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Classical Optics and Electromagnetic Waves offers an exploration of optics, the physics subfield examining light's properties and applications. Beginning with the mathematical foundations of electromagnetic waves in matter, the text develops geometric optics as the short-wavelength limit of Maxwell's Equations, establishing a framework for understanding wavefronts, light rays, and intensity variations. The work progresses methodically through image formation using mirrors and lenses in the paraxial approximation, employing transfer matrices for precise calculations. It thoroughly examines wave propagation through the Huygens-Fresnel and Fresnel-Kirchhoff integrals, comparing scalar and vector-field approaches while demonstrating their reduction to geometric optics. Diffraction receives comprehensive treatment across various scenarios--infinite slits, circular apertures, barriers, and gratings. The text introduces coherence concepts before exploring interference phenomena, developing the amplitude autocorrelation function and its connection to power spectra through the Wiener-Khinchin Theorem. Advanced topics include detailed analysis of Michelson and Fabry-Perot interferometers, thin-film stack calculations using the Abeles transfer matrix technique, Gaussian beam wave functions, optical cavity properties, and Fourier optics. End-of-chapter guided problems, numerous appendices and a glossary of symbols make this an invaluable textbook for intermediate to advanced students of classical optics. Designed as a natural follow-on to Purcell and Morin's Electricity and Magnetism in a three-semester honours sequence, this text bridges introductory electromagnetism and specialized optics coursework. It also serves as a more mathematically rigorous alternative to Hecht's Optics for upper-division students who have completed one or more intermediate-level electromagnetism courses.
Colour figures referred to in the book can be accessed at https: //www.routledge.com/Classical-Optics-and-Electromagnetic-Waves/Bickers/p/book/9781032766171.
Key Features:
- Designed as a follow-on resource for students who have previously taken courses in electromagnetism.
- Presents derivations and comments on approximations as they are introduced.
- Includes extensive end-of-chapter guided problems to aid learning.
商品描述(中文翻譯)
《經典光學與電磁波》提供了對光學的探索，光學是研究光的性質和應用的物理學子領域。該書從物質中電磁波的數學基礎開始，發展幾何光學作為麥克斯韐方程的短波長極限，建立了理解波前、光線和強度變化的框架。該書系統地通過使用鏡子和透鏡的成像形成，採用近軸近似，利用傳遞矩陣進行精確計算。它徹底檢視了通過惠更斯-弗涅爾和弗涅爾-基爾霍夫積分的波傳播，對比標量和向量場方法，同時展示它們如何簡化為幾何光學。繞射在各種情境下得到了全面的處理——無限狹縫、圓形孔、障礙物和光柵。該書在探討干涉現象之前介紹了相干性概念，發展了振幅自相關函數及其與功率譜的關聯，通過維納-金欽定理進行說明。進階主題包括對邁克爾森和法布里-佩羅干涉儀的詳細分析、使用阿貝爾傳遞矩陣技術的薄膜堆疊計算、高斯光束波函數、光學腔特性和傅立葉光學。每章結尾的引導問題、眾多附錄和符號詞彙表使這本書成為中級到高級經典光學學生的寶貴教材。該書設計為普賽爾和莫林的《電與磁》三學期榮譽課程的自然延續，橋接了入門電磁學和專業光學課程。它也為已完成一門或多門中級電磁學課程的高年級學生提供了一個數學上更嚴謹的替代選擇，作為海克特的《光學》的補充。
書中提到的彩色圖形可在 https://www.routledge.com/Classical-Optics-and-Electromagnetic-Waves/Bickers/p/book/9781032766171 獲取。
主要特點：
- 設計為已修習電磁學課程的學生的後續資源。
- 在引入時呈現推導和對近似的評論。
- 包含大量的章末引導問題以幫助學習。
作者簡介
N. E. "Gene" Bickers is Professor Emeritus at the University of Southern California, USA. He earned his doctorate in Physics from Cornell University in 1986. He was a faculty member in the USC Department of Physics and Astronomy from 1988 until his retirement in 2023. His research specialty is theoretical condensed matter physics, in particular, phase transitions and electron transport properties in narrow-band metals. His work on high-temperature cuprate superconductivity includes the first correct prediction of the symmetry of the superconducting wave function in 1987. Bickers served as Vice Provost for Undergraduate Programs at USC from 2005 to 2016. He was a member of the inaugural cohort of Faculty Fellows in the USC Center for Excellence In Teaching (CET) during 1997-2000 and has received numerous awards for his teaching in both undergraduate and graduate courses.
作者簡介(中文翻譯)
N. E. 'Gene' Bickers 是美國南加州大學的名譽教授。他於1986年在康奈爾大學獲得物理學博士學位。自1988年起，他在南加州大學物理與天文學系任教，直到2023年退休。他的研究專長是理論凝聚態物理，特別是窄帶金屬中的相變化和電子傳輸特性。他在高溫銅氧化物超導體方面的研究包括1987年首次正確預測超導波函數的對稱性。Bickers於2005年至2016年擔任南加州大學本科項目的副教務長。他是1997年至2000年間南加州大學教學卓越中心（CET）首屆教職員獎學金成員，並因其在本科和研究生課程中的教學獲得多項獎項。
