Introduction to Modern
Optics By Grant R. Fowles，介绍现代
光学的经典书籍 （djvu格式）， Amazon评价4星半。
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Xca Y'k# TF|GGY i Publisher: Dover Publications
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G=!Y ~q g Publication Date: 1989-06-01
W$N_GR'4 ISBN-10 / ASIN: 0486659577
Q <^'v>~n ISBN-13 / EAN: 9780486659572
y ']>J+b0 Binding: Paperback
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%!LAu A complete basic undergraduate-level course in modern optics for students in physics, technology and engineering. The first half deals with classical physical optics; the second, the quantum nature of light. Many applications of the laser to optics are integrated throughout the text. Problems and answers. 170 illustrations.
;f[Ki$7 }@4m@_gR? Summary: Best in its class
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?;+=bKw0 t3 *2Z u his is an easy 5 star. For those who gave it less, please think again:
i5|A\ W v" 1) Title says: introduction. So don’t imagine it covers every equation there is. Get Wolf’s book if you like equations that much.
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key subjects. To do that, you have to skip a lot of intro/background or equations, that’s why there are references and citations (and better bricks/bug killers).
m}]"TFzoVM 3) This is an intro book but also serves well as a refresher. This is intermediate level to advanced level for non-physicists, as it assumes good understanding of calculus.
%H~q3|z z >vzXM To be fair, the book is not without flaws. One obvious is the name implied recent advances (although different people use modern optics differently), while the book was last revised in 1975. Nonetheless, the key component of modern optics are mostly there, unless you are into cutting edge advances. It might be more appropriate to name it as “intro to physical optics”, then again the author added a section of ray optics at the end of the book…
l:8 gCi 6"[`"~9'V Summary: More of an engineering than an academic viewpoint on optics
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g {8>2OK$c X82 sw>Y If you’re studying optics in a college class using Hecht’s classic text, or if you are an engineer who needs an overview of the subject, this is a good practical and economical introduction to the subject. However, be aware that this book is short on two components - details of derivations of mathematical formulas and illustrations. That is not to say they do not exist, it is just to say that at several points during the book I could have been aided in my comprehension by either an illustration or derivation that simply wasn’t there.
-&M9Yg|Se /%$'N$@f There are end of chapter exercises included, and there are solutions to selected odd problems in the back of the book. However, there are no details as to how those solutions were arrived at. If you are an engineer, the only way to really be sure that you understand a subject is to solve problems. Thus I suggest Schaum’s Outline of Optics by Hecht for that task. Often the solutions to problems in that outline are the mathematical details that are missing in this book!
`9s5 *;Z q*@7A6:FV> The table of contents are not included in the product description, so I add that here:
9,82Uta Chapter 1 The Propagation of Light
g!V;*[ 1.1 Elementary
Optical Phenomena and the Nature of Light
Yj /S(4(h? 1.2 Electrical Consants and the Speed of Light
d'kQE_y2. 1.3 Plane Harmonic Waves. Phase Velocity
f 7y1V(t 1.4 Alternative Ways of Representing Harmonic Waves
WH vN6 1.5 Group Velocity
-}MWA>an8 1.6 The Doppler Effect
0DIaXdOdW+ Chapter 2 The Vectorial Nature of Light
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2.1 General Remarks
r=s ,Ath 2.2 Energy Flow. The Poynting Vector
4NQS'*%D 2.3 Linear Polarization
I Js*zzR 2.4 Circular and Elliptic Polarization
g/mVd;#o 2.5 Matrix Representation of Polarization. The Jones Calculus
J Q%e' 2.6 Reflection and Refraction at a Plane Boundary
WA8Qt\Q 2.7 Amplitudes of Reflected and Refracted Waves. Fresnel’s Equations
k^p|H: 2.8 The Brewster Angle
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`{N0+n 2.10 Phase Changes in Total Internal Reflection
C "< l} 2.11 Reflection Matrix
SBAq,F' Chapter 3 Coherence and Interference
rV"<1y:g 3.1 The Principle of Linear Superposition
d&(GIH E&d 3.2 Young’s Experiment
G! zV=p 3.3 The Michelson Interferometer
"T <Q#^m 3.4 Theory of Partial Coherence. Visibility of Fringes
nDkyo>t . 3.5 Coherence Time and Coherence Length
@mNf(& 3.6 Spectral Resolution of a Finite Wave Train. Coherence and Line Width
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<3LyNG. 3.8 Intensity Interferometry
f&js,NU" 3.9 Fourier Transform Spectroscopy
|U Z#2 Chapter 4 Multiple-Beam Interference
f /&Dy'OV7 4.1 Interference with Multiple Beams
}7IS:"t u 4.2 The Fabry-Perot Interferometer
R4_4 FEo 4.3 Resolution of Fabry-Perot Instruments
x5WFPY$w M 4.4 Theory of Multilayer Films
