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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"Principles of Optics is a great, rigorous, ponderous, unwavering mathematical tract that deals with a welath of topics...a great book, the seventh edition is a fine one, and as I said, if you work in the field you probably should own it." Physics Today
"Principles of Optics is a great book, the seventh edition is a fine one, and if you work in the field you probably ought to own it." Physics Today
"Principles of Optics is a great book, the seventh edition is a fine one, and if you work in the field you probably ought to own it." Physics Today
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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 40 years. The new edition is the first ever thoroughly revised and updated edition of this standard text and contains much new material. This standard work has been on the market for nearly 40 years and reprinted 16 times. The new edition will continue to be invaluable to advanced undergraduates, graduate students and researchers working in most areas of optics.
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53 of 56 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Good professional reference book, but not for students.,
By GPK (The Netherlands) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Principles of Optics: Electromagnetic Theory of Propagation, Interference and Diffraction of Light (Hardcover)
Already for many years, this is a classic on optics. Almost any subject you can think of is covered in this book, in a fundamental way. That is its strength and its weakness: experienced scientists will find everything they need, but for students it is not a good book because it is far too detailed: they will get lost in all the mathematical details before they grasp the essence of the subject.
This problem also exists - to a lesser extent - for professionals who try to use the book to fill in a gap in their knowledge: they too will find themselves asking why they have to read so many (well thought-through) pages before the authors finally make their point. My advice: use other books to study from, and use this book when you are already experienced and need a high-quality reference work. A note for scienctists: please mention section numbers when referring to this book in your own publications.
29 of 31 people found the following review helpful:
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A Classic,
By Yvan Dutil (Québec) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Principles of Optics: Electromagnetic Theory of Propagation, Interference and Diffraction of Light (Hardcover)
This book is a classic with all problems associated. Half of the reference quoted have been written before the WWII. Very useful if you like to quote original papers. This book cover most topics of the classical optics but hardy cover modern topics.However, it is hard to read and use a weird notation. Certainly not useful for rapid referencing. Like the bible, use it only when you have serious problem to deal with.
24 of 27 people found the following review helpful:
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It has everything about classical wave optics!,
By Jinwon Sung (Orlando, FL USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Principles of Optics: Electromagnetic Theory of Propagation, Interference and Diffraction of Light (Hardcover)
This seventh edition of the famous classic standard book on optics is really neat! The notations, symbols became a little more modern than the previous editions. Also the shapes of the characters in the equations looks much more pretty so it helps reading, understanding. As most of you know, this has everything you need to study about, refer to classical wave optics. The only weak point of this book is the material covering geometrical optics. It's too abstract, mathematical and lacks modern treatment of optical designs, aberrations. But, regarding the wave optics, it's hard to find any flaws, downsides. Even though I am working on micro-photonic elements, I often need to refer to this book for some wave optics principles, knowledges. But this book alone does not cover the whole optics including optical design, photonics. If you want to have the best minimum combination of books covering the basics of the entire optics. I would recommend "Fundamentals of Photonics(Saleh)", "Modern Optical Engineering(Smith)" and this book.
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THE state of excitation which is established in space by the presence of electric charges is said to constitute an electromagnetic field. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
perturbation eikonal, primary aberration coefficients, spectroscopic wave number, vibrational ellipse, axial stigmatism, attenuation indices, geometrical focal plane, homocentric pencil, reflection echelon, boundary diffraction wave, linear electric dipole, diffraction focus, mutual spectral density, red cadmium line, primary spherical aberration, spectral degree, coherency matrix, mutual intensity, aplanatic points, primary astigmatism, adjacent bright fringes, axial object point, nonmagnetic substances, strictly monochromatic light, circle polynomials Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Cambridge University Press, Opt Soc Amer, Clarendon Press, North Holland Publishing Company, Academic Press, Lord Rayleigh, Physical Society, Interscience Publishers, Dover Publications, Phil Mag, Phil Mug, Phis Rev, Roy Soc, University of Groningen, Acad Sci, Proc Phis Soc, Oxford University Press, Journ de Phi, Mathematical Theory of Optics, Pogg Ann, Rep Progr Phis, University of California Press, Adam Hilger, Ann de Physique New!
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THE state of excitation which is established in space by the presence of electric charges is said to constitute an electromagnetic field. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
perturbation eikonal, primary aberration coefficients, spectroscopic wave number, vibrational ellipse, axial stigmatism, attenuation indices, geometrical focal plane, homocentric pencil, reflection echelon, boundary diffraction wave, linear electric dipole, diffraction focus, mutual spectral density, red cadmium line, primary spherical aberration, spectral degree, coherency matrix, mutual intensity, aplanatic points, primary astigmatism, adjacent bright fringes, axial object point, nonmagnetic substances, strictly monochromatic light, circle polynomials Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Cambridge University Press, Opt Soc Amer, Clarendon Press, North Holland Publishing Company, Academic Press, Lord Rayleigh, Physical Society, Interscience Publishers, Dover Publications, Phil Mag, Phil Mug, Phis Rev, Roy Soc, University of Groningen, Acad Sci, Proc Phis Soc, Oxford University Press, Journ de Phi, Mathematical Theory of Optics, Pogg Ann, Rep Progr Phis, University of California Press, Adam Hilger, Ann de Physique New!
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- Progress in Optics, Vol. 27 by Author Unknown on 8 pages
- Coherence and Quantum Optics: Proceedings of the Third Rochester Conference on Coherence and Quantum Optics held at the University of Rochester, June 21-23, 1972 by L. Mandel on 6 pages
- Optical Coherence and Quantum Optics by Leonard Mandel on 5 pages
- Modern Geometrical Optics by Max Herzberger on page 204, and page 233
- Electromagnetic Theory (Pure & Applied Physics) by Julius Adams Stratton on page 7, and page 660
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- Handbook of Optoelectronics (Two-Volume Set) by J. Dakin on 4 pages
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