Principles of Optics/Optical Coherence and Quantum Optics Special Offer Set

by Max Born, Leonard Mandel, Emil Wolf

The new edition of the classic Principles of Optics has now been revised and updated and contains much new material. Optical Coherence and Quantum Optics is a systematic treatment of a broad area of modern optical physics dealing with coherence and fluctuations of light. Now available as a set, Principles of Optics and Optical Coherence and Quantum Optics will together be invaluable to advanced undergraduates, graduate students and researchers working in optics.

2172 pages, Hardcover

About the author

Max Born (was a German-British physicist and mathematician who was instrumental in the development of quantum mechanics. He also made contributions to solid-state physics and optics and supervised the work of a number of notable physicists in the 1920s and 30s. Born won the 1954 Nobel Prize in Physics (shared with Walther Bothe).