Author Description

The principal objective of the book is to provide a comprehensive approach to the broad field of optics. The main topics covered are geometrical and physical optics. The main topics covered are geometrical and physical optics, the Fourier transforming property of lenses, and optical information processing (including complex spatial filtering and holography), acoustooptic, and electrooptic effects, principles of lasers and photo-detectors, and some topics from nonlinear optics (such as harmonic generation, phase conjugation, and optical bi-stability)