Optics 01 Edition (English, Paperback, Srivastava)

Optics is a textbook written for undergraduate students of Indian Universities keeping in view the recent developments in optics following invention of lasers. The salient features of the book are four self-contained chapters on Lasers Holography Fiber Opticsand Non-Linear Optics at the level of understanding of undergraduate students. Besides there are standard topics such as Flay Optics Interference Diffraction and Polarization. Even here the distinctive features are the use of matrix method in ray optics and in description of polarization states of light. Interference due to an extended source is discussed in relevant details to bring out the concept of spatial coherence. There are brief supplements on Kirchhoffs theory of diffraction and the theory of partial coherence.

About the Author
P.K. Srivastava obtained his M.Sc. And Ph.D. from IIT Kanpur where he worked in theoretical particle physics. He is presently Reader in Physics at DAV (PG) College Kanpur During 1985 he worked as Geophysicist with ONGCIndia and between 1991-96he taught Biophysics at Life Sciences Department Kanpur University. An Associate of IUCAA he is currently active in observational radio astronomy at GMRT. He has authoredseveral books such as Problems in Physics and Mechanics.