FUNDAMENTALS
OF OPTICS FourthEdition
Francis A. Jenkins
Late Professor of Physics
University of California, Berkeley
Harvey E.White
Professor of Physics, Emeritus
Director of the Lawrence Hall of Science, Emeritus
University of California, Berkeley
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CONTENTS
Preface to the Fourth Edition
Preface to the Third Edition
Part One Geometrical Optics
1 Properties of Light
1.1 The Rectilinear Propagation of Light
1.2 The Speed of Light
1.3 The Speed of Light in Stationary Matter
1.4 The Refractive Index
1.5 Optical Path
1.6 Laws of Reflection and Refraction
1.7 Graphical Construction for Refraction
1.8 The Principle of Reversibility
1.9 Fermat's Principle
1.10 Color Dispersion
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2 Plane Surfaces and Prisms
2.1 Parallel Beam
2.2 The Critical Angle and Total Reflection
2.3 Plane-Parallel Plate
2.4 Refraction by a Prism
2.5 Minimum Deviation
2.6 Thin Prisms
2.7 Combinations of Thin Prisms
2.8 Graphical Method of Ray Tracing
2.9 Direct-Vision Prisms
2.10 Reflection of Divergent Rays
2.11 Refraction of Divergent Rays
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2.13 Fiber Optics
Images Formed by Paraxial Rays
3 Spherical Surfaces
3.1 Focal Points and Focal Lengths
3.2 Image Formation
3.3 Virtual Images
3.4 Conjugate Points and Planes
3.5 Convention of Signs
3.6 Graphical Constructions. The Parallel-Ray Method
3.7 Oblique-Ray Methods
3.8 Magnification
3.9 Reduced Vergence
3.10 Derivation of the Gaussian Formula
3.11 Nomography
4 Thin Lenses
4.1 Focal Points and Focal Lengths
4.2 Image Formation
4.3 Conjugate Points and Planes
4.4 The Parallel-Ray Method
4.5 The Oblique-Ray Method
4.6 Use of the Lens Formula
4.7 Lateral Magnification
4.8 Virtual Images
4.9 Lens Makers' Formula
4.10 Thin-Lens Combinations
4.11 Object Space and Image Space
4.12 The Power of a Thin Lens
4.13 Thin Lenses in Contact
4.14 Derivation of the Lens Formula
4.15 Derivation of the Lens Makers' Formula
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5 Thick Lenses
5.1 Two Spherical Surfaces
5.2 The Parallel-Ray Method
5.3 Focal Points and Principal Points
5.4 Conjugate Relations
5.5 The Oblique-Ray Method
5.6 General Thick-Lens Formulas
5.7 Special Thick Lenses
5.8 Nodal Points and Optical Center,
5.9 Other Cardinal Points
5.10 Thin-Lens Combination as a Thick Lens
5.11 Thick-Lens Combinations
5.12 Nodal Slide
6 Spherical Mirrors
6.1 Focal Point and Focal Length
6.2 Graphical Constructions
6.3 Mirror Formulas
6.4 Power of Mirrors
6.5 Thick Mirrors
6.6 Thick-Mirror Formulas
6.7 Other Thick Mirrors
6.8 Spherical Aberration
6.9 Astigmatism
7 The Effects of Stops
7.1 Field Stop and Aperture Stop
7.2 Entrance and Exit Pupils
7.3 Chief Ray
7.4 Front Stop
7.5 Stop between Two Lenses
7.6 Two Lenses with No Stop
7.7 Determination of the Aperture Stop
7.8 Field of View
7.9 Field of a Plane Mirror
7.10 Field of a Convex Mirror
7.11 Field of a Positive Lens
8 Ray Tracing
8.1 Oblique Rays
8.2 Graphical Method for Ray Tracing
8.3 Ray-tracing Formulas
8.4 Sample Ray-tracing Calculations
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9 Lens Aberrations
9.1 Expansion of the Sine. First-Order Theory
9.2 Third-Order Theory of Aberrations
9.3 Spherical Aberration of a Single Surface
9.4 Spherical Aberration of a Thin Lens
9.5 Results of Third-Order Theory
9.6 Fifth-Order Spherical Aberration
9.7 Coma
9.8 Aplanatic Points of a Spherical Surface
9.9 Astigmatism
9.10 Curvature of Field
9.11 Distortion
9.12 The Sine Theorem and Abbe's Sine Condition
9.13 Chromatic Aberration
9.14 Separated Doublet
10 Optical
Instruments
10.1 The Human Eye
10.2 Cameras and Photographic Objectives
10.3 Speed of Lenses
10.4 Meniscus Lenses
10.5 Symmetrical Lenses
10.6 Triplet Anastigmats
10.7 Telephoto Lenses
10.8 Magnifiers
10.9 Types of Magnifiers
10.10 Spectacle Lenses
