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Springer Introduction To Optics by Germain Chartier
This award-winning book has been translated from the original French by the author and thoroughly updated. It gives an introduction to modern optics at an advanced level, taking a unique approach inspired by Richard Feynman. Orders of Magnitude in Optics.- Electromagnetic Waves.- Geometrical Optics.- Polarized Light-Laws of Reflection.- Birefringence.- Interference.- Diffraction.- Index of Refraction.- Lasers.- Nonlinear Optics.- Raman-Brillouin-Rayleigh Diffusion.- Guided Optics.- Fourier Analysis and Fourier Transform.