OPTICS at Graduate Level

By Devanarayanan Sankaranarayanan

The great development in the field of Optics starting from Classical, geometrical, physical optics and modern optics due to modern inventions is hard to be presented in the framework of a textbook meant for graduate level. This book "OPTICS at Graduate Level" contains a succinct and cogent coverage of the stuff, in 516 pages, required for a student and teacher to cover Optics for graduates as a textbook for a Semester with 4 credits. Designed rather to adopt the whole or parts of the book it can be the prescribed syllabus of any course containing optics & spectroscopy. It is comprised as 15 chapters, Ch 1: Preliminary Optics - Nature of Light; Ch 2: Polarized Light; Ch 3: Vector Optics - algebra of Polarizers using Stokes, Jones vector and matrix; Ch 4: Ray Optics - Reflection & Transmission, TM waves, TE waves, Fresnel formulas, Fiber optics; Ch 5: Wave Optics - Coherence & Interference, Two-beam interferometry, localized and non-localized fringes, Newton's rings, Michelson, Fizeau's, Multi-layer thin films; Ch 6: Classical Optics - Diffraction & Grating; Ch 7: Laser Optics, resonators, Optical pumping, types of lasers, optical tweezers; Ch 8 - Multiple Beam Interferometry, Fabry-Perot, Rayleigh criterion; Ch 9 Prism Optics - Deviation & Dispersion, Cauchy's, Hartmann, Film processing, Emission spectra analysis - Normal Zeeman effect, Absorption Raman spectra - Determination of and ; Ch 10 Refection & Refraction at Curved Surfaces, paraxial optics, Six cases of Constructions in lenses, various microscopes, telescopes, eye pieces, human eye and instruments; Ch 11 Fourier Optics - Diffraction & Holography, Fresnel-Kirchhoff formula, Fraunhoffer and Fresnel diffraction, spatial filtering, holographic interferometry, applications in medicine; Ch 12 Crystal Optics, anisotropy, wave vector, and phase velocity surfaces, optical activity, non-linear optics, photo-elasticity ; Ch 13 Quantum Optics - Theory of Spectra of Atoms & Molecules; Ch 14 Optics of Solid State, Sellemeir's dispersion formula - Cauchy's formula - Optics of Metals - Hagen-Rubens formula; & Ch 15 Optics applied in Ophthalmology. The many bibliographic references listed enable students as well as faculty, for their academic references.Review Questions are given at the close of every chapter with answers, within braces, to most of them. The author's experience in teaching on the subject a few years and in research on crystal phase transitions with measurements using Fizeau's Interferometry, design & fabrication of instruments, working with Polarization microscope and Spectroscopy has certainly an impact in the quality of the contents of the book. As an author of six books, this work has its own uniqueness, for instance providing student friendly features. To expose to the readers the most important basic way of using our physics knowledge to develop tools and treatments that help humans live longer and be healthier, Chap 15 is added as a review on Medical Physics in diagnostic radiology, or medical imaging, nuclear medicine and radiation oncology, especially Ophthalmology. A strong promise for holography to emerge as a powerful tool for medical applications has to be understood by the students.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1790683785
• ISBN13: 9781790683789
• Release Date: January 2019
• Publisher: Independently published
• Length: 534 Pages
• Weight: 3.31 lbs.
• Dimensions: 11.0" x 1.3" x 8.5"