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Title: Principles of Optics: Electromagnetic Theory of Propagation, Interference and Diffraction of Light (7th Edition)
ISBN: 0521642221
Author:
Max Born
Emil Wolf
Publicate Date: 1999-10-13
Publish: 1999-10-13
List Price: $90.00
Average Customer Rating: 4.5
Format: Hardcover
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1: Need modernising
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.
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2: The Bible
Amazing book. It's the bible of geometric optics. Have everything you might need.
Needs a little previous knowledge, but which book doesn't?
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3: A Classic in the Science of Optics
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.
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4: Good book
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.
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5: A Classic
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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