
Light and X-Ray Optics
Refraction, Reflection, Diffraction, Optical Devices, Microscopic Imaging
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- English
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Light and X-Ray Optics
Refraction, Reflection, Diffraction, Optical Devices, Microscopic Imaging
About this book
Contemporary optics is the foundation of many of today's technologies including various focusing and defocusing devices, microscopies and imaging techniques. Light and X-ray Optis for Materials Scientists and Engineers offers a guide to basic concepts and provides an accessible framework for understanding this highly application-relevant branch of science for materials scientists, physicists, chemists, biologists, and engineers trained in different disciplines. The text links the fundamentals of optics to modern applications, especially for promotion of nanotechnology and life science, such as conventional, near-field, confocal, phase-contrast microscopies and imaging schemes based on interference and diffraction phenomena. Written by a noted expert and experienced instructor, the book contains numerous worked examples throughout to help the reader gain a thorough understanding of the concepts and information presented. The text covers a wide range of relevant topics, including reflection, refraction, and focusing phenomena, wave polarization and birefringence in crystals, optics in negative materials, metamaterials, and photonic structures, holography, light and X-ray interferometry, extensive description of diffraction optics, including dynamical X-ray diffraction, and more.
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Table of contents
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Preface
- Introduction
- Chapter 1âFoundations of geometrical optics
- Chapter 2âFermatâs principle: light reflection and refraction
- Chapter 3âFermatâs principle: focusing of visible light and X-rays
- Chapter 4âRefractive index in anisotropic crystals
- Chapter 5âPolarization, birefringence, and related phenomena
- Chapter 6âStrong frequency effects in light optics
- Chapter 7âInterference phenomena
- Chapter 8âLight and X-ray interferometers
- Chapter 9âPhase-contrast microscopy
- Chapter 10âFraunhofer diffraction
- Chapter 11âBeyond diffraction limit
- Chapter 12âFresnel diffraction
- Chapter 13âOptics of dynamical diffraction
- Chapter 14âDynamical diffraction of quantum beams: basic principles
- Chapter 15âSpecific features of dynamical X-ray diffraction
- Chapter 16âOptical phenomena in photonic structures
- Index