OPTICS: LECTURES ON THEORETICAL PHYSICS
CONTENTS ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE IN OPTICS MAIN APPLICATIONS OF ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES WAVE-PARTICLE DUALITY WHAT IS A WAVE? ELECTRIC DIPOLE RADIATION LIGHT DETECTORS INTERFERENCE, DIFFRACTION PHOTOMETRY PERCEPTION AND REPRODUCTION OF COLORS ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES MATHEMATICAL FORMULATION OF ELECTROMAGNETISM THE DIFFERENT KINDS OF WAVES SOLUTIONS OF MAXWELL’S EQUATIONS FOR HARMONIC PLANAR WAVES STRUCTURE OF AN ELECTROMAGNETIC PLANAR WAVE GENERAL HARMONIC WAVES SPHERICAL WAVES GEOMETRICAL OPTICS GEOMETRICAL PROPAGATION OF LIGHT FERMAT’S PRINCIPLE FORMATION OF IMAGES THIN LENSES CENTERED SYSTEMS UNDER GAUSS CONDITIONS ANNEX 3 A THIN LENSES LENS CONSIDERED AS A PRISM HAVING A VARIABLE ANGLE LENS CONSIDERED AS A PHASE CORRECTING DEVICE MATRICES FOR THE ASSOCIATION OF THIN LENSES ANNEX 3 B OPTICAL PRISMS DE?NITION AND DESCRIPTION OF OPTICAL PRISMS LIGHT PROPAGATION INSIDE A PRISM RE?ECTING PRISMS ANNEX 3 C GRADIENT INDEX DEVICES—LIGHT OPTICS AND ELECTRON OPTICS THE EIKONAL EQUATION DIFFERENTIAL EQUATION OF LIGHT RAYS CENTERED OPTICAL SYSTEM WITH A NONCONSTANT INDEX OF REFRACTION OPTICS OF CHARGED PARTICLE BEAMS POLARIZED LIGHT—LAWS OF RE?ECTION LIGHT VIBRATION IS A VECTOR ANALYZERS—POLARIZERS RE?ECTION—REFRACTION ANNEX 4 A TE MODES—TM MODES SCALAR NATURE OF TWO-DIMENSIONAL ELECTROMAGNETIC PROBLEMS ANNEX 4 B DETERMINATION OF AN UNKNOWN POLARIZATION BIREFRINGENCE DOUBLE REFRACTION PERMITTIVITY TENSOR PLANAR WAVES OBEYING MAXWELL’S EQUATIONS IN AN ANISOTROPIC MATERIAL CONSTRUCTIONS OF THE REFRACTED BEAMS ASPECT OF THE SURFACES OF THE INDICES AND THE INVERSE OF THE INDICES CIRCULAR BIREFRINGENCE INDUCED BIREFRINGENCE ANNEX 5 A RAY TRACING IN UNIAXIAL MEDIA CONSTRUCTION OF THE REFRACTED BEAM ON AN ISOTROPIC/UNIAXIAL INTERFACE REFRACTION OF A MONOCHROMATIC BEAM BY A BIREFRINGENT PRISM SEPARATION OF EXTRAORDINARY RAYS FROM ORDINARY RAYS BY A BIREFRINGENT PLATE REALIZATION OF POLARIZERS BIREFRINGENCE AND DISPERSION ANNEX 5 B CHARACTERISTIC SURFACES IN ANISOTROPIC MEDIA FRESNEL FORMULAS IN ANISOTROPIC MEDIA SURFACE OF THE NORMALS (OR SURFACE OF THE INDICES) WAVE SURFACE (OR SURFACE OF THE INVERSE OF THE INDICES) ANNEX 5 C INTERFERENCE USING POLARIZED LIGHT BEAMS WAVE PLATES ORTHOGONALLY POLARIZED BEAMS ARE UNABLE TO INTERFERE INTERFERENCE USING POLARIZED MONOCHROMATIC LIGHT BEAMS WAVE PLATES INTERFERENCE WITH