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Applied Electro-Optics
Author: Desmarais, Louis
Cover: Soft cover
Pages: 337
List Price: $60.00
Published by Prentice Hall
Date Published: 01/1998
ISBN: 0138027110
 Table of Contents
PREFACE ..... xi
1 INTRODUCTION AND OVERVIEW ..... 1
PART I ..... 8
2 HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT ..... 8
SUMMARY ..... 13
3 LIGHT AND THE ELECTROMAGNETIC SPECTRUM ..... 14
3.1 The Nature of Light ..... 14
3.2 Wave Motion ..... 17
3.3 Speed of Light ..... 22
3.4 The Electromagnetic Spectrum ..... 25
SUMMARY ..... 27
4 REFLECTION AND REFRACTION ..... 29
4.1 General Remarks ..... 29
4.2 Laws of Reflection and Refraction ..... 30
4.3 Total Internal Reflection ..... 34
4.4 Reflection Using Spherical Wavefronts ..... 36 Plane Mirrors ..... 36 Spherical Mirrors ..... 37
4.5 Image Formation Using Concave Mirrors ..... 39
4.6 Thin Lenses ..... 40 Converging Lenses ..... 41 Diverging Lenses ..... 42 Ray Diagrams ..... 42 Image Formation Using Convex Lenses ..... 43
4.7 Optical Fiber ..... 45
4.8 Optical Fiber Types ..... 49 Multimode Step-Index Fiber ..... 50 Multimode Graded-Index Optical Fiber ..... 52 Single Mode Optical Fiber ..... 53
4.9 Signal Attenuation in Optical Fiber ..... 54 Absorption ..... 56 Scattering Losses ..... 56 Radiative Losses ..... 57
4.10 Signal Distortion in Optical Fiber ..... 58 Modal Dispersion ..... 58 Intramodal Dispersion ..... 59
SUMMARY ..... 62
5 INTERFERENCE ..... 64
5.1 General Remarks ..... 64
5.2 Interference by Wavefront Division ..... 65 Effect of Light Source Spectrum ..... 70
5.3 Interference Fringes ..... 71
5.4 Interference by Amplitude Division ..... 74
5.5 The Fabry-Perot Interferometer ..... 77
5.6 Anti-Reflecting Films ..... 80
5.7 Interference Filters ..... 82
SUMMARY ..... 85
6 DIFFRACTION ..... 87
6.1 Diffraction-A Historical Perspective ..... 87
6.2 Diffraction of Light from a Single Slit ..... 88
6.3 Single Slit Diffraction Patterns ..... 92 Fraunhofer and Fresnel Diffraction ..... 93
6.4 Diffraction of Light from a Circular Aperture ..... 94
6.5 Double Slit Diffraction ..... 98
6.6 Diffraction Gratings-An Important Application of Diffraction ..... 100
6.7 Holography ..... 102
SUMMARY ..... 104
7 POLARIZATION OF LIGHT ..... 106
7.1 Polarization Involves Transverse Waves ..... 106
7.2 Polarization Caused by Double Refraction ..... 107
7.3 Circular Polarization ..... 109
7.4 Electro-Optic Modulators ..... 112 Bulk Modulators ..... 113 Integrated-Optic Modulators ..... 115
SUMMARY ..... 117
8 LIGHT AND THERMAL RADIATION ..... 119
8.1 Measurement of Light ..... 119 Radiant Power/Luminous Flux ..... 120 Radiant Emittance/Luminous Emittance ..... 120 Radiant Intensity/Luminous Intensity ..... 120 Radiance/Luminance ..... 121 Irradiance/Illuminance ..... 122
8.2 Blackbody Radiation ..... 122
8.3 Planck's Formula for Blackbody Radiation ..... 125
8.4 The Photoelectric Effect ..... 128 Results from the Photoelectric Effect Experiment ..... 130
SUMMARY ..... 131
9 QUANTA AND OPTICAL SPECTRA ..... 132
9.1 The Dual Nature of Light-Particles and Waves ..... 132
9.2 The Discovery of the Electron ..... 133
9.3 The Theory of Atomic Spectra ..... 138
9.4 Electron Waves ..... 144
9.5 Low Cost Spectroscope ..... 147
SUMMARY ..... 150
PART 2 ..... 151
10 SEMICONDUCTOR LIGHT SOURCES ..... 151
10.1 Emission P
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