Physical Optics

by Jeremy Tatum

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Physical optics, or wave optics, is the branch of optics that studies interference, diffraction, polarization, and other phenomena for which the ray approximation of geometric optics is not valid.

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Publisher
University of Victoria
Subjects
Physics, Optics
Licence
CC BY-NC 4.0, as LibreTexts states it. Non-commercial use only.
Who can read
Tweens profiles and older, judged from its title and subjects

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  1. Front Matter
  2. TitlePage
  3. InfoPage
  4. Table of Contents
  5. Licensing
  6. 1: Reflection and Refraction via Fermat's Principle and Huygens' Construction
  7. 1.1: Reflection and Refraction
  8. 2: Reflection and Transmission at Boundaries and the Fresnel Equations
  9. 2.1: Waves in a Stretched String
  10. 2.2: Light Incident Normally at a Boundary
  11. 2.3: Light Incident at the Brewster Angle
  12. 2.4: Electric and Magnetic Fields at a Boundary
  13. 2.5: Impedance
  14. 2.6: Incidence at an Arbitrary Angle.
  15. 3: The Cornu Spiral
  16. 3.1: Cornu's Spiral
  17. 4: Stokes Parameters for Describing Polarized Light
  18. 4.1: Polarized Light and the Stokes Parameters
  19. Back Matter
  20. Index
  21. Glossary
  22. Detailed Licensing