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Principles of Optics:

Electromagnetic Theory of Propagation, Interference and Diffraction of Light
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Cambridge University Press, Oct 13, 1999 - Science - 952 pages
Principles of Optics is one of the classic science books of the twentieth century, and probably the most influential book in optics published in the past forty years. This edition has been thoroughly revised and updated, with new material covering the CAT scan, interference with broad-band light and the so-called Rayleigh-Sommerfeld diffraction theory. This edition also details scattering from inhomogeneous media and presents an account of the principles of diffraction tomography to which Emil Wolf has made a basic contribution. Several new appendices are also included. This new edition will be invaluable to advanced undergraduates, graduate students and researchers working in most areas of optics.
  

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I read this book in the late sixties, when some of my fellow engineers built and tested an acoustic lens for a developmental company. Born & Wolf were well-acquainted with antenna aperture theory, and ... Read full review

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It is the standard. One of the few books with septuple integrals. Read full review

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Contents

Basic properties of the electromagnetic field
1
Electromagnetic potentials and polarization
75
HI Foundations of geometrical optics
116
Geometrical theory of optical imaging
142
Geometrical theory of aberrations
228
Imageforming instruments
261
Elements of the theory of interference and interferometers
286
interference microscopes
341
Optics of metals
735
Optics of crystals
790
indices of a crystalline medium
833
Appendices
853
Light optics electron optics and wave mechanics
873
Asymptotic approximations to integrals
883
The Dirac delta function
892
A mathematical lemma used in the rigorous derivation of the LorentzLorenz formula
898

wavelengths
377
Elements of the theory of diffraction
412
The diffraction theory of aberrations
517
Interference and diffraction with partially coherent light
554
Rigorous diffraction theory
633
Diffraction of light by ultrasonic waves
674
Scattering from inhomogeneous media
695
The circle polynomials of Zernike 9 2 1
905
1 for the spectral degree of coherence 10 5
911
Energy conservation in scalar wavefields 13 3
918
Author index
925
Subject index
936
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About the author (1999)

Albert Einstein (1879-1955) is one of the most influential figures of the modern era. Working in Germany, Switzerland and US, he radically transformed our understanding of the universe and took an outspoken stance on the significant political and social issues of his time. He was the father of the theory of relativity and a major contributor to quantum theory yet always found time for the political causes close to his heart.
Max Born (1882-1970) won the Nobel prize for Physics in 1954 for his fundamental research in quantum mechanics. He worked at the Universities of Breslau and G"ttingen before Nazism forced his family to flee to the UK, where he held chairs first at Cambridge and later at Edinburgh University. He collaborated with Pauli, Heisenberg, Fermi, Dirac, Raman, and Oppenheimer among others, while also writing and speaking frequently on the social responsibility of scientists.

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