"Version: 20200801"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.Introduction : pleased to meet you -- Acousto-optics : did you hear what I saw? -- Binoculars : from both sides now -- Cameras : got the picture? -- Optical communication : did you get the word? -- Diffraction : diffraction didactations -- Displays : do you see what I see? -- Electro-optics and magneto-optics -- Eye track…
"Version: 20210205"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Review of electromagnetic radiation -- 1.1. Historical introduction -- 1.2. Maxwell's equations in free space -- 1.3. The free-space wave equation -- 1.4. Phase and group velocity -- 1.5. Energy flux -- 1.6. Resonator electric field -- 1.7. Problems2. Polarization of light -- 2.1. Historical introduction -- 2.2. Polari…
"Version: 20200901"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Introduction -- 1.1. How does light meet with matter? -- 1.2. Collectivity that matters -- 1.3. At the boundary from quantum to classical worlds2. Light-induced dipole-dipole interactions -- 2.1. Reservoir interaction volume -- 2.2. Resonant dipole-dipole interactions in free space -- 2.3. Two-dimensional dipole-dipole…
"Version: 20231101"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Introduction -- 2. Ultrashort intenselasers -- 2.1. Short pulse generation and amplification methods -- 2.2. Characterization and manipulation of ultrashort lasers -- 2.3. Laser focus control techniques3. Instrumentations for laser-plasma interaction with ultra-intense lasers -- 3.1. Vacuum systems -- 3.2. Optical syst…
"Version: 20221201"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Foundations of optical interferometry -- 1.1. Light waves -- 1.2. Types of interferometers -- 1.3. Interference of light waves -- 1.4. Multiple wave interference -- 1.5. White-light interferometry -- 1.6. Holographic interferometry2. Coherence -- 2.1. Introduction : the background -- 2.2. Basic principles of coherence …
"Version: 20200401"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.part I. A historical, mathematical and optical introduction. 1. A brief history of stigmatic lens design -- 1.1. The rise of geometrical optics -- 1.2. Optics of the ancient Greeks and Arab world -- 1.3. Snell, Descartes, Huygens, Newton and Fermat -- 1.4. 19th and 20th century -- 1.5. The computer era and the closure of …
"Version: 20251201"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Optical physics for laser materials processing -- 1.1. Electromagnetic theory of light propagation -- 1.2. Paraxial approximation -- 1.3. The eikonal equation--material polarization approach -- 1.4. The eikonal equation--Fermat's principle approach -- 1.5. Propagation of electromagnetic waves through matter. Lorentz os…
"Version: 20221201"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Introduction / Bruno Lovaglio Can?cado Trindade and Davies William de Lima Monteiro -- 2. The human eye and refractive correction / Bruno Lovaglio Can?cado Trindade, Glauber Coutinho Eliazar and Davies William de Lima Monteiro -- 3. Optical parameters and charts / Bruno Lovaglio Can?cado Trindade, Davies William de Lim…
"Version: 20140801"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.Preface -- Author biography -- Theory of optical propagation and diffraction -- The Helmholtz equations -- The integral theorem of Helmholtz and Kirchhoff -- The Rayleigh-Sommerfeld formulation of diffractionFourier analysis and linear systems -- Fourier transforms and Fourier analysis -- Fourier analysis in two dimension…