POLARIZED WHITE BEAMS ANNEXE 5 D LIQUID CRYSTALS INTRODUCTION PHYSICAL-CHEMISTRY OF LIQUID CRYSTALS ORIENTATION OF MOLECULES IN A NEMATIC PHASE LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY LIGHT VALVE INTERFERENCE WAVE FRONT DIVISION INTERFEROMETERS AMPLITUDE SPLITTING INTERFEROMETERS DUAL-BEAM INTERFERENCE THE FABRY-PEROT INTERFEROMETER INTERFERENCE USING STACKS OF THIN TRANSPARENT LAYERS DIFFRACTION THE HUYGENS-FRESNEL POSTULATE FRAUNHOFER DIFFRACTION FRESNEL DIFFRACTION DIFFRACTION GRATINGS HOLOGRAPHY DIFFRACTION AND IMAGE PROCESSING PHYSICAL MECHANISMS INVOLVED WITH PROPAGATION IN A TRANSPARENT MATERIAL DETERMINATION OF THE INDEX OF REFRACTION THE INDEX OF REFRACTION IS A COMPLEX NUMBER ANNEX 8 A ELECTRIC DIPOLAR RADIATION DE?NITION OF AN OSCILLATING DIPOLE ELECTRIC AND MAGNETIC FIELDS CREATED BY A DIPOLE POWER RADIATED BY AN OSCILLATING DIPOLE FIELD RADIATED BY A PLANAR DISTRIBUTION OF OSCILLATING DIPOLES ANNEX 8 B THE KRAMERS-KRÖNIG FORMULA DEMONSTRATION OF THE KRAMERS-KRÖNIG FORMULA NORMAL DISPERSION LASERS LASER, A FEEDBACK OSCILLATOR OPTICAL AMPLI?CATION HOW TO OBTAIN AN INVERSION OF POPULATION THE FABRY-PEROT RESONATOR SPECTRAL CHARACTERISTICS OF LIGHT EMITTED BY A LASER LASER TRANSIENT EFFECTS ORIGINALITY OF LASER LIGHT ANNEX 9 A LIGHT-SEMICONDUCTOR INTERACTION ENERGY LEVELS IN A SEMICONDUCTOR SPONTANEOUS AND STIMULATED EFFECTS IN A SEMICONDUCTOR THE BERNARD-DURAFFOURG FORMULA, INVERSION OF POPULATION ANNEX 9 B SPECTRAL WIDTH OF A LASER OSCILLATION NONLINEAR OPTICS MICROSCOPIC INTERPRETATION OF A NONLINEAR OPTICAL INTERACTION PHASE MATCHING CONDITION NONLINEAR POLARIZATION EQUATIONS OF PROPAGATION IN A NONLINEAR MATERIAL THIRD-ORDER NONLINEAR PHENOMENA RAMAN-BRILLOUIN-RAYLEIGH DIFFUSION RAMAN, BRILLOUIN, RAYLEIGH, AND MIE SCATTERING EXPERIMENTAL INTRODUCTION TO THE RAMAN EFFECT THEORETICAL ANALYSIS OF THE RAMAN EFFECT BRILLOUIN DIFFUSION ANNEX 11 A DIFFUSION OF LIGHT BY A SCATTERED MEDIUM GUIDED OPTICS PROPAGATION IN A STEP INDEX PLANAR GUIDE OPTICAL FIBERS ANNEX 12 A SPLITTERS AND COUPLERS 12 A 1 THE Y-JUNCTION 12 A 2 DISTRIBUTED COUPLERS 12 A 3 COUPLED MODE THEORY ANNEX 12 B ATTENUATION OF SILICA FIBERS ANNEX 12 C ELABORATION OF OPTICAL GUIDES 12 C 1 OPTICAL FIBERS 12 C 2 INTEGRATED OPTICS FOURIER ANALYSIS AND FOURIER TRANSFORM FOURIER SERIES FOURIER INTEGRALS AND FOURIER TRANSFORM SOME IMPORTANT PROPERTIES OF THE FOURIER TRANSFORM TWO-DIMENSIONAL FOURIER TRANSFORM SOME FAMOUS FOURIER TRANSFORMS WAVE PACKET