Light and X-Ray Optics : : Refraction, Reflection, Diffraction, Optical Devices, Microscopic Imaging / / Emil Zolotoyabko.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2023 Part 1
• VerfasserIn: Zolotoyabko, Emil,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2023]; ©2023
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Language: English
• Series: De Gruyter STEM
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (XII, 286 p.)

Contemporary optics is the foundation of many of today’s technologies including various focusing and defocusing devices, microscopies and imaging techniques. Light and X-ray Optis for Materials Scientists and Engineers offers a guide to basic concepts and provides an accessible framework for understanding this highly application-relevant branch of science for materials scientists, physicists, chemists, biologists, and engineers trained in different disciplines. The text links the fundamentals of optics to modern applications, especially for promotion of nanotechnology and life science, such as conventional, near-field, confocal, phase-contrast microscopies and imaging schemes based on interference and diffraction phenomena. Written by a noted expert and experienced instructor, the book contains numerous worked examples throughout to help the reader gain a thorough understanding of the concepts and information presented. The text covers a wide range of relevant topics, including reflection, refraction, and focusing phenomena, wave polarization and birefringence in crystals, optics in negative materials, metamaterials, and photonic structures, holography, light and X-ray interferometry, extensive description of diffraction optics, including dynamical X-ray diffraction, and more.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 Foundations of geometrical optics -- Chapter 2 Fermat’s principle: light reflection and refraction -- Chapter 3 Fermat’s principle: focusing of visible light and X-rays -- Chapter 4 Refractive index in anisotropic crystals -- Chapter 5 Polarization, birefringence, and related phenomena -- Chapter 6 Strong frequency effects in light optics -- Chapter 7 Interference phenomena -- Chapter 8 Light and X-ray interferometers -- Chapter 9 Phase-contrast microscopy -- Chapter 10 Fraunhofer diffraction -- Chapter 11 Beyond diffraction limit -- Chapter 12 Fresnel diffraction -- Chapter 13 Optics of dynamical diffraction -- Chapter 14 Dynamical diffraction of quantum beams: basic principles -- Chapter 15 Specific features of dynamical X-ray diffraction -- Chapter 16 Optical phenomena in photonic structures -- List of scientists -- Index