Principles of Optics: Electromagnetic Theory of Propagation, Interference and Diffraction of Light

by Max Born, Emil Wolf, A.B. Bhatia (Contributor)

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.

Genres: Physics, Science, Nonfiction, Textbooks

985 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1980

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).

Reviews

[T Dodson]

The information was good, but it was scattered. Many times a concept would be here or there and sometimes as different variables in different chapters. The math was also not well explained and unnecessarily heady.

[Fred]

Very thorough treatment of optics from Maxwell's equation. My only wish is that they had practice problems. A necessary reference text for anyone working optics.

[psb]

It is the standard.

One of the few books with septuple integrals.

[Abhi]

knowledgwe

[Ysabelleleanne]

awesome!

[আহসান হাবীব]

i like it

[Veronika Lapina]

insides on diffraction as a theoretical concept, really might help one to deal with the way new materialist analysis employs diffractive reading