Basic Optics: Principles and Concepts addresses in great detail the
basic principles of the science of optics, and their related
concepts. The book provides a lucid and coherent presentation of an
extensive range of concepts from the field of optics, which is of
central relevance to several broad areas of science, including
physics, chemistry, and biology. With its extensive range of
discourse, the book's content arms scientists and students with
knowledge of the essential concepts of classical and modern optics.
It can be used as a reference book and also as a supplementary text
by students at college and university levels and will, at the same
time, be of considerable use to researchers and teachers. The book
is composed of nine chapters and includes a great deal of material
not covered in many of the more well-known textbooks on the
subject. The science of optics has undergone major changes in the
last fifty years because of developments in the areas of the optics
of metamaterials, Fourier optics, statistical optics, quantum
optics, and nonlinear optics, all of which find their place in this
book, with a clear presentation of their basic principles. Even the
more traditional areas of ray optics and wave optics are elaborated
within the framework of electromagnetic theory, at a level more
fundamental than what one finds in many of the currently available
textbooks. Thus, the eikonal approximation leading to ray optics,
the Lagrangian and Hamiltonian formulations of ray optics, the
quantum theoretic interpretation of interference, the vector and
dyadic diffraction theories, the geometrical theory of diffraction,
and similar other topics of basic relevance are presented in clear
terms. The presentation is lucid and elegant, capturing the
essential magic and charm of physics. All this taken together makes
the book a unique text, of major contemporary relevance, in the
field of optics. Avijit Lahiri is a well-known researcher, teacher,
and author, with publications in several areas of physics, and with
a broad range of current interests, including physics and the
philosophy of science.
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