frequency | 291 | ||
| 7.2. The Addition of Waves of Different Frequency | 302 | ||
| 7.3. Anharmonic Periodic Waves | 308 | ||
| 7.4. Nonperiodic Waves | 318 | ||
| Problems | 332 | ||
| 8. Polarization | 338 | ||
| 8.1. The Nature of Polarized Light | 338 | ||
| 8.2. Polarizers | 346 | ||
| 8.3. Dichroism | 347 | ||
| 8.4. Birefringence | 351 | ||
| 8.5. Scattering and Polarization | 361 | ||
| 8.6. Polarization by Reflection | 363 | ||
| 8.7. Retarders | 366 | ||
| 8.8. Circular Polarizers | 373 | ||
| 8.9. Polarization of Polychromatic Light | 374 | ||
| 8.10. Optical Activity | 375 | ||
| 8.11. Induced Optical Effects—Optical Modulators | 380 | ||
| 8.12. Liquid Crystals | 384 | ||
| 8.13. A Mathematical Description of Polarization | 387 | ||
| Problems | 392 | ||
| 9. Interference | 398 | ||
| 9.1. General Considerations | 398 | ||
| 9.2. Conditions for Interference | 402 | ||
| 9.3. Wavefront-Splitting Interferometers | 405 | ||
| 9.4. Amplitude-Splitting Interferometers | 416 | ||
| 9.5. Types and Localization of Interference Fringes | 432 | ||
| 9.6. Multiple-Beam Interference | 433 | ||
| 9.7. Applications of Single and Multilayer Films | 441 | ||
| 9.8. Applications of Interferometry | 446 | ||
| Problems | 452 | ||
| 10. Diffraction | 457 | ||
| 10.1. Preliminary Considerations | 457 | ||
| 10.2. Fraunhofer Diffraction | 465 | ||
| 10.3. Fresnel Diffraction | 505 | ||
| 10.4. Kirchhoff’s Scalar Diffraction Theory | 532 | ||
| 10.5. Boundary Diffraction Waves | 535 | ||
| Problems | 536 | ||
| 11. Fourier Optics | 542 | ||
| 11.1. Introduction | 542 | ||
| 11.2. Fourier Transforms | 542 | ||
| 11.3. Optical Applications | 552 | ||
| Problems | 583 | ||
| 12. Basics of Coherence Theory | 588 | ||
| 12.1. Introduction | 588 | ||
| 12.2. Fringes and Coherence | 590 | ||
| 12.3. Visibility | 594 | ||
| 12.4. The Mutual Coherence Function and the Degree of Coherence | 597 | ||
| 12.5. Coherence and Stellar Interferometry | 603 | ||
| Problems | 609 | ||
| 13. Modern Optics: Lasers and Other Topics | 612 | ||
| 13.1. Lasers and Laserlight | 612 | ||
| 13.2. Imagery—The Spatial Distribution of Optical Information | 638 | ||
| 13.3. Holography | 652 | ||
| 13.4. Nonlinear Optics | 667 | ||
| Problems | 672 | ||
| Appendix 1: Electromagnetic Theory | 677 | ||
| Appendix 2: The Kirchhoff Diffraction Theory | 680 | ||
| Table 1 | 681 | ||
| Solutions to Selected Problems | 685 | ||
| Bibliography | 708 | ||
| Index | 712 | ||
| List of Tables | 722 | ||
| Back Cover | 729 |