Intended for a one semester course in optics for advanced undergraduates in science and engineering, this book uses Mathcad(R) scripts to provide a simulated laboratory where students can learn by exploration and discovery instead of passive absorption. The text covers all the standard topics of a traditional optics course and contains step-by-step derivations of all basic formulas in geometrical, wave and Fourier optics. The three-fold arrangement of text, applications, and files makes the book suitable for "self-learning". The basic text is supplemented by over 170 dynamic Mathcad files, each suggesting programs to solve a particular problem, and each linked to a topic in or application of optics.

Inhalt

1 Geometrical Optics / 2 Interference / 3 Diffraction / 4 Coherence / 5 Maxwell's Theory / 6 Maxwell II. Modes and Mode Propogation / 7 Blackbody Radiation, Atomic Emission and Laseras / 8 Optical Constants / 9 Fourier Transformation and FT-Spectroscopy / 10 Imaging Using Wave Theory / 11 Aberration