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Optics and Lasers

Including Fibers and Optical Waveguides

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  • © 1986

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Authors:
  1. Matt Young

    1. Boulder, USA

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Part of the book series: Springer Series in Optical Sciences (SSOS, volume 5)

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XVII
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  2. Ray Optics

    • Matt Young
    Pages 1-18

  3. Optical Instruments

    • Matt Young
    Pages 19-38

  4. Light Sources and Detectors

    • Matt Young
    Pages 39-68

  5. Wave Optics

    • Matt Young
    Pages 69-103

  6. Interferometry and Related Areas

    • Matt Young
    Pages 104-115

  7. Holography and Fourier Optics

    • Matt Young
    Pages 116-144

  8. Lasers

    • Matt Young
    Pages 145-172

  9. Electromagnetic and Polarization Effects

    • Matt Young
    Pages 173-194

  10. Optical Waveguides

    • Matt Young
    Pages 195-213

  11. Optical-Fiber Measurements

    • Matt Young
    Pages 214-232

  12. Integrated Optics

    • Matt Young
    Pages 233-244

  13. Problems

    • Matt Young
    Pages 245-262

  14. Back Matter

    Pages 263-283
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About this book

In this newest edition of Optics and Lasers, I have added a substantial number of problems and moved most of the older ones to the end of the book. There are now about one hundred problems, which, I hope, will make the book more useful in the classroom. As before, some of the problems derive an espe­ cially important or useful result; these I have left integrated within the body of the book. In such cases, I state the result and, often, give it an equation number and a citation in the index. Teachers who adopt the book may obtain solutions to the problems by asking me for them on letterhead stationery. In addition, I have rewritten over a dozen paragraphs to improve their clarity or precision and, further , corrected minor errors of punctuation and taken care of other such small details. The field of optics has been changing greatly for almost two dozen years. Partly because of the applied or engineering nature of much of modern optics, there has been a need for a practical text that surveys the entire field. Such a book should not be a classical-optics text, but, rather , it should be strong on principles, applications and instrumentation, on lasers, holography and coherent light, and on optical-fiber waveguides. On the other hand, it should concern itself relatively little with such admittedly interesting phenomena as the formation of the rainbow or the precise determination of the speed of light.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Boulder, USA

    Matt Young

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Optics and Lasers

  • Book Subtitle: Including Fibers and Optical Waveguides

  • Authors: Matt Young

  • Series Title: Springer Series in Optical Sciences

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-37456-5

  • Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 1986

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-540-37456-5Published: 29 June 2013

  • Series ISSN: 0342-4111

  • Series E-ISSN: 1556-1534

  • Edition Number: 3

  • Number of Pages: XVI, 282

  • Number of Illustrations: 14 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Optics, Lasers, Photonics, Optical Devices, Quantum Optics

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