10.11 Microscopes
10.12 Microscope Objectives
10.13 Astronomical Telescopes
10.14 Oculars and Eyepieces
10.15 Huygens Eyepiece
10.16 Ramsden Eyepiece
10.17 Kellner or Achromatized Ramsden Eyepiece
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10.20 The Kellner-Schmidt Optical System
10.21 Concentric Optical Systems
Special Eyepieces
Prism Binoculars
Part Two Wave Optics
11 Vibrations
and Waves
11.1 Simple Harmonic Motion
11.2 The Theory of Simple Harmonic Motion
11.3 Stretching of a Coiled Spring
11.4 Vibrating Spring
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11.6 Sine Waves
11.7 Phase Angles
11.8 Phase Velocity and Wave Velocity
11.9 Amplitude and Intensity
11.10 Frequency and Wavelength
11.11 Wave Packets
12 The Superposition of Waves
12.1 Addition of Simple Harmonic Motions along the Same Line
12.2 Vector Addition of Amplitudes
12.3 Superposition of Two Wave Trains of the Same Frequency
12.4 Superposition of Many Waves with Random Phases
12.5 Complex Waves
12.6 Fourier Analysis
12.7 Group Velocity
12.8 Graphical Relation between Wave and Group Velocity
12.9 Addition of Simple Harmonic Motions at Right Angles
13 Interference of Two Beams of Light
13.1 Huygens' Principle
13.2 Young's Experiment
13.3 Interference Fringes from a Double Source
13.4 Intensity Distribution in the Fringe System
13.5 Fresnel's Biprism
13.6 Other Apparatus Depending on Division of the Wave Front
13.7 Coherent Sources
13.8 Division of Amplitude. Michelson Interferometer
13.9 Circular Fringes
13.10 Localized Fringes
13.11 White-Light Fringes
13.12 Visibility of the Fringes
13.13 Interferometric Measurements of Length
13.14 Twyman and Green Interferometer
13.15 Index of Refraction by Interference Methods
14 Interference Involving Multiple Reflections
14.1 Reflection from a Plane-Parallel Film
14.2 Fringes of Equal Inclination
14.3 Interference in the Transmitted Light
14.4 Fringes of Equal Thickness
14.5 Newton's Rings
14.6 Nonreflecting Films
14.7 Sharpness of the Fringes
14.8 Method of Complex Amplitudes
14.9 Derivation of the Intensity Function
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Fabry-Perot Interferometer
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14.11 Brewster's Fringes
14.12 Chromatic Resolving Power
14.13 Comparison of Wavelengths with the Interferometer
14.14 Study of Hyperfine Structure and of Line Shape
14.15 Other Interference Spectroscopes
14.16 Channeled Spectra.
Interference Filter
15 Fraunhofer Diffraction by a Single Opening
15.1 Fresnel and Fraunhofer Diffraction
15.2 Diffraction by a Single Slit
15.3 Further Investigation of the Single-Slit Diffraction Pattern
15.4 Graphical Treatment of Amplitudes. The Vibration Curve
15.5 Rectangular Aperture
15.6 Resolving Power with a Rectangular Aperture
15.7 Chromatic Resolving Power of a Prism
15.8 Circular Aperture
15.9 Resolving Power of a Telescope
15.10 Resolving Power of a Microscope
15.11 Diffraction Patterns with Sound and Microwaves
16 The Double Slit
16.1 Qualitative Aspects of the Pattern
16.2 Derivation of the Equation for the Intensity
16.3 Comparison of the Single-Slit and Double-Slit Patterns
16.4 Distinction between Interference and Diffraction
16.5 Position of the Maxima and Minima. Missing Orders
16.6 Vibration Curve
16.7 Effect of Finite Width of Source Slit
16.8 Michelson's Stellar Interferometer
16.9 Correlation Interferometer
16.10 Wide-Angle Interference
17 The Diffraction Grating
17.1 Effect of Increasing the Number of Slits
17.2 Intensity Distribution from an Ideal Grating
17.3 Principal Maxima
17.4 Minima and Secondary Maxima
17.5 Formation of Spectra by a Grating
17.6 Dispersion
17.7 Overlapping of Orders
17.8 Width of the Principal Maxima
17.9 Resolving Power
17.10 Vibration Curve
17.11 Production of Ruled Gratings
17.12 Ghosts
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