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“A research journal serves that narrow

borderland which separates the known from the unknown”

-P.C.Mahalanobis


Optics /



722 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm. Global edition. Content notes : 1. A brief history --
2. Wave motion --
3. Electromagnetic theory, photons, and light --
4. The propagation of light --
5. Geometrical optics --
6. More on geometrical optics --
7. The duperposition of waves --
8. Polarization --
9. Interference --
10. Diffraction --
11. Fourier optics --
12. Basics of coherence Theory --
13. Modern optics: lasers and other topics --
Appendices.

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