Rays Waves and Photons presents the foundational concepts of optical science. Written by subject, each topic is presented in a standalone chapter with a brief historical foundation, current developments, and future predictions. With non-technical language, this book provides accessible content with terms, concepts and definitions, a glossary, and appendices to enhance the reader's experience. More than 40 subjects are discussed, including optical design, lenses, cameras, microscopes, telescopes, lasers, fibers, missiles, autonomous cars and remote sensing. This book will provide a useful resource for students, teachers, professionals, and general audiences interested in the complexity of optical phenomena and devices.
Key Features
- Provides foundations of the knowledge of light and its many applications
- Uses simplified language for non-specialists
- Terms and definitions are provided throughout, including a glossary
Author(s): William L. Wolfe
Series: IOP Series in Emerging Technologies in Optics and Photonics
Publisher: IOP Publishing
Year: 2020
Language: English
Pages: 350
City: Bristol
PRELIMS.pdf
Prologue
Permissions and acknowledgements
Author biography
William L Wolfe
CH001.pdf
Chapter 1 Introduction—pleased to meet you
1.1 In the beginning
1.2 Optics today
1.3 Organization
1.4 Information sources
1.5 Limitations
1.6 Idiosyncrasies
1.7 Terminology and symbols
CH002.pdf
Chapter 2 Acousto-optics—did you hear what I saw?
CH003.pdf
Chapter 3 Binoculars—from both sides now
CH004.pdf
Chapter 4 Cameras—got the picture?
CH005.pdf
Chapter 5 Optical communication—did you get the word?
5.1 Photophone patent
5.2 Fiber communication
5.3 Free space communication
CH006.pdf
Chapter 6 Diffraction—diffraction didactations
CH007.pdf
Chapter 7 Displays—do you see what I see?
CH008.pdf
Chapter 8 Electro-optics and magneto-optics
CH009.pdf
Chapter 9 Eye tracking—do you see where I see?
CH010.pdf
Chapter 10 Fiber optics—an inside job
CH011.pdf
Chapter 11 Glasses—some are half full
CH012.pdf
Chapter 12 Holography—is it real or is it a …?
CH013.pdf
Chapter 13 Infrared—do you see what I can’t?
CH014.pdf
Chapter 14 Optics institutions—are you institutionalized?
CH015.pdf
Chapter 15 Interference and interferometers—some constructive thoughts
CH016.pdf
Chapter 16 Lasers–a coherent discussion
CH017.pdf
Chapter 17 Lenses—focusing in
CH018.pdf
Chapter 18 Light—the light of our lives
18.1 The early days
18.2 Corpuscles
18.3 Waves
18.4 Electromagnetic radiation
18.5 Quantum mechanics
18.6 The photon
CH019.pdf
Chapter 19 Optical lithography—I walk the line
CH020.pdf
Chapter 20 Medical optics—aaaah
20.1 Diagnostics
20.2 Treatment
20.3 Telemedicine
CH021.pdf
Chapter 21 Microscopes—a little of this and a little of that
CH022.pdf
Chapter 22 Military optics—homing in
22.1 Reconnaissance
22.2 Weaponry
22.3 Others
CH023.pdf
Chapter 23 Mirrors—through one darkly
CH024.pdf
Chapter 24 Nonlinear optics—outside the lines
CH025.pdf
Chapter 25 Optical design—the rays on d’etre
CH026.pdf
Chapter 26 Optics olio—mishmash
26.1 The greenhouse effect
CH027.pdf
Chapter 27 Optical societies—high society
27.1 OSA
27.2 SPIE
27.3 ICO
27.4 EOS
27.5 IRIS
CH028.pdf
Chapter 28 Polarization—some circular reasoning
CH029.pdf
Chapter 29 Prisms—an acute discussion, not obtuse
29.1 Dispersive prisms
