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Optics

Title
Optics / Eugene Hecht, with contributions by Alfred Zajac.
Author
Hecht, Eugene.
Publication
Reading, Mass. : Addison-Wesley Pub. Co., ©1987.

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Additional Authors
Zając, Alfred.
Description
x, 676 pages : illustrations; 25 cm
Series Statement
World student series ed.
Uniform Title
Addison-Wesley world student series
Subjects
Note
  • Includes indexes.
Bibliography (note)
  • Bibliography: p. 661-664.
Contents
A brief history -- The mathematics of wave motion -- Electromagnetic theory, photons and light -- The propagation of light -- Geometrical optics: paraxial theory -- More on geometrical optics -- The superimposition of waves -- Polarization -- Interference -- Diffraction -- Fourier optics -- Basics of coherence theory -- Some aspects of the quantum nature of light -- Sundry topics from contemporary optics.
ISBN
  • 020111609X
  • 9780201116090
  • 0201116111
  • 9780201116113
LCCN
86014067
OCLC
  • ocm13761389
  • 13761389
  • SCSB-1165229
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library