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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Wave optics
  name:
    name part: Asimellis, George
    name part: 1966-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: wau
    date issued: 2020
    copyright date: 2020
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: ix, 379 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 28 cm.
  abstract: This third volume of the series Lectures in Optics provides a comprehensive presentation of the Wave Optics effects. The arguments regarding the concept of light, wave or particle, were actually part of the greatest revolution in physics, which, in the early 20th century, bore the modern quantum and atomic optics and, as a byproduct, the laser. Several aspects of optics are strongly dependent on its wave nature. These include polarization (the vectorial nature of light), absorption and dispersion (hailing from the complex nature of the refractive index, as well as the quantum nature of the photon), interference and diffraction. The latter two are perhaps the greatest manifestations of the wave nature of light. It is often said that interference and diffraction are the two faces of the same coin. They are both manifestations of the wave nature, and provide an excellent demonstration of the power and simplicity of the Fourier Optics concepts. Finally, the book introduces the concepts of laser and its application in a historical as well as in a didactic approach.
  table of contents: Light and electromagnetism -- Polarization -- Dispersion and absorption -- Interference -- Diffraction -- Principles of lasers.
  note: George Asimellis.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    topic: Wave theory of light
  subject:
    topic: Light
  subject:
    topic: Polarization (Light)
  subject:
    topic: Dispersion
  subject:
    topic: Interference (Light)
  classification: QC403 .A85 2020
  classification: 535/.13
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Lectures in optics ; volume 3
  identifier: 9781510622630
  identifier: 1510622632
  identifier: 9781510622647
  identifier: 1510622640
  identifier: 2019001143
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 190110
    record change date: 20210125091536.0
    record identifier: in00004350939