TY  - BOOK
AU  - Born,Max
AU  - Wolf,Emil
TI  - Principles of Optics: Electromagnetic Theory of Propagation, Interference and Diffraction of Light
SN  - 9781483103204
AV  - QC355.2 -- .B676 1980eb 
U1  - 535 
PY  - 1980///
CY  - Saint Louis
PB  - Elsevier Science & Technology
KW  - Optics
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Front Cover -- Principles of Optics: Electromagnetic Theory of Propagation, Interference and Diffraction of Light -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- HISTORICAL INTRODUCTION -- CHAPTER I. BASIC PROPERTIES OF THE ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD -- 1.1. The Electromagnetic Field -- 1.2. The Wave Equation and the Velocity of Light -- 1.3. Scalar Waves -- 1.4. Vector Waves -- 1.5. Reflection and Refraction of a Plane Wave -- 1.6. Wave Propagation in a Stratified Medium. Theory of Dielectric Films -- CHAPTER II. ELECTROMAGNETIC POTENTIALS AND POLARIZATION -- 2.1. The Electrodynamic Potentials in the Vacuum -- 2.2. Polarization and Magnetization -- 2.3. The Lorentz-Lorenz Formula and Elementary Dispersion Theory -- 2.4. Propagation of Electromagnetic Waves Treated by Integral Equations -- CHAPTER III. FOUNDATIONS OF GEOMETRICAL OPTICS -- 3.1. Approximation for Very Short Wavelengths -- 3.2. General Properties of Rays -- 3.3. Other Basic Theorems of Geometrical Optics -- CHAPTER IV. GEOMETRICAL THEORY OF OPTICAL IMAGING -- 4.1. The Characteristic Functions of Hamilton -- 4.2. Perfect Imaging -- 4.3. Projective Transformation (Collineation) with Axial Symmetry -- 4.4. Gaussian Optics -- 4.5. Stigmatic Imaging with Wide-angle Pencils -- 4.6. Astigmatic Pencils of Rays -- 4.7. Chromatic Aberration. Dispersion by a Prism -- 4.8. Photometry and Apertures -- 4.9. Ray Tracing -- 4.10. Design of Aspheric Surfaces -- CHAPTER V. GEOMETRICAL THEORY OF ABERRATIONS -- 5.1. Wave and Ray Aberrations -- the Aberration Function -- 5.2. The Perturbation Eikonal of Schwarzschild -- 5.3. The Primary (Seidel) Aberrations -- 5.4. Addition Theorem for the Primary Aberrations -- 5.5. The Primary Aberration Coefficients of a General Centred Lens System -- 5.6. Example : The Primary Aberrations of a Thin Lens -- 5.7. The Chromatic Aberration of a General Centred Lens System; CHAPTER VI. IMAGE-FORMING INSTRUMENTS -- 6.1. The Eye -- 6.2. The Camera -- 6.3. The Refracting Telescope -- 6.4. The Reflecting Telescope -- 6.5. Instruments of Illumination -- 6.6. The Microscope -- CHAPTER VII. ELEMENTS OF THE THEORY OF INTERFERENCE AND INTERFEROMETERS -- 7.1. Introduction -- 7.2. Interference of Two Monochromatic Waves -- 7.3. Two-beam Interference : Division of Wave-front -- 7.4. Standing Waves -- 7.5. Two-beam Interference: Division of Amplitude -- 7.6. Multiple-beam Interference -- 7.7. The Comparison of Wavelengths with the Standard Metre -- CHAPTER VIII. ELEMENTS OF THE THEORY OF DIFFRACTION -- 8.1. Introduction -- 8.2. The Huygens-Fresnel Principle -- 8.3. Kirchhoff's Diffraction Theory -- 8.4. Transition to a Scalar Theory -- 8.5. Fraunhofer Diffraction at Apertures of Various Forms -- 8.6. Fraunhofer Diffraction in Optical Instruments -- 8.7. Fresnel Diffraction at a Straight Edge -- 8.8. The Three-dimensional Light Distribution near Focus -- 8.9. The Boundary Diffraction Wave -- 8.10. Gabor's Method of Imaging by Reconstructed Wave-fronts(Holography) -- CHAPTER IX. THE DIFFRACTION THEORY OF ABERRATIONS -- 9.1. The Diffraction Integral in the Presence of Aberrations -- 9.2. Expansion of the Aberration Function -- 9.3. Tolerance Conditions for Primary Aberrations -- 9.4.The Diffraction Pattern Associated with a Single Aberration -- 9.5. Imaging of Extended Objects -- CHAPTER X. INTERFERENCE AND DIFFRACTION WITH PARTIALLY COHERENT LIGHT -- 10.1. Introduction -- 10.2. A Complex Representation of Real Polychromatic Fields -- 10.3. The Correlation Functions of Light Beams -- 10.4. Interference and Diffraction with Quasi-monochromatic Light -- 10.5. Some Applications -- 10.6. Some Theorems Relating to Mutual Coherence -- 10.7. Rigorous Theory of Partial Coherence -- 10.8. Polarization Properties of Quasi-monochromatic Light; CHAPTER XI. RIGOROUS DIFFRACTION THEORY -- 11.1. Introduction -- 11.2. Boundary Conditions and Surface Currents -- 11.3. Diffraction by a Plane Screen: Electromagnetic Form of Babinet's Principle -- 11.4. Two-dimensional Diffraction by a Plane Screen -- 11.5. Two-dimensional Diffraction of a Plane Wave by a Half-plane -- 11.6. Three-dimensional Diffraction of a Plane Wave by a Half-plane -- 11.7. Diffraction of a Localized Source by a Half-plane -- 11.8. Other Problems -- 11.9. Uniqueness of Solution -- CHAPTER XII. DIFFRACTION OF LIGHT BY ULTRASONIC WAVES -- 12.1. Qualitative Description of the Phenomenon and Summary of Theories Based on Maxwell's Differential Equations -- 12.2. Diffraction of Light by Ultrasonic Waves as Treated by the Integral Equation Method -- CHAPTER XIII. OPTICS OF METALS -- 13.1. Wave Propagation in a Conductor -- 13.2. Refraction and Reflection at a Metal Surface -- 13.3. Elementary Electron Theory of the Optical Constants of Metals -- 13.4. Wave Propagation in a Stratified Conducting Medium. Theory of Metallic Films -- 13.5. Diffraction by a Conducting Sphere -- Theory of Mie -- CHAPTER XIV. OPTICS OF CRYSTALS -- 14.1. The Dielectric Tensor of an Anisotropic Medium -- 14.2. The Structure of a Monochromatic Plane Wave in an Anisotropic Medium -- 14.3. Optical Properties of Uniaxial and Biaxial Crystals -- 14.4. Measurements in Crystal Optics -- 14.5. Stress Birefringence and Form Birefringence -- 14.6. Absorbing Crystals -- APPENDICES: -- I. The Calculus of Variations -- II. Light Optics, Electron Optics and Wave Mechanics -- III. Asymptotic Approximations to Integrals -- IV. The Dirac Delta Function -- V. A Mathematical Lemma used in the Rigorous Derivation of the Lorentz-Lorenz Law (2.4.2) -- VI. Propagation of Discontinuities in an Electromagnetic Field (3.1.1) -- VII. The Circle Polynomials of Zernike ( 9.2.1); VIII. Proof of an Inequality ( 10.7.3) -- IX. Evaluation of Two Integrals ( 12.2.2) -- AUTHOR INDEX -- SUBJECT INDEX
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