Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Preface to corrected reprint of the seventh edition
- Preface to the first edition
- Preface to the second edition
- Preface to the third edition
- Preface to the fourth edition
- Preface to the fifth edition
- Preface to the sixth edition
- Preface to the seventh edition
- Contents
- Historical introduction
- I Basic properties of the electromagnetic field
- II Electromagnetic potentials and polarization
- III Foundations of geometrical optics
- IV Geometrical theory of optical imaging
- V Geometrical theory of aberrations
- VI Image-forming instruments
- VII Elements of the theory of interference and interferometers
- VIII Elements of the theory of diffraction
- IX The diffraction theory of aberrations
- X Interference and diffraction with partially coherent light
- XI Rigorous diffraction theory
- XII Diffraction of light by ultrasonic waves
- XIII Scattering from inhomogeneous media
- XIV Optics of metals
- XV Optics of crystals
- Appendices
- Author index
- Subject index
Preface to corrected reprint of the seventh edition
- Frontmatter
- Preface to corrected reprint of the seventh edition
- Preface to the first edition
- Preface to the second edition
- Preface to the third edition
- Preface to the fourth edition
- Preface to the fifth edition
- Preface to the sixth edition
- Preface to the seventh edition
- Contents
- Historical introduction
- I Basic properties of the electromagnetic field
- II Electromagnetic potentials and polarization
- III Foundations of geometrical optics
- IV Geometrical theory of optical imaging
- V Geometrical theory of aberrations
- VI Image-forming instruments
- VII Elements of the theory of interference and interferometers
- VIII Elements of the theory of diffraction
- IX The diffraction theory of aberrations
- X Interference and diffraction with partially coherent light
- XI Rigorous diffraction theory
- XII Diffraction of light by ultrasonic waves
- XIII Scattering from inhomogeneous media
- XIV Optics of metals
- XV Optics of crystals
- Appendices
- Author index
- Subject index
Summary
As mentioned in the Preface to the seventh edition of this work, a change to a new publisher has made it possible to reset the whole text. Not surprisingly such a large amount of typesetting introduced some typographical errors. Those found by now have been corrected, as has been other inaccuracies which the reviewers and readers of the book brought to my attention. A small number of additional references have also been included. For the sake of completeness the Prefaces to the third, fourth and fifth editions have also been added.
I am particularly indebted to Dr E. Hecht who in a thorough review of the seventh edition noted several errors and inaccuracies that have now been corrected. I am also obliged to Dr S. H. Wiersma and Mr Damon Diehl who read much of the text very carefully and supplied me with long lists of misprints and other errors. I must also thank my friends and colleagues Professor Taco Visser, Dr Daniel F. V. James, Dr Peter Milonni, Professor Richard M. Sillitto, Mrs Winifred Sillitto and Dr Andrei Shchegrov for drawing my attention to a number of errors. Finally I wish to express my indebtedness to my colleague and former student Dr Greg Gbur for much help with the preparation of the corrected version.
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- Principles of OpticsElectromagnetic Theory of Propagation, Interference and Diffraction of Light, pp. vPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1999