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Principles of biophotonics. Volume 3, Field propagation in linear, homogeneous, dispersionless, isotropic media /

This volume aims to familiarize the reader with basic concepts of light propagation in the simplest class of media: linear, homogenous, dispersionless, and isotropic.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Popescu, Gabriel, 1971- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bristol [England] (Temple Circus, Temple Way, Bristol BS1 6HG, UK) : IOP Publishing, [2022]
Colección:IOP (Series). Release 22.
IPEM-IOP series in physics and engineering in medicine and biology.
IOP ebooks. 2022 collection.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. Maxwell's equation in integral form
  • 1.1. Faraday's law
  • 1.2. Ampère's law
  • 1.3. Gauss's law for electric fields
  • 1.4. Gauss's law for magnetic fields
  • 1.5. Problems
  • 2. Maxwell's equations in differential form
  • 2.1. The four main equations
  • 2.2. Constitutive relations
  • 2.3. Maxwell's equations in other representations
  • 2.4. Classification of optical materials
  • 2.5. Boundary conditions
  • 2.6. Reflection and refraction at boundaries
  • 2.7. Characteristic impedance
  • 2.8. Poynting theorem and energy conservation
  • 2.9. Phase, group, and energy velocity
  • 2.10. The wave equation
  • 2.11. Wave equation in other representations
  • 2.12. Problems
  • 3. Propagation of electromagnetic fields
  • 3.1. Dyadic Green's function
  • 3.2. Electric dipole radiation
  • 3.3. Magnetic dipole radiation
  • 3.4. Problems
  • 4. Propagation of scalar fields in free space
  • 4.1. Primary and secondary sources
  • 4.2. 1D Green's function : plane wave
  • 4.3. 2D Green's function : cylindrical wave
  • 4.4. 3D Green's function : spherical wave
  • 4.5. Problems
  • 5. Diffraction of scalar fields
  • 5.1. Diffraction by a 2D object
  • 5.2. Plane wave decomposition of spherical waves : Weyl's formula
  • 5.3. Angular spectrum propagation approximation
  • 5.4. Fresnel approximation
  • 5.5. Fraunhofer approximation
  • 5.6. Fourier properties of lenses
  • 5.7. Problems
  • 6. Geometrical optics
  • 6.1. Applicability of geometrical optics
  • 6.2. WKB approximation : eikonal equation and geometrical optics
  • 6.3. Fermat's principle
  • 6.4. Refraction through curved surfaces
  • 6.5. Reflection by curved mirrors
  • 6.6. Ray propagation (ABCD) matrices
  • 6.7. Problems
  • 7. Gaussian beam propagation
  • 7.1. Definition of a light beam
  • 7.2. Fresnel propagation of Gaussian beams
  • 7.3. Gaussian beam characteristics
  • 7.4. Gaussian beam propagation using ABCD matrices
  • 7.5. Problems
  • 8. Propagation of field correlations
  • 8.1. Heisenberg uncertainty relation and the coherence of light
  • 8.2. Spatiotemporal field correlations
  • 8.3. Coherence mode decomposition of random fields
  • 8.4. Deterministic signal associated with a random stationary field
  • 8.5. Propagation of field correlations : intuitive picture
  • 8.6. Stochastic wave equation
  • 8.7. Wave equation for the deterministic signal associated with a random field
  • 8.8. Propagation of spatial coherence : van Cittert-Zernike theorem
  • 8.9. Problems.