Autorentext

N. E. "Gene" Bickers is Professor Emeritus at the University of Southern California, USA. He earned his doctorate in Physics from Cornell University in 1986. He was a faculty member in the USC Department of Physics and Astronomy from 1988 until his retirement in 2023. His research specialty is theoretical condensed matter physics, in particular, phase transitions and electron transport properties in narrow-band metals. His work on high-temperature cuprate superconductivity includes the first correct prediction of the symmetry of the superconducting wave function in 1987. Bickers served as Vice Provost for Undergraduate Programs at USC from 2005 to 2016. He was a member of the inaugural cohort of Faculty Fellows in the USC Center for Excellence In Teaching (CET) during 1997-2000 and has received numerous awards for his teaching in both undergraduate and graduate courses.

Klappentext

Classical Optics and Electromagnetic Waves offers an exploration of optics, the physics subfield examining light's properties and applications.

Inhalt

Chapter 1 The macroscopic Maxwell equations I. Dielectric materials

Chapter 2 The macroscopic Maxwell equations II. Bound current and magnetic materials

Chapter 3 Review of light in vacuum

Chapter 4 Time-dependent fields in materials and complex permittivity

Chapter 5 Macroscopic wave equation in matter

Chapter 6 Reflection and transmission of a plane wave at a dielectric interface

Chapter 7 Polarization

Chapter 8 Eikonal approximation and geometric optics

Chapter 9 Applications of the transport equation. Light intensity

Chapter 10 Caustic surfaces. Calculational examples

Chapter 11 Paraxial approximation in geometric optics. Spherical lenses and mirrors

Chapter 12 Spherical electromagnetic waves. Scalar-wave theory. Huygens-Fresnel integral

Chapter 13 Fresnel-Kirchhoff integral. Far-field and near-field diffraction regimes

Chapter 14 Far-field and near-field diffraction by a general aperture

Chapter 15 Energy conservation in diffraction. Diffraction examples I

Chapter 16 Diffraction examples II: Circular aperture, lens and mirror

Chapter 17 Diffraction examples III: Multiple slits and gratings. Resolving power

Chapter 18 Fourier optics approach to diffraction and optical processing

Chapter 19 Interference by division of amplitude. Fringe visibility. Interference geometries

Chapter 20 Interference of multiply reflected waves. Fabry-Perot interferometer. LIGO

Chapter 21 Coherence. Power spectrum and correlation functions

Chapter 22 Propagation of light in anisotropic materials

Chapter 23 Laser optics I. Paraxial wave equation and paraxial spherical waves

Chapter 24 Laser optics II. Gaussian beam focusing and optical cavities

Chapter 25 Exact solutions I. Conducting knife edge

Chapter 26 Exact solutions II. Infinite slit