Optics

e-books in Optics category

Holographic Materials and Optical Systems
by Izabela Naydenova, et al. - InTech , 2017
Holographic Materials and Optical Systems covers recent research achievements in the areas of volume holographic optical elements and systems, development of functionalized holographic recording materials, and applications in holographic imaging.
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Lectures on Geometrical Optics for Engineering and Medical Entrance Exam
by Anuj Kumar Dubey - viXra , 2016
These lectures contain the topics such as: Basics of optics, reflection and refraction, spherical mirrors, velocity of image in the plane and spherical mirror, refraction at plane surfaces, prism theory, refraction from curved surfaces, cut lenses...
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Unified Physics: Optics
by R.F. Davidson, R.W. Tinnell - Delmar Publishers , 1972
The book is intended to introduce both basic geometric optics and the laser. The materials are presented in an action-oriented format combining many of the features normally found in a textbook with those usually associated with a laboratory manual.
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Plasmonic Metamaterials
by Kan Yao, Yongmin Liu - arXiv , 2013
Metamaterials, artificially structured composite materials with subwavelength unit cells, exhibit exotic properties not easily obtainable in nature. This review presents the fundamentals, recent advances and future perspectives in the emerging field.
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Photonic Design: From Fundamental Solar Cell Physics to Computational Inverse Design
by Owen D. Miller - arXiv , 2012
This work unites fundamental physics and a novel computational inverse design approach towards energy-efficient photonic and optoelectronic devices. The book is devoted to solar cells and inverse design as a new computational paradigm in photonics.
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Geometrical Optics
by A.S. Percival - Longmans, Green, and Co. , 1913
This book is primarily intended for medical students as a textbook on the subject of Geometrical Optics for their preliminary scientific examinations, though it practically contains all the Optics required by an ophthalmic surgeon.
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Color and Its Applications
by Matthew Luckiesh - D. Van Nostrand company , 1921
The book presents a condensed treatment of the science of color. An attempt has been made to cover as many phases of the subject as possible within the confines of a small volume. The science of color is treated from the viewpoint of applications.
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General and Practical Optics
by Lionel Laurence - School of Optics , 1920
Although primarily intended as a textbook, it is written also as a reference book for those engaged in spectacle work, for other students of Optics, and as an introduction to the study of more advanced works. Published in 1920.
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Physics of Light and Optics
by Justin Peatross, Michael Ware - Brigham Young University , 2011
A book designed for an advanced undergraduate optics course for physics majors. Topics include the propagation of light in matter, reflection and transmission at boundaries, polarization effects, dispersion, coherence, ray optics and imaging, etc.
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Classical and Modern Optics
by Daniel A. Steck - University of Oregon , 2010
Notes for an optics course at the advanced undergraduate level. Topics covered: Ray Optics; Electromagnetic Theory; Interference; Gaussian Beams; Fabry-Perot Cavities; Polarization; Fresnel Relations; Thin Films; Fourier Optics; etc.
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Optics
by P. Ewart - University of Oxford , 2007
Contents: Geometrical Optics; Physical Optics; Fraunhofer Diffraction; Fourier methods in Optics; Optical instruments and fringe localization; The diffraction grating spectrograph; The Michelson Interferometer; The Fabry-Perot interferometer; etc.
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Geometric Optics
by J. B. Tatum , 2006
Reflection and refraction at a plane surface, the rainbow, differential form of Snell's law, lens and mirror calculations, designing an achromatic doublet, introduction to optical instruments, the camera, the telescope, the microscope, etc.
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