Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/c4f4fa/the_light_fantasti) has announced the addition of the "The Light Fantastic: A Modern Introduction to Classical and Quantum Optics" report to their offering.

A thorough and self-contained introduction to modern optics, covering in full the three components: ray optics, wave optics and quantum optics. Examples of modern applications in the current century are used extensively. The text covers all that would be needed over a comprehensive course in optics.

This book presents a thorough and self-contained introduction to modern optics, covering in full the three components ray optics, wave optics, and quantum optics. The text covers all that would be needed over a comprehensive course in optics at the advanced undergraduate or beginning graduate level. Digital cameras, LCD screens, aircraft laser gyroscopes, and the optical fibre-based internet illustrate the penetration of optics in twenty-first century life: these and many more modern applications are presented from first principles.

The self-contained material allows the selection of specific themes grouped in the following way: Paraxial ray optics with matrix methods and aberrations. Interference, coherence and interferometers. Diffraction, spectrometers and Gaussian beams. Fourier optics, holography and information processing. Maxwells theory; scattering, absorption and dispersion in bulk materials; interface behaviour.

Quantum phenomena, wave-particle duality, uncertainty principle; Schroedinger analysis of spectra, photon properties. Laser principles, He:Ne to MQW lasers, applications. Detectors: photodiodes, photomultipliers, image intensifiers; response, noise and linearlty; CCDs.

Fibre optics, from monomode fibre analysis to dense wavelength division multiplexing; fibre sensors. Photon-atom interactions, optical pumping, cooling and clocks. Second quantization, photon correlations, SPDC, entanglement, tests of quantum mechanics.

