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Student Edition
Instructor Edition
OPTICS,Third Edition

AJOY GHATAK, Emeritus Professor,Department of Physics,IIT,Delhi

ISBN: 0070585830
Copyright year: 2005

Table of Contents



1. What Is Light ?

Part 1 GEOMETRICAL OPTICS

2. Fermat’s Principle and its Applications
3. Refraction and Reflection by Spherical Surfaces
4. The Matrix Method in Paraxial Optics
5. Aberrations

Part 2 Vibrations and Waves

6. Simple Harmonic Motion, Forced Vibrations and Origin of Refractive Index
7. Fourier Series and Applications
8. Group Velocity and Pulse Dispersion
9. Wave Propagation and the Wave Equation
10. Huygens’ Principle and its Applications

Part 3 INTERFERENCE

11. Superposition of Waves
12. Two Beam Interference by Division of Wavefront
13. Interference by Division of Amplitude
14. Multiple Beam Interferometry
15. Coherence

Part 4 DIFFRACTION

16. Fraunhofer Diffraction
17. Fresnel Diffraction
18. Holography

Part 5 ELECTROMAGNETIC CHARACTER OF LIGHT

19. Polarization and Double Refraction
20. Electromagnetic Waves
21. Reflection and Refraction of Electromagnetic Waves

Part 6 PHOTONS

22. The Particle Nature of Radiation

Part 7 SOURCES OF COHERENT LIGHT

23. Lasers: An Introduction

Part 8 SOME CONTEMPORARY TOPICS

24. Fiber Optics
25. Introduction to Speckle Metrology

Appendix A Gamma Functions and Integrals Involving Gaussian Functions
Appendix B Diffraction of a Gaussian Beam
Index.

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