The Light Fantastic: A Modern Introduction to Classical and Quantum Optics
- ISBN-10
- 019856645X
- ISBN-13
- 9780198566458
- Series
- The Light Fantastic
- Category
- Optics
- Pages
- 630
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2008
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press, USA
- Author
- I. R. Kenyon
Description
This thorough and self-contained introduction to modern optics covers, in full, the three components: ray optics, wave optics and quantum optics. Examples of modern applications in the current century are used extensively.
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