The light fantastic: a modern introduction to classical and quantum optics

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

• ISBN: 978-0-19-856646-5
• Editorial: Oxford University
• Encuadernacion: Rústica
• Páginas: 630
• Fecha Publicación: 17/01/2008
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés