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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HjGT{o VEpIAC4 Publisher: Dover Publications
h6)hZ'zV Number Of Pages: 336
O5_[T43 Publication Date: 1989-06-01
_]j=[|q 9 ISBN-10 / ASIN: 0486659577
[mw#a9 ISBN-13 / EAN: 9780486659572
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W;~^3Hz6 U,RIr8 G 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.
66:|) 8}xU]N#EV Summary: Best in its class
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)lB-D;3[_ @a%,0Wn his is an easy 5 star. For those who gave it less, please think again:
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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).
Qyt6+xL 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.
dam.D.o" Gg5vf]VFo 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…
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p9H{ Summary: More of an engineering than an academic viewpoint on optics
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Y)BKRS~ t,k9:p 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.
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(ter+rTv 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!
ot_jG) qaw5< The table of contents are not included in the product description, so I add that here:
LwY_6[Ef Chapter 1 The Propagation of Light
o }Tv^>L 1.1 Elementary
Optical Phenomena and the Nature of Light
.?AtW:<*I 1.2 Electrical Consants and the Speed of Light
=xG9a_^v 1.3 Plane Harmonic Waves. Phase Velocity
`+"QhQ4w 1.4 Alternative Ways of Representing Harmonic Waves
IEC:zmkn 1.5 Group Velocity
(c(?s`; 1.6 The Doppler Effect
xU@Z<d,k Chapter 2 The Vectorial Nature of Light
JN|<R%hy 2.1 General Remarks
27u$VHwb 2.2 Energy Flow. The Poynting Vector
lD/+LyTa 2.3 Linear Polarization
2"BlV*\lS 2.4 Circular and Elliptic Polarization
<9@VY 2.5 Matrix Representation of Polarization. The Jones Calculus
y)s/\l& 2.6 Reflection and Refraction at a Plane Boundary
Wz=ZhE9g 2.7 Amplitudes of Reflected and Refracted Waves. Fresnel’s Equations
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