Physical Optics

Physical Optics
ISBN-10
0198517955
ISBN-13
9780198517955
Series
Physical Optics
Category
Science
Pages
506
Language
English
Published
1997
Authors
Sergeĭ Aleksandrovich Akhmanov, S. Ju Nikitin, S. Yu Nikitin

Description

Providing a picture of modern physical optics as an expert would see it, this clear exposition of the most useful ideas of optics will be accessible to undergraduate students. This textbook covers both classical and modern optics and is based on a course offered by Moscow State University inrecent years - the main objective of which was to provide a comprehensive presentation of the fundamentals of the subject. Containing a much higher proportion of topical material than conventional textbooks the contents include electromagnetic theory of light, optical radiation physics and thephysics of interaction of radiation with matter. Among the contemporary topics discussed most comprehensively are lasers, nonlinear optics, and new methods of optical spectroscopy.

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