TY - BOOK AU - Hecht,Eugene TI - Optics SN - 0805385665 AV - QC355.3 .H43 2002 U1 - 535 HEC 22 PY - 2002///] CY - Reading, Mass. PB - Addison-Wesley KW - Optics KW - Optics and Photonics KW - Optica N2 - Accurate, comprehensive and precise, this revision provides students with the most up-to-date coverage of optics. Responsive to students' needs, the focus of the revision was to fine-tune the pedagogy, modernize the discourse, and update the content. This book continues the gradually modernizing treatment of the previous edition by imparting an appreciation of the central role of atomic scattering, providing an understanding of the insightful perspective offered by the Fourier Theory, and by, from the outset, explicating the underlying quantum mechanical nature of light. Additionally, Hecht addresses all of today's significant technological advances ER -