Electromagnetic optics /

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"Version: 20250201"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Introduction : the electromagnetic spectrum -- 2. Maxwell's equations -- 2.1. Gauss's law -- 2.2. 'No magnetic monopoles' -- 2.3. Faraday's law -- 2.4. Amp?ere-Maxwell law -- 2.5. Exercises3. Electromagnetic waves -- 3.1. The wave equation -- 3.2. Solutions of the wave equation -- 3.3. Plane waves -- 3.4. Waves in a half space -- 3.5. Paraxial waves and Gaussian beams -- 3.6. Exercises4. The polarization of light -- 4.1. Polarization basics -- 4.2. Special cases -- 4.3. Polarization-sensitive optical elements -- 4.4. Stokes parameters -- 4.5. The Poincar?e sphere -- 4.6. The Pancharatnam phase -- 4.7. Jones vectors -- 4.8. Nonuniform polarization -- 4.9. Exercises5. Maxwell's equations in matter -- 5.1. Electric dipoles and the D-field -- 5.2. Magnetic dipoles and the H-field -- 5.3. Closing the electromagnetic 'loop' -- 5.4. Permittivity, permeability, and the refractive index -- 5.5. Exercises6. Dispersion and the speed of light -- 6.1. Lorentz oscillator model of the atom -- 6.2. The Lorentz model for multiple oscillators -- 6.3. The Debye model -- 6.4. The speed of light in matter -- 6.5. Optical dispersion -- 6.6. Kramers-Kronig relations -- 6.7. Optical precursors -- 6.8. Exercises7. Conservation laws -- 7.1. Conservation of energy -- 7.2. Paradoxical behavior of the Poynting vector -- 7.3. Conservation of momentum -- 7.4. Momentum in matter and the Abraham-Minkowski controversy -- 7.5. Optical trapping -- 7.6. Conservation of angular momentum -- 7.7. Exercises8. Anisotropic media -- 8.1. Basic concepts of anisotropy -- 8.2. Plane waves in crystals -- 8.3. Energy flow in crystals -- 8.4. The Fresnel equation of wave normals -- 8.5. Ellipsoid of wave normals -- 8.6. Anisotropy and wave plates -- 8.7. Optical rotation -- 8.8. Anisotropic media with absorption -- 8.9. Conical refraction -- 8.10. Exercises9. Interface effects -- 9.1. Wiener's experiment -- 9.2. Boundary conditions -- 9.3. Reflection and refraction at an interface -- 9.4. Fresnel equations -- 9.5. The Goos-H?anchen effect -- 9.6. Refraction in complex media -- 9.7. Refraction in anisotropic media -- 9.8. Refraction in magnetic materials -- 9.9. Exercises10. Light propagation in stratified media -- 10.1. General considerations -- 10.2. Matrix methods for stratified media -- 10.3. Single interface -- 10.4. Single thin films -- 10.5. Frustrated total internal reflection -- 10.6. Dielectric mirrors and photonic bandgaps -- 10.7. Exercises11. Surface plasmons -- 11.1. Light propagation in a plasma -- 11.2. Plasma oscillations -- 11.3. What is a surface plasmon? -- 11.4. Surface plasmons in Maxwell's equations -- 11.5. Optical excitation of surface plasmons -- 11.6. Field enhancement of surface plasmons -- 11.7. Surface plasmons in thin films -- 11.8. Extraordinary optical transmission -- 11.9. Zenneck waves -- 11.10. Dyakonov waves -- 11.11. Exercises12. Metamaterials -- 12.1. Background -- 12.2. Negative refraction -- 12.3. The perfect lens -- 12.4. Epsilon-near-zero materials -- 12.5. High-index metamaterials -- 12.6. Spoof surface plasmons -- 12.7. Form birefringence -- 12.8. Exercises13. Guided waves -- 13.1. General observations -- 13.2. Hollow metal waveguides -- 13.3. Metallic coaxial waveguides -- 13.4. Circular dielectric waveguides -- 13.5. Mode structure of dielectric waveguides -- 13.6. Optical fibers -- 13.7. Exercises14. Sources and potentials -- 14.1. Sources and potentials -- 14.2. Dyadics -- 14.3. The general radiation problem -- 14.4. Multipole sources -- 14.5. Multipole potentials -- 14.6. Multipole fields and radiation -- 14.7. Higher-order multipoles and spherical waves -- 14.8. Gauge transformations -- 14.9. The Aharonov-Bohm experiments -- 14.10. Exercises15. Electromagnetic scattering -- 15.1. The electromagnetic Green's dyadics -- 15.2. Scattering theory -- 15.3. The Born series -- 15.4. The optical theorem -- 15.5. Rayleigh scattering -- 15.6. Rayleigh-Gans scattering -- 15.7. Mie scattering -- 15.8. Inverse problems -- 15.9. Anapoles -- 15.10. Exercises16. Computational methods for Maxwell's equations -- 16.1. The Foldy-Lax method -- 16.2. Integral equation solutions and the dyadic Green's function -- 16.3. The method of moments and the discrete dipole approximation -- 16.4. Finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) method -- 16.5. So long, and thanks for all the physics -- Appendix A. A brief vector calculus review.Full-text restricted to subscribers or individual document purchasers.This book is an in-depth textbook introducing and covering all topics related to the fact that light is a transverse electromagnetic wave. It begins with a discussion of the history of Maxwell's equations, from which the wave properties of light were first deduced, and then moves into the fundamentals of electromagnetic waves, such as the polarization of light, energy and momentum conservation, and basic solutions of Maxwell's equations. From there, it will move into more practical topics: light propagation in matter of various types, light propagation through interfaces, light propagation in waveguides (like fiber optic cables), and light scattering.Early graduate students in optics, as well as advanced undergraduates in optics.Also available in print.Mode of access: World Wide Web.System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader, EPUB reader, or Kindle reader.Gregory J Gbur is a professor of physics and optical science at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. He is the author of two textbooks, Mathematical Methods for Optical Physics and Engineering (2011), and Singular Optics (2016), as well as two popular science books, Falling Felines and Fundamental Physics (2019) and Invisibility (2023). He is also the author of blogs on horror fiction, physics, and nature. He has written for, or been interviewed, in outlets including The Atlantic, The Washington Post, Physics World, Science News, and more. He lives in Charlotte, NC.Title from PDF title page (viewed on February 1, 2025).

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