Optics

• Optics
  • Geometrical Optics
    • Pinhole Cameras
    • Thin Lens
    • Snell’s law
    • Thick Lens
    • Microscopes
    • Telescopes
  • Physical Optics
    • Etendue 2
    • Wavevector
    • Diffraction
    • Interference
• Fourier Optics
• Nonlinear optics
• Quantum Optics
  • Lasers
• Resources

Optics

Geometrical Optics

Pinhole Cameras

See projective geometry

Thin Lens

Snell’s law

Thick Lens

Microscopes

Telescopes

Physical Optics

Etendue 2

Numericsl Aperture

Wavevector

Wavevectors match across boundaries. This is more geoemtry than physics or differential equations Moire Patterns

Diffraction

Single and Double Near Field Fraunhofer Analogies with Quantum Mechanics

Interference

Fourier Optics

Paraxial optics and quantum mechanics. Etendue and phase space

Analytic signal https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analytic_signal Coherence Spatial and temporal

Nonlinear optics

Quantum Optics

Haken : Light Coherent states

AMO

Lasers

Resources

Hecht Jenkins and White Born and Wolf