Based on a course offered at Moscow State University, this text comprehensively presents the fundamentals of modern physical optics. The concepts of classical and quantum radiation theories, nonlinear physics, statistics, and Fourier transformations are shown to form the bedrock of modern optics and optical physics. Subjects include lasers, nonlinear optics, optical spectroscopy, and optical fields. The material is much more topical than that in conventional textbooks, and it provides a picture of physical optics as an expert would see it, but in a form accessible to a student.
1. Optical waves in vacuum 2. Polarization of light 3. Energy of light 4. Pressure of light 5. Classical radiation physics 6. Emission for an oscillator ensemble 7. Linear oscillator in optical field 8. Nonlinear oscillator in optical field 9. Thermal readiation 10. Laser 11. Interference of light 12. Coherence of light 13. Diffraction of light 14. Diffraction of paraxial beams 15. Diffraction in the far-field zone 16. Diffraction by periodic structures 17. Analysis, transformation, and synthesis of optical fields 18. Physics of interaction of light with matter 19. Optical waves in linear isotropic media 20. Optical phenomena at a boundary between media 21. Optics of anisotropic media 22. Nonlinear optics 23. Theoretical nonlinear optics Bibliography
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