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100	1		_aBrooker, Geoffrey. _938033
245	1	0	_aModern Classical Optics / _cGeoffrey Brooker.
260			_aOxford ; _aNew York : _bOxford University Press, _c2003.
300			_axiv, 397 p. : _bill. ; _c25 cm.
440		0	_aOxford master series in physics ; _pAtomic, optical, and laser physics _v8. _938034
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [383]-386) and index.
505			_a1. Electromagnetism and basic optics; 2. Fourier series and Fourier transforms; 3. Diffraction; 4. Diffraction gratings; 5. The Fabry-Perot; 6. Thin films; 7. Ray matrices and Gaussian beams; 8. Optical cavities; 9. Coherence: qualitative; 10. Coherence: correlation functions; 11. Optical practicalities: etendue, interferometry, fringe localization; 12. Image formation: diffraction theory; 13. Holography; 14. Optical fibres; 15. Polarization; 16. Two modern optical devices
520			_aThis work gives accounts of non-quantum optical phenomena and of instruments and technology based on them, at a level suitable for the last two years of an honours degree in physics and for graduates starting out. Topics covered include the conventional (diffraction, coherence, thin films, holography) and the less conventional (etendue, Gaussian beams, laser cavities, CD reader, confocal microscope) which belong in today's university courses, for example, to support laser physics. Even the conventional material has frequently been given a fresh presentation by giving a tidier-than-usual route through a calculation, or finding insightful connections with other parts of physics, or simply avoiding common errors. Problems offer opportunities for checking the reader's basic understanding, or for taking a careful route through reasoning, or for checking orders of magnitude. But most problems contain exploratory and critical material: investigating possible alternative approaches, asking searching questions about fundamentals, or solving apparent paradoxes.
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