/$! / F@^ Chapter 5 Diffraction
Gz+Bk5#{ 5.1 General Description of Diffraction
^p|MkB?uM 5.2 Fundamental Theory
Ii?<L z 5.3 Fraunhofer and Fresnel Diffraction
uPsn~>(4 5.4 Fraunhofer Diffraction Patterns
{K09U^JU 5.5 Fresnel Diffraction Patterns
9<.FwV > 5.6 Applications of the Fourier Transform to Diffraction
LU ?X|{z 5.7 Reconstruction of the Wave Front by Diffraction. Holography
a ,#f%#J\ Chapter 6 Optics of Solids
c;&m}ImLe. 6.1 General Remarks
s!9.o_k 6.2 Macroscopic Fields and Maxwell’s Equations
!Q*.Dw()[ 6.3 The General Wave Equation
kmi[u8iXD_ 6.4 Propagation of Light in Isotropic Dielectrics. Dispersion
]ch cRc[! 6.5 Propagation of Light in Conducting Media
PQa {5" 6.6 Reflection and Refraction at the Boundary of an Absorbing Medium
e/6WhFN # 6.7 Propagation of Light in Crystals
Lf3Ri/@ p 6.8 Double Refraction at a Boundary
%q;3b fq@N 6.9 Optical Activity
0 oEw1!cY 6.10 Faraday Rotation in Solids
R^1sbmwk 6.11 Other Magneto-optic and Electro-optic Effects
fv5'Bl 6.12 Nonlinear Optics
m[LIM}Gu Chapter 7 Thermal Radiation and Light Quanta
2wlrei 7.1 Thermal Radiation
d8C?m*3 J 7.2 Kirchoff’s Law. Blackbody Radiation
YKJk)% ;+w 7.3 Modes of Electromagnetic Radiation in a Cavity
T@U_;v |rf 7.4 Classical Theory of Blackbody Radiation. The Rayleigh-Jeans Fo
2Y(P hw2% 7.5 Quantization of Cavity Radiation
e=o<yf9>Q 7.6 Photon Statistics. Planck’s Formula
E&Pv:h,pV& 7.7 The Photoelectric Effect and the Detection of Individual Photons
A@Z&ZBDg 7.8 Momentum of a Photon. Light Pressure
ua /A &XQx 7.9 Angular Momentum of a Photon
N0O8to}V 7.10 Wavelength of a Material Particle. de Broglie’s Hypothesis
-n?|,cO 7.11 Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Principle
`4'v)!? Chapter 8 Optical Spectra
_UT>,c;h 8.1 General Remarks
UAFl+d! 8.2 Elementary Theory of Atomic Spectra
4rO07)~l 8.3 Quantum Mechanics
SuB;Nb7r` 8.4 The Schrödinger Equation
V()s ! w 8.5 Quantum Mechanics of the Hydrogen Atom
S:v]3G 8.6 Radiative Transitions and Selection Rules
L p 5LRw 8.7 Fine Structure of Specturm Lines. Electron Spin
Pz,kSxe= 8.8 Multiplicity in the Spectra of Many-Electron Atoms. Spectroscopic Notation
IiHl"2+/ 8.9 Molecular Spectra
AY5%<CWj8 8.10 Atomic-Energy Levels in Solids
_VMW-trG Chapter 9 Amplification of Light. Lasers
2 oXsPrtZ 9.1 Introduction
gGxgU$`#c 9.2 Stimulated Emission and Thermal Radiation
M n`gd# 9.3 Amplification in a Medium
DxdiXf[j 9.4 Methods of Producing a Population Inversion
jX-v9eaA 9.5 Laser Oscillation
Gw:8-bxS 9.6 Optical-Resonaor Theory
()6(eRGJ 9.7 Gas Lasers
\U(qv(T 9.8 Optically Pumped Solid-State Lasers
v?,_SVgAi 9.9 Dye Lasers
y#F( xm+L 9.10 Semiconductor Diode Lasers
p[4KN(PyK 9.11 Q-Switching and Mode Locking
!X$e;V"HX 9.12 The Ring Laser
/csj(8^w Chapter 10 Ray Optics
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` Xc~'zG 10.3 Ray Equations
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7;:R\d 6iL 10.5 Periodic Lens Waveguides and Opical Resonators
^q-]."W]t~ Appendix I Relativistic Optics
o9(:m 1.1 The Michelson-Morley Experiment
0k>bsn/ j 1.2 Einstein’s Postulates of Special Relativity
{u{n b3/jl 1.3 Relativistic Effects in Optics
bX6eNk-L 1.4 The Experiments of Sagnac and of Michelson and Gale to Detect Rotation
wb~#=6Y References
L9M0vkgri Answers to Selected Odd-Numbered Problems
yDg`9q.ckm w6zB uW Summary: A terrific little book to start with - and continue to use
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S@* lI2 qF C0$:z& It’s a beautifully concise and remarkably clear introduction to the main principles of modern optics - the ones that you are going to need over and over again as you continue into the subject.
)D\!#<# h :*u .=^ This book gives you a great overview and set of basic foundations for every-day modern optics. I return to it often for little insights and reminders, even after 37 years in the business.
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.;&c<c| Vr@I9W;D# Great book to revise theory on Dual nature of light. Its like a nice handbook on optics. A full blown version would be very even nicer, with a math section to remind ‘old’ engineering like myself.
~,3+]ts='\ |re)]%A?Fu One word of caution, I think some graduate school background in Physics and Math is needed for engineers. I am an engineer (
T}d% X MXq I have a Phd, therefore it was easy for to me follow as I was reading), so I look at things slightly differently than Physicists.
R8O; 8c?D hg[ob+" Summary: Decent, economical book for optics
8;K'77h Rating: 4
|(G^3+5Uwm L lOUK 2tZ I bought this book while taking an optics course using Hecht’s Optics 4th ed. I found Fowler’s book to be fairly useful, especially since I got to see optics from two different perspectives. The one really good thing about this book is it’s price, and makes it a good reference book. The downside is that since it’s quite short, it doesn’t cover everything, moves fairly fast, and has no examples. For the price I paid, however, I am quite satisfied.
