This lecture note covers following topics: Nature of Light,
Geometrical Optics, Optical Instrumentation, Dispersion, Prisms, and
Aberrations, Wave Equations, EM Waves, Polarization, Fresnel Equations,
Production of Polarized Light, Superposition of Waves Interference of Light,
Coherence, Fraunhofer Diffraction, Fourier Optics, Characteristics of Laser
Beams, Optics of the Eye.
This book shows how the existing technology of material
characterization can contribute to science and applied technology. The
authors who contributed with this book sought to show the importance of
applying the existing techniques in the development of their works.
This lecture note explains following topics: Basics of optics, Laws
of Reflection and Refraction, Reflection from spherical mirrors, Velocity of
image, Refraction at Plane Surfaces, Prism Theory, Defects of images, Refraction
from curved surfaces.
This
book is divided in four sections. The book presents several physical effects and
properties of materials used in lasers and electro-optics in the first chapter
and, in the three remaining chapters, applications of lasers and electro-optics
in three different areas are presented.