Optics

*Hecht presents current, detailed, and comprehensive coverage of optics. *Extremely accurate and precise, this text has been a market standard for over a decade. *From advances with lenses and lasers to telescopes and fibers, the Third Edition treats all of the significant advances of which todays students should be aware. *As with previous editions, Optics, Third Edition by Eugene Hecht employs a good balance of theory and instrumentation, and provides students a classical background with historical anecdotes and citations. *At the request of Second Edition users, Hecht has added new problems that are designed primarily to develop students needed analytic skills. *Chapter 2 has been revised to make material clearer and provide broader foundation for whats to come. A more complete, low-level, discussion of Superposition Principle and new introductory section on Phasors and the Addition of Waves better prepares students for early qualitative discussions of both scattering and QED. *Chapter 3 contains a new section Averaging Harmonic Functions. Committed to integrating quantum mechanical ideas into basic discussion, the text qualitatively considers Photons and Photon Counting early o