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Optics experiments and demonstrations for student laboratories /
This book provides a comprehensive guide to a wide range of optical experiments. Topics covered include classical geometrical and physical optics, polarization, scattering and diffraction, imaging, interference, wave propagation, optical properties of materials, atmospheric and relativistic optics....
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Bristol [England] (Temple Circus, Temple Way, Bristol BS1 6HG, UK) :
IOP Publishing,
[2020]
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| Colección: | IOP series in emerging technologies in optics and photonics.
IOP ebooks. 2020 collection. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 1. Introduction
- 1.1. What is the purpose of this book, and for whom it is intended
- 1.2. Basic equipment : hardware, light sources, lenses, mirrors, windows, filters, cameras etc.
- 2. Geometrical optics
- 2.1. Prism spectrometer and glass dispersion
- 2.2. Critical angle of reflection and Abbe refractometer : measurement of refractive index of a fluid
- 2.3. Paraxial imaging by singlet lenses : thin lens imaging, Newton's law, depth of field, Scheimpflug construction
- 2.4. Compound and thick lenses : focal, principal and nodal planes, zoom lenses
- 2.5. Telescopes : refractor telescopes, Newton reflector telescope and periscope
- 2.6. Microscopes : transmission, reflection, dark field
- 2.7. Autocollimator : measuring focal planes of a lens and angle of rotation
- 2.8. Aberrations and their reduction : some basic concepts, use of stops
- 2.9. Gravitational lens analogy : an example of an aspherical lens
- 3. Polarization and scattering
- 3.1. Polarized light
- 3.2. Fresnel coefficients for reflection at an interface
- 3.3. Ellipsometry : using polarized light to measure properties of thin films
- 3.4. Rayleigh scattering
- 3.5. Coherent back-scattering
- 4. Physical optics I : diffraction and imaging
- 4.1. Fraunhofer (far-field) diffraction and Fourier transforms
- 4.2. Fresnel (near-field) diffraction
- 4.3. Diffraction gratings : transmission and reflection gratings and spectroscopy
- 4.4. Imaging with coherent illumination
- 4.5. Optical transfer function : incoherent resolution measurement
- 4.6. Diffraction by three-dimensional objects : analogues of crystallography
- 4.7. High resolution, wide field Fourier ptychographic microscopy
- 5. Physical optics II : interference
- 5.1. Newton's rings and flat plate interference
- 5.2. Michelson and Twyman-Green interferometer : absolute measurement of wavelength, Fourier spectroscopy and optical testing
- 5.3. Sagnac common-path interferometer
- 5.4. Fabry-Perot étalon
- 5.5. Holography with a digital camera
- 5.6. Interferometric holography
- 5.7. Computer-generated holography
- 6. Physical optics III : topics in wave propagation
- 6.1. Optical tunnelling : frustrated total internal reflection
- 6.2. The acousto-optic effect
- 6.3. Berry's geometric phase
- 6.4. Spatial coherence function : measurement and interpretation
- 6.5. Aperture synthesis
- 6.6. Gouy phase shift through a focus
- 6.7. Optical vortices
- 7. Optics of materials
- 7.1. Interferometric measurement of the refractive index of a gas
- 7.2. Anisotropic materials : interference figures of uniaxial and biaxial crystals
- 7.3. Chiral materials : optical activity
- 7.4. Non-linear optics : second harmonic generation
- 7.5. Surface plasmon resonance
- 7.6. Induced optical anisotropy : photo-elastic, electro-optic and magneto-optic effects
- 8. Atmospheric optics
- 8.1. Rainbow : geometrical and physical optical effects, high-order rainbows
- 8.2. Mirages and gradient-index optics
- 8.3. Green flash
- 8.4. Sky polarization, the sunstone and Viking navigation
- 9. Relativistic optics
- 9.1. Fizeau's experiment : velocity of light in moving water
- 9.2. Optical fibre gyroscope : measurement of rate of rotation
- 10. Basic experiments in quantum optics
- 10.1. Coincidence experiments
- 10.2. Measuring the Planck constant
- 10.3. Laser modes
- 10.4. The spectrum of black-body radiation.