ptics by Dr. Ghatak is a classic text and is designed to provide a comprehensive account of important topics in this exciting field to meet the requirements of a course on OPTICS for undergraduate students of Science and Engineering. The text covers all important topics in the subject such as History of Optics, Fiber Optics, Lasers, Fraunhofer Diffraction, Dirac Delta Function, Fourier Transforms and Fourier Optics along with numerous solved and unsolved problems for practice.

Table of Contents

1 History of Optics

2 What is Light: A Brief History

Part 1 Geometrical Optics

3 Fermat's Principle and Its Applications

4 Refraction and Reflection by Spherical Surfaces

5 The Matrix Method in Paraxial Optics

6 Aberrations

Part 2 Vibrations and Waves

7 Simple Harmonic Motion, Forced Vibrations and Origin of Refractive Index

8 Fourier Series and Applications

9 The Dirac Delta Function and Fourier Transforms

10 Group Velocity and Pulse Dispersion

Chapter 11 Wave Propagation and the Wave Equation

12 Huygens' Principle and Its Applications

Part 3 Interference

13 Superposition of Waves

14 Two Beam Interference by Division of Wavefront

15 Interference by Division of Amplitude

16 Multiple Beam Interferometry

17 Coherence

Part 4 Diffraction

18 Fraunhofer Diffraction I

19 Fraunhofer Diffraction 11 and Fourier Optics

20 Fresnel Diffraction

21 Holography*

Part 5 Electromagnetic Character of Light

22 Polarization and Double Refraction

23 Electromagnetic Waves

24 Reflection and Refraction of Electromagnetic Waves

Part 6 Photons

25 Practicle Nature of Radiation: The Photon

26 Quantum Nature of the Photon and Entanglemtent

Part 7 Lasers & Fiber Optics

27 Lasers: An Introduction

28 Optical Fiber Basics Using Ray Optics

29 Fiber Optics II: Basic Wavefuide Theory and Concept of Modes

30 Fiber Optics Ill Single Mode Fibers

Part 8 Special Theory of Relativity

31 Special Theroy of Relativity 1: Time Dilation and Leng ht Contraction

32 Special Theory of Relativity 2: The Mass-Energy Relation

33 Special Theory of Relativity 3: Lorentz Transformations

Appendix A Gamma Functions and Integrals Involving Gaussian Functions

Appendix B Evalution of the Integral

Appendix C The Reflectivity of a Fiber Bragg Granting

Appendix D Diffraction of a Gaussian Beam

Appendix E Simple Derivation of the Differaction Integral

Appendix F A Heuristic Derivation of the Schordinger Equation and its Solutions

Appendix G TE and TM Modes in Planar Waveguide

Appendix H Solution for the Parabolic Index Waveguide

Appendix I Invariance of the Wave Equation Under Lorentz Transformation

About the Author

Ajoy Ghatak, Emeritus Professor of Physics, IIT Delhi.