29.2 Non-dispersive prisms
29.3 Porro prism
29.4 Polarizing prisms
CH030.pdf
Chapter 30 Radiometry and photometry—a precise and accurate treatment
30.1 In the beginning
30.2 Standards
30.3 Luminous efficacy (the eyeball curve)
30.4 Radiometry
30.5 Radiation transfer
30.6 Radiometric material properties
30.7 Radiometers
30.8 Nomenclature
CH031.pdf
Chapter 31 Reflection—noitcelfeR
31.1 Nomenclature
CH032.pdf
Chapter 32 Refraction—as the light is bent
CH033.pdf
Chapter 33 Relativity—not uncle Louie and aunt Sadie
33.1 The role of optics
33.2 A Gedanken experiment
33.3 Scientific background
33.4 General relativity
CH034.pdf
Chapter 34 Remote sensing—admiration from afar
CH035.pdf
Chapter 35 Scattering—scattered thoughts
35.1 Particulate scattering
35.2 Surface scatter
CH036.pdf
Chapter 36 Scopes—scoping it out
CH037.pdf
Chapter 37 Solar energy—the Sun is my doing
CH038.pdf
Chapter 38 Sources—and there was light
CH039.pdf
Chapter 39 Spectacles—better to see you with
CH040.pdf
Chapter 40 Spectra of spectroscopy—ROYGBIV
CH041.pdf
Chapter 41 Speed of light—faster than a speeding bullet
41.1 Speed in vacuo
41.2 The designation of c for the speed of light9
41.3 Propagation of light
41.4 Speed in relatively dense media
41.5 Speed in moving media
41.6 Speed in moving frames of reference
41.7 Wavelength, temperature, and pressure variations of the speed of light in air
41.8 Constancy of the speed of light
41.9 Slow light24
41.10 Phase and group velocity
CH042.pdf
Chapter 42 The stereoscope and stereoscopy—from both sides now
CH043.pdf
Chapter 43 Telescopes—truly astronomical
CH044.pdf
Chapter 44 Ultraviolet—aglow in the dark
CH045.pdf
Chapter 45 One man’s glimpse of the future
CH046.pdf
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Acousto-optics
Cameras and photography
Communications
Diffraction
Displays
Eye tracking
Fiber optics
Infrared
Interference
Lenses
Light
Lithography
Mirrors
Nonlinear optics
Optical design
Optics olio
Polarization
Prisms
Radiometry and photometry
Refraction
Relativity
Remote sensing
Scattering
Scopes
Sources
Spectacles
Spectroscopy
Speed of light
Stereoscopes
Telescopes
Ultraviolet
Miscellaneous
APP1.pdf
Chapter
A.1 The sinc function
A.2 The jinc function
A.3 The sinc and jinc functions
A.4 The Arago spot
APP2.pdf
Chapter
B.1 Refraction from a rare to a dense material
B.2 Refraction from a dense to a rare material
B.3 Total internal reflection
B.4 The polarization angle, Brewster’s angle
B.5 Complex index of refraction
B.6 Refractive index measured by minimum deviation
B.7 Refractive index measured by normal incidence
B.8 The Kramers–Kronig relations and the measurement of refractive index
B.9 Dispersion
B.10 Waves and wave packets
APP3.pdf
Chapter
C.1 Basic interference
C.2 Coherence and partial coherence
C.3 Multiple beam interference
C.4 Young’s double slit experiment
APP4.pdf
Chapter
D.1 Maxwell’s equations
D.2 The wave equation
D.3 Solution of the wave equation
D.4 The volume of modes, mode density
D.5 Variations on the theme
D.6 Examples
APP5.pdf
Chapter
APP6.pdf
Chapter
APP7.pdf
Chapter
G.1 Numbers
G.2 Temperature
G.3 Radiometry and photometry nomenclature
G.4 The wavelengths and frequencies of light
G.5 Lengths
G.6 Fundamental constants
G.7 Metric prefixes
APP8.pdf
Chapter
APP9.pdf
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