Optics
Study of light and its interactions with matter
Optics#
Optics explores the behavior and properties of light, including its interactions with matter and the instruments used to detect it.
Topics#
- Geometric Optics
- Ray Optics
- Reflection
- Refraction
- Lenses
- Mirrors
- Optical Instruments
- Microscopes
- Telescopes
- Cameras
- Wave Optics
- Interference
- Diffraction
- Polarization
- Huygens' Principle
- Young's Double Slit
- Thin Film Interference
- Optical Coatings
- Fiber Optics
- Lasers
- Quantum Optics
- Nonlinear Optics
- Holography
- Optical Materials
- Optical Design
- Optical Testing
- Optical Metrology
- Optical Communications
- Optical Computing
- Optical Storage
Resources#
Books#
- Optics by Eugene Hecht
- Principles of Optics by Max Born and Emil Wolf
- Introduction to Modern Optics by Grant R. Fowles
- Fundamentals of Photonics by Bahaa E. A. Saleh and Malvin Carl Teich
- Optical Physics by Stephen G. Lipson, Henry Lipson, and David S. Tannhauser