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Principles of Optics: Electromagnetic Theory of Propagation, Interference and Diffraction of Light (7th Edition) | 
 enlarge | Authors: Max Born, Emil Wolf
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  10 reviews
Sales Rank: 83581
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 7th
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 986
Shipping Weight (lbs): 3.9
Dimensions (in): 9.8 x 7.2 x 1.7
ISBN: 0521642221
Dewey Decimal Number: 535
EAN: 9780521642224
ASIN: 0521642221
Publication Date: October 13, 1999
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Product Description
Principles of Optics is one of the classic science books of the twentieth century, and probably the most influential book in optics published in the past forty years. This edition has been thoroughly revised and updated, with new material covering the CAT scan, interference with broad-band light and the so-called Rayleigh-Sommerfeld diffraction theory. This edition also details scattering from inhomogeneous media and presents an account of the principles of diffraction tomography to which Emil Wolf has made a basic contribution. Several new appendices are also included. This new edition will be invaluable to advanced undergraduates, graduate students and researchers working in most areas of optics.
Book Description
Principles of Optics is one of the classic science books of the twentieth century, and probably the most influential book in optics published in the past 40 years. The new edition is the first ever thoroughly revised and updated edition of this standard text and contains much new material. This standard work has been on the market for nearly 40 years and reprinted 16 times. The new edition will continue to be invaluable to advanced undergraduates, graduate students and researchers working in most areas of optics.
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 Need modernising July 10, 2007
Yes - all classical (linear) optical concepts are in here, and yes, it's the 'bible', but it's very dated in its content, style and references, generally, and not very practical to use.
I wish Hecht - or someone like him - would re-write this classic as a more advanced version of his book.
 The Bible July 5, 2007
Amazing book. It's the bible of geometric optics. Have everything you might need.
Needs a little previous knowledge, but which book doesn't?
A Classic in the Science of Optics September 25, 2004
10 out of 29 found this review helpful
I read this book in the late sixties, when some of my fellow engineers built and tested an acoustic lens for a developmental company. Born & Wolf were well-acquainted with antenna aperture theory, and were among the first to write that the human eye could resolve 5X better than aperture theory would predict. This they credited to involuntary eye movements called flicks and saccades, which when combined with the brain's ability to do signal processing, was able to produce much better resolution than would have been predicted by the diameter of the retinal rods. In many ways the book gives testimony to God's wonderful gift of vision with color, depth, clarity, and order.
Good book March 14, 2003
13 out of 14 found this review helpful
It is just a rare book on physical optics based on Maxwell equations. Rarely a book states the assumptions,the validity of the equations, the principles and how the equations arrived. Certainly, it is a great book for postgraduates and researchers in physical optics not so for undergraduate students who don't want to go through all the mathematics.
A Classic December 12, 2002
23 out of 25 found this review helpful
This book is a classic with all problems associated. Half of the reference quoted have been written before the WWII. Very useful if you like to quote original papers. This book cover most topics of the classical optics but hardy cover modern topics.However, it is hard to read and use a weird notation. Certainly not useful for rapid referencing. Like the bible, use it only when you have serious problem to deal with.
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