Key Topics Covered:
1 Introduction
1.1 Aims and contents
1.2 Electromagnetic waves
1.3 The velocity of light
1.4 A sketch of electromagnetic wave theory
1.4.1 More general waveforms
1.5 The electromagnetic spectrum
1.5.1 Visible spectra.
1.6 Absorption and dispersion
1.7 Radiation terminology
1.8 Black body radiation
1.9 Doppler shift
2 Reflection and refraction at plane surfaces
2.1 Light rays and Huygens' principle
2.1.1 The laws of reflection
2.1.2 Snell's law of refraction
2.1.3 Fermat's principle
2.1.4 Simple imaging
2.1.5 Deviation of light by a triangular prism
2.2 Total internal reflection
2.2.1 Constant deviation prism
2.2.2 Porro prisms
2.2.3 Corner cube reflector
2.2.4 Pulfrich refractometer
2.3 Optical fibre
3 Spherical mirrors and lenses
3.1 Introduction
3.1.1 Cartesian sign convention.
3.2 Spherical mirrors.
3.2.1 Ray tracing for mirrors.
3.3 Refraction at a spherical interface.
3.4 Thin lens equation
3.4.1 Ray tracing for lenses
3.5 Magnifiers
3.6 Matrix methods for paraxial optics
3.6.1 The equivalent thin lens.
3.7 Aberrations
3.7.1 Monochromatic aberrations
3.7.2 Spherical aberration
3.7.3 Coma
3.7.4 Astigmatism.
3.7.5 Field curvature
3.7.6 Distortion.
3.7.7 Chromatic aberration
3.8 Further reading.
4 Optical instruments
4.1 Introduction
4.2 The refracting telescope
4.2.1 Field of view
4.2.2 Etendue
4.3 Telescope objectives and eyepieces
4.4 The microscope
4.5 Cameras
4.5.1 Camera lens design
4.5.2 SLR camera features
4.5.3 Telecentric lenses
4.5.4 Telephoto lenses
4.5.5 Zoomlenses
4.6 Graded index lenses
4.7 Aspheric lenses
4.8 Fresnel lenses
5 Interference effects and interferometers
5.1 Introduction
5.2 The superposition principle
5.3 Young's two slit experiment
5.3.1 Fresnel's analysis
5.3.2 Interference by amplitude division.
5.4 Michelson's interferometer
5.4.1 The constancy of c
5.5 Coherence and wavepackets
5.5.1 The frequency content of wavepackets
5.5.2 Optical beats
5.5.3 Coherence area
5.6 Stokes' relations
5.7 Interferometry
5.7.1 The Twyman-Green interferometer
5.7.2 The Fizeau interferometer
5.7.3 The Mach-Zehnder interferometer
5.7.4 The Sagnac interferometer
5.8 Standing waves
5.9 The Fabry-Perot interferometer
6 Diffraction
6.1 Introduction
6.2 Huygens-Fresnel analysis
6.3 Single slit Fraunhofer diffraction.
6.4 Diffraction at a rectangular aperture
6.5 Diffraction from multiple identical slits
6.6 Babinet's principle
6.7 Fraunhofer diffraction at a circular hole
6.8 Diffraction gratings
6.9 Spectrometers and spectroscopes.
6.9.1 Grating structure
6.9.2 Etendue.
6.9.3 Czerny-Turner spectrometer
6.9.4 Littrow mounting
6.9.5 Echelle grating
6.9.6 Automated spectrometers.
6.10 Fresnel and Fraunhofer diffraction
6.11 Single slit Fresnel diffraction
6.11.1 Lunar occultation
6.12 Fresnel diffraction at screens with circular symmetry
6.12.1 Zone plates
6.13 Microprocessor lithography
6.14 Near field diffraction.
6.15 Gaussian beams.
6.15.1 Matrix methods
7 Fourier optics
7.1 Introduction
7.2 Fourier analysis
7.2.1 Diffraction and convolution
7.3 Coherence and correlations
7.3.1 Power spectra
7.3.2 Fourier transform spectrometry
7.4 Image formation and spatial transforms
7.5 Spatial filtering
7.5.1 Schlieren photography
7.5.2 Apodization
7.6 Acousto-optic Bragg gratings
7.6.1 Microwave spectrum analysis
7.7 Holography
7.7.1 Principles of holography
7.7.2 Hologram preparation
7.7.3 Motion and vibration analysis
7.7.4 Thick holograms
7.8 Optical information processing
7.8.1 The 4f architecture
7.8.2 Data storage and retrieval.
8 Astronomical telescopes
8.1 Introduction
8.2 Telescope design.
8.2.1 Auxiliary equipment
8.3 Schmidt camera.
8.4 Atmospheric turbulence
8.5 Adaptive optics.
8.6 Michelson's stellar interferometer
8.7 Modern interferometers
8.8 Aperture synthesis
8.9 Aperture arrays.
8.10 Image recovery
8.11 Comparisons with radioastronomy
8.12 Gravitational wave detectors
8.12.1 Laser-cavity locking
8.12.2 Noise sources
8.13 Gravitational imaging
9 Classical electromagnetic theory
9.1 Introduction
9.2 Maxwell's equations
9.3 The wave equation
9.3.1 Energy storage and energy flow
9.4 Electromagnetic radiation
9.5 Reflection and refraction
9.6 Fresnel's equations
9.7 Interference filters
9.7.1 Analysis of multiple layers
9.7.2 Beamsplitters
9.8 Modes of the electromagnetic field
9.8.1 Mode counting
9.9 Planar waveguides
9.9.1 The prism coupler
10 Polarization
10.1 Introduction
10.2 States of polarization.
10.3 Dichroism and Malus' law
10.4 Birefringence
10.4.1 Analysis of birefringence
10.4.2 The index ellipsoid
10.4.3 Energy flow and rays
10.4.4 Huygens' construction
10.5 Wave plates
10.5.1 Jones vectors and matrices
10.5.2 Prismseparators
10.5.3 Polarizing beam splitters and DVD readers
10.6 Optical activity.
10.7 Effects of applied electromagnetic fields
10.7.1 Pockels effect and modulators
10.7.2 Kerr effect
10.7.3 Faraday effect
10.8 Liquid crystals.
10.8.1 The twisted nematic LCD.
10.8.2 In-plane switching
10.8.3 Polymer dispersed liquid crystals (PDLC) 2
