Optics

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Optics

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Contents

• Light
  • Nature of light
    • Waves
    • Evidence for wave properties of light
    • Evidence for light as a stream of particles
  • Features of a wave
• Propagation of light
  • Fermat's Principle
  • Refraction
  • Total internal reflection
• Fibre optics
• Images
  • Images
    • Real images
    • Virtual images
  • Curved mirrors
  • The mirror equation
• Lenses
  • Introduction
  • Refraction at a spherical interface
  • A lens
    • Locating the image
    • The lensmaker’s equation
    • Converging and diverging lenses
• Optical instruments using lenses
  • Single-lens systems
    • A magnifying glass
  • Compound optical systems
  • The refracting telescope
• Interference and diffraction
  • Wave phenomena
  • Huygens’ Principle
    • Introduction
    • Interference
    • Diffraction
  • Summary of formulas in this chapter

• Small angle approximation
  • Small angle approximation
• Derivations for the Module 7 exam
  • Derivations for the Module 7 exam

X-ray optics

Authors

External Resources

• Diffractive optics papers and patents.
• Also available [1] and [2] news and events.
• Gradient-index optics reviews, theory and ideas