Lakshminarayanan / Ghalila / Ammar Understanding Optics with Python

1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-1-4987-5506-1
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 375 Seiten

Reihe: Multidisciplinary and Applied Optics

This book introduces optics through the use of simulations, namely, Python. Students, researchers, and engineers will be able to use Python simulations to better understand the basic concepts of optics and professors will be able to provide immediate visualizations of the complex ideas. Readers will learn programming in Python. Throughout this book, a simulated laboratory will be provided where students can learn by "hands on" exploration. The text will cover all the standard topics of traditional optics.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Lakshminarayanan, Vasudevan

Ghalila, Hassen

Ammar, Ahmed

Varadharajan, L. Srinivasa

Fachgebiete

• Technische Wissenschaften Technik Allgemein Technische Optik, Lasertechnologie
• Technische Wissenschaften Sonstige Technologien | Angewandte Technik Lasertechnologie, Holographie
• Naturwissenschaften Physik Physik Allgemein Theoretische Physik, Mathematische Physik, Computerphysik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Propagation of light – wave function, spherical and cylindrical waves. Inverse square law. Law of refraction. Huygen’s principle. Fresnel reflection. Total internal reflection and critical angle. Chromatic dispersion. Prisms. Mirrors – plane and spherical mirrors. Power of spherical surfaces, lenses. Object/image relationships and ray tracing. Thin lens comibinations. Thick lenses and lens systems. Matrix formulation. Cylindrical lenses – interval of sturm. Combined sphere and cylindrical lenses. GRIN lenses. Aberrations – 3rd order. Superposition. Two slit and multiple slit interference. Simple interferometers – michaelson, mach zhender. Fraunhofer and Fresnel diffraction. Diffraction through apertures: square, rectangle, circular. diffraction: single, double, multiple slits. Resolution. Fresnel diffraction – cornu spiral. Polarization – linear, cricular, elliptical. Brewster’s angle. Malus’s law. Optical activity. Quarter and halfwave plates. Jones and Muller matrices. Fourier optics. Fiber optics and photonics. Wavefront aberrations

Über Autor(innen)

Vasudevan Lakshminarayanan is currently a professor of vision science, physics and electrical and computer engineering. He has held visiting and faculty appointments at the universities of California at Berkeley, at Irvine, University of Missouri and the University of Michigan (where is he currently a visiting scholar of physics). He has had numerous honors, including Fellow of OSA, SPIE, AAAS, APS, IoP, etc. and the recipient of various awards including most recently the Esther Hoffman Beller medal of OSA, and the Optics Educator award of SPIE. He was a KITP Scholar at the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics at UCSB, a current member of the optics advisory board of the International Center for Theoretical Physics at Trieste, Italy and a technical staff member of Vidyasmart, a start-up in Waterloo devoted to developing educational technology and applications. He was a finalist of the AAAS Science and technology policy fellowship program. He is a founding member of the UNESCO ALOP program. He also serves as a member of the international steering committee of the International Year of Light 2015. He has authored or edited about 13 books, a member of the editorial board or technical editor of a number of journals (e.g., Optics Letters, Journal of Modern Optics, American Journal of Bioengineering, OPN,etc.) and over 300 publications in topics ranging from optical physics and engineering, neuroscience, biomedical image processing, bioengineering, applied math and ophthalmology/ optometry and science policyHassen Ghalila is a Professor of Physics in the Laboratoire de Spectroscopie Atomique Moléculaire et Applications (LSAMA) in the Department of Physics - Faculty of Sciences of Tunis - Tunis El Manar University. Since 2005 he has been the leader of the Numerical and Simulations modeling team at LSMA. He received his Ph.D. from Orsay on numerical codes for plasma physics.