Optics (Volume 2)

Author: Pan Duwu
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Publish Date: 1997-02-01
Features: This book is one of the series "Introduction to General Physics," which is based on the lecture notes of the authors teaching optics at the Physics Department of Fudan University. It has been revised and developed. The book focuses on physical optics, clarifying the fundamental concepts of traditional classical optics while integrating the new developments in the field of optics with the content of classical optics. It introduces new concepts and ideas in optics and emphasizes the connections between optics and other areas of physics as well as high-tech fields. The book is divided into two volumes. The first volume covers: the nature of light, interference and diffraction, and geometric optics. The second volume covers: Fourier optics, absorption and emission of light, dispersion and scattering of light, propagation of light in crystals, nonlinear optics, and the statistical properties of light. This book can serve as a textbook or teaching reference for optics courses in physics majors at universities and colleges, and can also be used as a reference book for other related disciplines.