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Optics f2f from Fourier to Fresnel
This textbook on optics provides an introduction to key concepts of wave optics and light propagation. It uniquely makes extensive use of Fourier methods and the angular-spectrum approach, especially to provide a unified approach to Fraunhofer and Fresnel diffraction. A recurring theme is that simple building blocks such as plane and spherical waves can be summed to construct useful solutions. The text pays particular attention to analysing topics in contemporary optics such as propagation, dispersion, laser beams and wave guides, apodisation, tightly-focused vector fields, unconventional polarization states, and light-matter interactions.
Throughout the text, the principles are applied through worked examples, and the book is copiously illustrated with more than 240 figures. The 200 end-of-chapter exercises offer further opportunities for testing the reader's understanding.
Throughout the text, the principles are applied through worked examples, and the book is copiously illustrated with more than 240 figures. The 200 end-of-chapter exercises offer further opportunities for testing the reader's understanding.
273 pages, Paperback
Published January 1, 2016
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February 12, 2022
Optics f2f, is as the book promises, an introduction to the optics of near-field diffraction (Fresnel), and multi-wave (both plane and spherical) addition to simulate diffraction (Fourier, and Fraunhoffer). This book was great to go over, especially since I might use it to teach students in the near future. Since I only studied basic wave optics, but not Fourier optics in a fully integrated form, I got this book. It's a fun read, and the problems to solve at the end of the chapter might be on the easier side, but they're also very fun as well (not daunting, as many Optics books).
One of the merits of this book is its focus on historical inventions, discoveries, derivations, and so on. This is stuffed in between the physics in a way that makes it more of a page-turner. It has its weird parts (calling the Angular Spectrum Propagation, the Hedgehog Equation(?)) but all in all, very useful and I will return to this every once in a while to revise.
The book focuses on the presentation of waves and fields in an intuitive way, and explains interference, diffraction, polarization, as interference between waves from the onset. This is unlike many laser and optics textbook which relegate the Physical Optics topics to the end of the book. There are chapters on imaging, laser-beam propagation, coherence, optical properties of materials, and nonlinear optics, added for those who want a well-rounded exposition.
I really REALLY think this book would be perfect for a first course in Optics, and would use it to teach my students.
One of the merits of this book is its focus on historical inventions, discoveries, derivations, and so on. This is stuffed in between the physics in a way that makes it more of a page-turner. It has its weird parts (calling the Angular Spectrum Propagation, the Hedgehog Equation(?)) but all in all, very useful and I will return to this every once in a while to revise.
The book focuses on the presentation of waves and fields in an intuitive way, and explains interference, diffraction, polarization, as interference between waves from the onset. This is unlike many laser and optics textbook which relegate the Physical Optics topics to the end of the book. There are chapters on imaging, laser-beam propagation, coherence, optical properties of materials, and nonlinear optics, added for those who want a well-rounded exposition.
I really REALLY think this book would be perfect for a first course in Optics, and would use it to teach my students.
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