Optics, Global Edition, 5th edition

Published by Pearson (October 5, 2016) © 2017

  • Eugene Hecht Adelphi University

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Title overview

For courses in Optics

A Contemporary Approach to Optics with Practical Applications and New Focused Pedagogy

Hecht Optics balances theory and instrumentation and provides students with the necessary classical background through a lively and clear narrative.

Optics, 5th Edition is distinguished by three core imperatives: up-to-date content in line with the ever-evolving technological advances in the Optics field; a modern approach to discourse including studies on photons, phasors, and theory; and improvements and revisions to the previous edition’s pedagogy including over one hundred new worked examples.

Sustaining market leadership for over twenty years,Optics, 5th Edition continues to demonstrate range and balance in subject matter. The text is grounded in traditional methodology, while providing an early introduction to the powerful perspective of the Fourier theory, which is crucial to present-day analysis. Electron and neutron diffraction patterns are pictured alongside the customary photon images, and every piece of art has been scrutinised for accuracy and altered where appropriate to improve clarity.

Table of contents

  1. 1: A Brief History
  2. 2: Wave Motion
  3. 3: Electromagnetic Theory, Photons, and Light
  4. 4: The Propagation of Light
  5. 5: Geometrical Optics
  6. 6: More on Geometrical Optics
  7. 7: The Superposition of Waves
  8. 8: Polarization
  9. 9: Interference
  10. 10: Diffraction
  11. 11: Fourier Optics
  12. 12: Basics of Coherence Theory
  13. 13: Modern Optics: Lasers and Other Topics

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