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Basic optics : principles and concepts /

Basic Optics: Principles and Concepts addresses in great details the basic principles of the science of optics, and their related concepts. The book provides a lucid and coherent presentation of an extensive range of concepts from the field of optics, which is of central relevance to several broad a...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Lahiri, Avijit (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam, Netherlands : Elsevier, [2016]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Front Cover; Basic Optics: Principles and Concepts; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1: Electromagnetic Theory and Optics; 1.1 Introduction; 1.2 Maxwell's Equations in Material Media and in Free Space; 1.2.1 Electromagnetic Field Variables; 1.2.1.1 Digression: The naming of the field variables; 1.2.1.2 Digression: The naming of the field variables and their space-time variations in optics; 1.2.2 Maxwell's Equations; 1.2.3 Material Media and the Constitutive Relations; 1.2.3.1 Linear media; Digression: tensors and tensor fields; 1.2.3.2 Nonlinear media.
  • 1.2.4 Integral Form of Maxwell's Equations1.2.5 Boundary Conditions Across a Surface; 1.2.6 The Electromagnetic Field in Free Space; 1.2.7 Microscopic and Macroscopic Variables for a Material Medium; 1.3 Digression: Vector Differential Operators; 1.3.1 Curvilinear Coordinates; 1.3.2 The Differential Operators; 1.4 Electromagnetic Potentials; 1.4.1 Gauge Transformations; 1.4.2 The Lorentz Gauge and the Inhomogeneous Wave Equation; 1.4.3 The Homogeneous Wave Equation in a Source-Free Region; 1.5 The Hertz Vector Representation; 1.6 The Principle of Superposition; 1.7 The Complex Representation.
  • 1.8 Energy Density and Energy Flux1.8.1 Energy Density; 1.8.2 Poynting's Theorem: The Poynting Vector; 1.8.3 Intensity at a Point; 1.9 Optical Fields: An Overview; 1.10 The Uniqueness Theorem; 1.11 Simple Solutions to Maxwell's Equations; 1.11.1 Overview; 1.11.2 Harmonic Time Dependence; 1.11.2.1 Fictitious magnetic charges and currents; 1.11.2.2 The Helmholtz equations; 1.12 The Monochromatic Plane Wave; 1.12.1 Monochromatic Plane Waves in Free Space; 1.12.2 Plane Waves in an Isotropic Dielectric; 1.12.3 Energy Density and Intensity for a Monochromatic Plane Wave.
  • 1.13 States of Polarization of a Plane Wave1.13.1 Linear, Circular, and Elliptic Polarization; 1.13.2 States of Polarization: Summary; 1.13.3 Intensity of a Polarized Plane Wave; 1.13.4 Polarized and Unpolarized Waves; 1.14 Reflection and Refraction at a Planar Interface; 1.14.1 The Fields and the Boundary Conditions; 1.14.2 The Laws of Reflection and Refraction; 1.14.3 The Fresnel Formulae; 1.14.3.1 Setting up the problem; 1.14.3.2 Perpendicular polarization; Phase change in reflection; 1.14.3.3 Parallel polarization: Brewster's angle; Brewster's angle.
  • Parallel polarization: Phase change on reflectionThe case of normal incidence; 1.15 Total Internal Reflection; 1.16 Plane Waves: Significance in Electromagnetic Theory and Optics; 1.17 Electromagnetic Waves in Dispersive Media; 1.17.1 Susceptibility and Refractive Index in an Isotropic Dielectric; 1.17.1.1 Introduction: The context; 1.17.1.2 Dispersion: The basic equations; 1.17.2 Dispersion: Further Considerations; 1.17.2.1 The local field: Clausius-Mossotti relation; 1.17.2.2 Dispersion: The general formula; 1.17.2.3 The distribution of resonant frequencies.