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Title: THE LIGHT FANTASTIC
A MODERN INTRODUCTION TO CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM OPTICS
By: Ian Kenyon
Format: Paperback

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ISBN 10: 0198566468
ISBN 13: 9780198566465
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Publisher: OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Pub. date: 17 January, 2008
Pages: 654
Description: A thorough and self-contained introduction to modern optics, covering in full the three components: ray optics, wave optics and quantum optics. Examples of modern applications in the current century are used extensively. The text covers all that would be needed over a comprehensive course in optics.
Synopsis: 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: these and 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.
Illustrations: 463 line drawings and 7 halftones
Publication: UK
Imprint: Oxford University Press
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