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Includes many clear, easy-to-read, diagrams.
Contains detailed descriptions of demonstrational experiments and code for programs which allow computer simulations.
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
Demonstrational Optics presents a new didactical approach to the study of optics. Emphasizing the importance of elaborate new experimental demonstrations, pictorial illustrations, computer simulations and models of optical phenomena in order to ensure a deeper understanding of wave and geometric optics. It includes problems focused on the pragmatic needs of students, secondary school teachers, university professors and optical engineers. Part 2, Coherent and Statistical Optics, contains chapters on interference, diffraction, Fourier optics, light quanta, thermal radiation (Shot noise and Gaussian light), Correlation of light fields and Correlation of light intensities. A substantial part of this volume is devoted to thermal radiation and its properties, especially with partial coherence. A detailed treatment of the photo-effect with respect to statistical properties leads to the basics of statistical optics. To illustrate the phenomena covered by this volume, a large number of demonstration experiments are described and discussed. In the chapters devoted to statistical phenomena computer simulations are described, the code of all relevant programs being included.
Authors and Affiliations
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St. Petersburg State University, St. Petersburg, Russia
Oleg Marchenko
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Paris Observatory, Paris, France
Sergei Kazantsev
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Technical University of Graz, Graz, Austria
Laurentius Windholz
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Demonstrational Optics
Book Subtitle: Part 2, Coherent and Statistical Optics
Authors: Oleg Marchenko, Sergei Kazantsev, Laurentius Windholz
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-68327-0
Publisher: Springer New York, NY
eBook Packages: Physics and Astronomy, Physics and Astronomy (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag US 2007
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-387-32463-0Published: 06 December 2006
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4419-4081-0Published: 29 October 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-0-387-68327-0Published: 02 June 2009
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 355
Topics: Classical Electrodynamics, Optics, Lasers, Photonics, Optical Devices, History and Philosophical Foundations of Physics, Statistics, general