Principles of Applied Optics [antikvár]

Optics is a growing field. This activity reaches into most scientific and engineering disciplines, and there is currently a definite need in academia as well as in industry for qualified individuals who are trained in the optical sciences. In writing this book, we have directed our efforts to familiarizing seniors and first-year graduate students in engineering and physics to principles and applications in modern optics. Readers should realize that this is not, therefore, an exclusive treatise on optics. Neither is it supposed to be confined to a specialized area such as Fourier optics or optical electronics. It is our hope that this book will stimulate the readers' generál interest as well as provide them with a broad background in optics. The principal objective of the book is to provide a comprehensive approach to the broad field of optics. The main topics covered are geometrical and physical optics, the Fourier-transforming property of lenses, and optical information processing (including complex spatial filtering and holography), acoustooptic and electrooptic effects, principles of lasers and photodetectors, and somé topics from nonlinear optics (such as harmonic generation, phase conjugation, and optical bistability). The material in this book is intended for a two-semester sequence of courses with somé supplementary notes from the instructor. Chapters 1 through 5 are suitable for a course in optical information processing, and Chapters 6 through 8, with a brief review of Chapters 3 through 5, are appropriate for a course in optoelectronics. Parts of the text were