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Principles of optics : electromagnetic theory of propagation, interference and diffraction of light
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- Creator
- Max Born and Emil Wolf ; with contributions by A.B. Bhatia ... [and others]
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- Language
- English
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- Seventh expanded edition
- Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1999
- Physical Details
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- xxxiii, 952 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
- ISBNs
- 0521642221, 9780521642224, 0521639212, 9780521639217
- OCLC
- ocm40200160
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- Basic properties of the electromagnetic field -- Electromagnetic potentials and polarization -- Foundations of geometrical optics -- Geometrical theory of optical imaging -- Geometrical theory of aberrations -- Image-forming instruments -- Elements of the theory of interference and interferometers -- Elements of the theory of diffraction -- The diffraction theory of aberrations -- Interference and diffraction with partially coherent light -- Rigorous diffraction theory -- Diffraction of light by ultrasonic waves -- Scattering from inhomogeneous media -- Optics of metals -- Optics of crystals -- Appendix 1: The calculus of variations -- Appendix 2: Light optics, electron optics and wave mechanics -- Appendix 3: Asymptotic approximation to integrals -- Appendix 4: The Dirac delta function -- Appendix 5: A mathematical lemma used in rigorous derivation of the Lorentz-Lorentz formula -- Appendix 6: Propagation of discontinuities in an electromagnetic field -- Appendix 7: The circle polynomials of Zernike -- Appendix 8: Proof of an inequality for the spectral degree of coherence -- Appendix 9: Proof of a reciprocity inequality -- Appendix 10: Evaluation of two integrals -- Appendix 11: Energy conservation in scalar wavefields -- Appendix 12: Proof of Jones' lemma