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Principles of Optics: Electromagnetic Theory of Propagation, Interference and Diffraction of Light [Hardcover]

Max Born (Author), Emil Wolf (Author), A. B. Bhatia (Contributor), P. C. Clemmow (Contributor), D. Gabor (Contributor), A. R. Stokes (Contributor), A. M. Taylor (Contributor), P. A. Wayman (Contributor), W. L. Wilcock (Contributor)
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"Principles of Optics is a great, rigorous, ponderous, unwavering mathematical tract that deals with a welath of topics...a great book, the seventh edition is a fine one, and as I said, if you work in the field you probably should own it." Physics Today

"Principles of Optics is a great book, the seventh edition is a fine one, and if you work in the field you probably ought to own it." Physics Today

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Principles of Optics is one of the classic science books of the twentieth century, and probably the most influential book in optics published in the past forty years. This edition has been thoroughly revised and updated, with new material covering the CAT scan, interference with broad-band light and the so-called Rayleigh-Sommerfeld diffraction theory. This edition also details scattering from inhomogeneous media and presents an account of the principles of diffraction tomography to which Emil Wolf has made a basic contribution. Several new appendices are also included. This new edition will be invaluable to advanced undergraduates, graduate students and researchers working in most areas of optics.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Good book, Mar 13 2003
This review is from: Principles of Optics: Electromagnetic Theory of Propagation, Interference and Diffraction of Light (Hardcover)
It is just a rare book on physical optics based on Maxwell equations. Rarely a book states the assumptions,the validity of the equations, the principles and how the equations arrived. Certainly, it is a great book for postgraduates and researchers in physical optics not so for undergraduate students who don't want to go through all the mathematics.
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4.0 out of 5 stars A Classic, Dec 12 2002
This review is from: Principles of Optics: Electromagnetic Theory of Propagation, Interference and Diffraction of Light (Hardcover)
This book is a classic with all problems associated. Half of the reference quoted have been written before the WWII. Very useful if you like to quote original papers. This book cover most topics of the classical optics but hardy cover modern topics.

However, it is hard to read and use a weird notation. Certainly not useful for rapid referencing. Like the bible, use it only when you have serious problem to deal with.

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4.0 out of 5 stars the reference., Aug 8 2002
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Patrick Van Esch (Grenoble, France) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Principles of Optics: Electromagnetic Theory of Propagation, Interference and Diffraction of Light (Hardcover)
It is of course the reference for optics, and is very complete
and rigorous. I didn't learn optics from it, I only use it
as a reference and I suppose that is its function.
It feels a bit oldfashioned (for example, I haven't found
speckel applications in the chapter on coherence) but I
suppose that that is due to the fact that it is a classic.
My other, personal, objection is that I hate Gaussian
units, I prefer by far SI units. Even Jackson finally
conceded to switch to SI units, but Wolf clings on this
Gaussian system.
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