EEE 428 / 528 Optics
Textbook and references
Textbook (required)
- B. E. A. Saleh and M. C. Teich, Fundamentals of Photonics,
Wiley, 1991.
References
- K. Iizuka, Engineering Optics. (Very pedagogic introductory
text.)
- U. Haber-Schaim et al., PSSC Physics. (Excellent high school
text.)
- R. Feynman et al., The Feynman Lectures in Physics, volume
1. (Original, very instructive exposition.)
- M. V. Klein and T. E. Furtak, Optics. (Classic style
intermediate text.)
- K. D. Moller, Optics. (Classic style intermediate text.)
- E. Hecht, Optics. (Classic style intermediate text.)
- M. Born and E. Wolf, Principles of Optics. (Comprehensive
standard reference text.)
- J. W. Goodman, Introduction to Fourier Optics. (Classic text
with excellent exposition.)
- A. Papoulis, Systems and Transforms with Applications in
Optics. (Relatively comprehensive signals and systems approach.)
- Cobb and Cobb, Light Action: Amazing experiments with optics.
(A children's book but worth taking a look.)
- Hecht, Optics: Light for a New Age. (On the role of optics in
our age.)
Errata for the textbook (Saleh and Teich, Fundamentals of Photonics)
- In some older copies of the book, Equation 1.2-10 is wrong. The corrected equation is given below:
