TY - BOOK AU - Pedrotti,Frank L. AU - Pedrotti, Leno M. AU - Pedrotti, Leno S. TI - Introduction to Optics SN - 9780131971332 U1 - 535 PY - 2007/// CY - New Jersey : PB - Pearson Prentice-Hall, KW - Optics N1 - Annexed Index; 1. Nature of light -- 2. Geometrical optics -- 3. Optical instrumentation -- 4. Wave equations -- 5. Superposition of waves -- 6. Properties of lasers -- 7. Interference of light -- 8. Optical Interferometry -- 9. Coherence -- 10. Fiber optics -- 11. Fraunhofer diffraction -- 12. The diffraction grating -- 13. Fresnel diffraction -- 14. Matrix treatment of polarization -- 15. Production of polarized light -- 16. Holography -- 17. Optical Detectors and displays -- 18. Matrix methods in paraxial optics -- 19. Optics of the eye -- 20. Aberration theory -- 21. Fourier optics -- 22. Theory of multilayer films -- 23. Fresnel equations -- 24. Nonlinear optics and the modulation of light -- 25. Optical properties of materials -- 26. Laser operation -- 27. Characteristics of laser beams -- 28. Selected modern application ER -