Introduction to Modern Optics by Grant R. Fowles, 0486659577, Lowest Book Price Finder

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Concise, informative and very useful

I bought "Modern Optics" as a recommended text for an optics course. This is not a book on geometrical optics, it deals with electromagnetics. What I love about this book is that is it full of information, not once has it left my desk since I purchased it. It cost only a fraction of some of my other textbooks but it is worth all of them put together (nearly).

Topics covered include light propagation, interference, thin-film layers, diffraction, holography, lasers, ray optics and many more. For such a small book, it packs a large punch.

An Interesting Book on Optics

I originally purchased this book with the intention of learning really basic optical theory, but was confronted with a lot of mathematics and equations. Although this book seems to be a very good treatment of optics for those with a strong mathematical background, I would not suggest it as a text for those without a mathematical background and wishing a very basic introduction as I did.

The book is, however, very informative and has many clear diagrams.

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