This new edition features numerous updates and additions. Especially 4 new chapters on Fiber Optics, Integrated Optics, Frequency Combs and Interferometry reflect the changes since the first edition. In addition, major complete updates for the chapters: Optical Materials and Their Properties, Optical Detectors, Nanooptics, and Optics far Beyond the Diffraction Limit. Features Contains over 1000 two-color illustrations. Includes over 120 comprehensive tables with properties of optical materials and light sources. Emphasizes physical concepts over extensive mathematical derivations. Chapters with summaries, detailed index Delivers a wealth of up-to-date references.

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Technology design magazine for the UK electronics industry covering the latest examples of technological innovation and news, advancements in the profession, and updates on communications and electronics.

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This book presents a thorough and self-contained introduction to modern optics, covering in full the three components–ray optics, wave optics, and quantum optics. The text covers all that would be needed over a comprehensive course in optics at the advanced undergraduate or beginning graduate level. Digital cameras, LCD screens, aircraft laser gyroscopes, and the optical fibre-based internet illustrate the penetration of optics in twenty-first century life: these and many more modern applications are presented from first principles.

The self-contained material allows the selection of specific themes grouped in the following way: Paraxial ray optics with matrix methods and aberrations – Interference, coherence and interferometers – Diffraction, spectrometers and Gaussian beams – Fourier optics, holography and information processing – Maxwell’s theory; scattering, absorption and dispersion in bulk materials; interface behaviour -
Quantum phenomena, wave-particle duality, uncertainty principle; Schroedinger analysis of spectra, photon properties – Laser principles, He:Ne to MQW lasers, applications – Detectors: photodiodes, photomultipliers, image intensifiers; response, noise and linearlty; CCDs -
Fibre optics, from monomode fibre analysis to dense wavelength division multiplexing; fibre sensors – Photon-atom interactions, optical pumping, cooling and clocks – Second quantization, photon correlations, SPDC, entanglement, tests of quantum mechanics.

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Packed with ideas, theory and projects for you to build – using class-leading drawings and illustrations, with full circuit diagrams, p.c.b. layouts, artwork and photos.

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John Seale (Rainman, Gorillas in the Mist, Witness) conducts an intensive and inspirational lighting workshop in the studios of the Australian Film, Radio and Television School. The dormitory set from “Dead Poets Society” was painstakingly reconstructed for this workshop. Even more important than the technical knowledge it contains is the insight this program gives into Seale’s working philosophy.

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