TY - GEN AU - Born,Max AU - Wolf,Emil TI - Principles of optics : electromagnetic theory of propagation, interference and diffraction of light: electromagnetic theory of propagation, interference and diffraction of light SN - 0521642221 PY - 1999/// CY - Cambridge, New York PB - Cambridge University Press KW - Optics N2 - "The first ever thoroughly revised and expanded edition of one of the classic books on optics of the twentieth century; new material includes an account of the CAT scan (computerized axial tomography); an expanded section on diffraction, including an account of the Rayleigh-Sommerfeld theory; explanation of effects of spatial coherence on the spectrum of light, illustrated by Young's interference experiment with broad-band light; new chapter on both scalar and electromagnetic scattering; and new appendices include; an account of energy conservation in scalar wavefields Jones' lemma on asymptotic behaviour of certain integrals."--BK JACKET ER -