Optical Electronics

This textbook provides senior undergraduates studying modern optics with a comprehensive account of optics and optical electronics. A large number of solved and unsolved problems are included in the book. The extensive coverage makes it valuable to postgraduates and also to optical engineers as a source of basic design information.<P>The initial chapters cover the basic principles involved in the propagation of electromagnetic waves. These are followed by a description of diffraction and its application to spatial frequency filtering and holography. Laser theory and the various types of laser are covered as well as the theory of optical waveguides fibre optics and integrated optics. The final chapters cover electrooptics acoustooptics and nonlinear optical effects.