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Physical Optics
Physical optics, or wave optics, is the branch of optics that studies interference, diffraction, polarization, and other phenomena for which the ray approximation of geometric optics is not valid.
- Author
- Jeremy Tatum
- Publisher
- University of Victoria
- Source
- LibreTexts
- License
- CC BY-NC
- Language
- EN
- Category
- Basic Sciences
Contents· 13 sections
- 01: Reflection and Refraction via Fermat's Principle and Huygens' Construction
- 1.01: Reflection and Refraction
- 02: Reflection and Transmission at Boundaries and the Fresnel Equations
- 2.01: Waves in a Stretched String
- 2.02: Light Incident Normally at a Boundary
- 2.03: Light Incident at the Brewster Angle
- 2.04: Electric and Magnetic Fields at a Boundary
- 2.05: Impedance
- 2.06: Incidence at an Arbitrary Angle.
- 03: The Cornu Spiral
- 3.01: Cornu's Spiral
- 04: Stokes Parameters for Describing Polarized Light
- 4.01: Polarized Light and the Stokes Parameters