The Light Fantastic: A Modern Introduction to Classical and Quantum Optics - Softcover

Kenyon, Ian

9780198566465: The Light Fantastic: A Modern Introduction to Classical and Quantum Optics

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0198566468 ISBN 13: 9780198566465

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 2008

This book presents a thorough and self-contained introduction to modern optics, covering in full the three components--ray optics, wave optics, and quantum optics. The text covers all that would be needed over a comprehensive course in optics at the advanced undergraduate or beginning graduate level. Digital cameras, LCD screens, aircraft laser gyroscopes, and the optical fibre-based internet illustrate the penetration of optics in twenty-first century life: these and many more modern applications are presented from first principles.

The self-contained material allows the selection of specific themes grouped in the following way: Paraxial ray optics with matrix methods and aberrations - Interference, coherence and interferometers - Diffraction, spectrometers and Gaussian beams - Fourier optics, holography and information processing - Maxwell's theory; scattering, absorption and dispersion in bulk materials; interface behaviour -
Quantum phenomena, wave-particle duality, uncertainty principle; Schroedinger analysis of spectra, photon properties - Laser principles, He:Ne to MQW lasers, applications - Detectors: photodiodes, photomultipliers, image intensifiers; response, noise and linearlty; CCDs -
Fibre optics, from monomode fibre analysis to dense wavelength division multiplexing; fibre sensors - Photon-atom interactions, optical pumping, cooling and clocks - Second quantization, photon correlations, SPDC, entanglement, tests of quantum mechanics.

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About the Author:

Dr Ian Kenyon
Senior Honorary Research Fellow
School of Physics and AstroPhysics
University of Birmingham

Review:

`Provides a nice mix of elementary physical optics with practical and exciting applications.'
Stephen Barnett, University of Strathclyde

`An easily accessible text, written with a light touch.
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Ulf Leonhardt, University of St Andrews

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