Preface
1 History of Optics
2 What is Light?
Part 1 Geometrical Optics
3 Fermat's Principle and Its Applications
4 Refraction and Reflection by Spherical Surfaces
5 The Matrix Method in Paraxial Optics
6 Aberrations
Part 2 Vibrations and Waves
7 Simple Harmonic Motion,Forced Vibrations and Origin of Refractive Index
8 Fourier Series and Applications
9 The Dirac Delta Function and Fourier Transforms
10 Group Velocity and Pulse Dispersion
11 Wave Propagation and the Wave Equation
12 Huygens'Principle and Ist Applications
Part 3 Interference
13 Superposition of Waves
14 Two Beam Interferenc by Division of Wavefront
15 Interference by Division of Amplitude
16 Multiple Beam Interferometry
17 Coherence
Part 4 Diffraction
18 Fraunhofer Diffraction:1
19 Fraunhofer Diffraction:2 and Fourier Optics
20 Fresnel Diffraction
21 Holography
Part 5 Electromagnetic Character of Light
Part 6 Photons
Part 7 Lasers & Fiber Optics
Appendix
Name Index
Subject Index