10.8.4 Ferroelectric liquid crystals (FELC).
10.9 Further reading.
11 Scattering, absorption and dispersion
11.1 Introduction
11.2 Rayleigh scattering
11.2.1 Coherent scattering
11.3 Mie scattering
11.4 Absorption
11.5 Dispersion and absorption
11.5.1 The atomic oscillator model
11.6 Absorption by, and reflection off metals
11.6.1 Plasmas in metals
11.6.2 Group and signal velocity
11.6.3 Surface plasma waves
11.7 Further reading.
12 The quantum nature of light and matter
12.1 Introduction
12.2 The black body spectrum
12.3 The photoelectric effect
12.4 The Compton effect.
12.5 de Broglie's hypothesis
12.6 The Bohr model of the atom
12.6.1 Beyond hydrogen
12.6.2 Weaknesses of the Bohr model
12.7 Wave-particle duality
12.8 The uncertainty principle
12.9 Which path information
12.10 Wavepackets and modes
12.10.1 Etendue.
12.11 Afterword
12.12 Further reading
13 Quantum mechanics and the atom
13.1 Introduction
13.2 An outline of quantum mechanics
13.3 Schroedinger's equation.
13.3.1 The square potential well.
13.4 Eigenstates
13.4.1 Orthogonality of eigenstates
13.5 Expectation values
13.5.1 Collapse of the wavefunction
13.5.2 Compatible, or simultaneous observables
13.6 The harmonic oscillator potential
13.7 The hydrogen atom.
13.8 The Stern-Gerlach experiment.
13.9 Electron spin
13.10 Multi-electron atoms
13.10.1 Resonance fluorescence
13.10.2 Atoms in constant fields.
13.11 Photon momentum and spin
13.12 Quantumstatistics.
13.13 Line widths and decay rates
13.14 Further reading
14 Lasers
14.1 Introduction
14.2 The Einstein coefficients
14.3 Prerequisites for lasing
14.4 The He:Ne laser
14.4.1 Three and four level lasers.
14.4.2 Gain
14.4.3 Cavitymodes
14.4.4 Hole burning.
14.4.5 Laser speckles
14.4.6 Optical beats.
14.5 The CO2 gas laser
14.6 Organic dye lasers
14.6.1 Saturation spectroscopy
14.6.2 Cavity ring-down spectroscopy
14.6.3 A heterodyne laser interferometer
14.7 Introducing semiconductors
14.7.1 DH lasers.
14.7.2 DFB lasers
14.7.3 Limiting line widths
14.8 Quantumwell lasers
14.8.1 Vertical cavity lasers
14.9 Nd:YAG and Nd:glass lasers
14.9.1 Q switching
14.10 Ti:sapphire lasers
14.11 Optical Kerr effect and mode locking
14.11.1 Mode locking
14.12 Frequency combs.
14.12.1 Optical frequency measurement
14.13 Extreme energies.
14.14 Second order non-linear effects.
14.14.1 Raman scattering
14.14.2 Brillouin scattering
14.14.3 Stimulated Raman and Brillouin scattering
14.15 Further reading.
15 Detectors
15.1 Introductio
15.2 Photoconductors.
15.3 Photodiodes
15.3.1 Dark current
15.4 Photodiode response.
15.4.1 Speed of response
15.4.2 Noise
15.4.3 Amplifiers.
15.4.4 Solar cells.
15.5 Avalanche photodiodes
15.6 Schottky photodiodes
15.7 Imaging arrays
15.7.1 Quantum efficiency and colour
15.7.2 CCD readout.
15.7.3 Noise and dynamic range.
15.7.4 CMOS arrays.
15.8 Photomultipliers.
15.8.1 Counting and timing
15.9 Microchannel plates and image intensifiers.
15.10 Further reading
16 Optical fibres
16.1 Introduction
16.2 Attenuation in optical fibre
16.3 Guided waves.
16.4 Fibre types and dispersion properties
16.5 Signalling
16.6 Sources and detectors
16.7 Connectors and routing devices
16.7.1 Directional couplers
16.7.2 Circulators
16.7.3 MMI devices.
16.8 Link noise and power budget
16.9 Long haul links.
16.9.1 Fibre amplifiers
16.9.2 Dispersion compensation.
16.10 Multiplexing
16.10.1 Thin film filters and Bragg gratings
16.10.2 Array waveguide gratings
16.10.3 MEMS
16.11 Solitons
16.11.1 Communication using solitons
16.12 Fibre optic sensors
16.12.1 Fibre Bragg sensors
16.12.2 The fibre optic gyroscope
16.13 Optical current transformer
16.14 Photonic crystal fibres
16.15 Further reading
17 Quantum interactions
17.1 Introduction
17.2 Transition rates.
17.2.1 Selection rules
17.2.2 Electric susceptibility
17.3 Rabi oscillations
17.4 Dressed states
17.5 Electromagnetically induced transparency
17.5.1 Slow light
17.6 Trapping and cooling ions
17.7 Shelving
17.8 Optical clocks
17.9 Further reading
18 The quantized electromagnetic field
18.1 Introduction
18.2 Second quantization.
18.2.1 Continuous variables
18.3 First order coherence.
18.4 Second order coherence
18.5 Laser light and thermal light
18.5.1 Coherent (laser-like) states of the electromagnetic field
18.5.2 Thermal light.
18.6 Observations of photon correlations
18.6.1 Stellar correlation interferometer
18.7 Entangled states.
18.7.1 Beamsplitters
18.7.2 Spontaneous parametric down conversion
18.8 The HOMinterferometer
18.9 Franson-Chiao interferometry
18.10 Complementarity
18.10.1 Delayed choice and quantum erasure
18.11 Further reading
A Physical constants and parameters
B Appendix: Cardinal points and planes of lens systems
C Appendix: Kirchhoff's analysis of wave propagation at apertures
D Appendix: The non-linear Schroedinger equation
E Appendix: State vectors
F Appendix: Representations
G Appendix: Fermi's golden rule
H Appendix: Solutions
Index

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