• INTRODUCTORY COMMENT:

    • The course will be given predominantly from the prescribed text, with the addition of notes and other available resources. The books listed below encompass a sound body of material, and some selective reading outside the class will be in your best interests. Prior familiarity with most aspects of classical mechanics (e.g. PHY 3221) and electromagnetic theory (e.g. PHY 3321) at the undergraduate level will generally be assumed.

  • Additional Texts:

    • Charles A. Bennett, "Principles of Physical Optics" (John Wiley and Sons, New Jersey, 2008) ISBN 0-470-12212-9
    • Eugene Hecht, "Optics" 4th ed (Addison-Wesley, Reading, 2001) ISBN 0-805-38566-5

  • Supplementary Reading:

    • Ajoy Ghatak, "Optics" (McGraw Hill, New York, 2010) ISBN 0-07-338048-2
    • Steven G. Lipson, Henry Lipson and David S. Tannhauser, "Optical Physics" 3rd ed (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1995) ISBN 0-521-43631-1
    • Francis A. Jenkins and Harvey E. White, "Fundamentals of Optics" 4th ed (McGraw-Hill, New York, 1976) ISBN 0-07-032330-5

  • Advanced Texts:

    • Max Born and Emil Wolf, "Principles of Optics: Electromagnetic Theory of Propagation, Interference and Diffraction of Light" 6th ed (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1997) ISBN 0-521-63921-2
    • Masud Mansuripur, "Classical Optics" 2nd ed (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2009) ISBN 0-521-88169-2

  • Special Topics:

    • Anthony E. Siegman, "Lasers" (University Science Books, Sausalito, 1986) ISBN 0-935702-11-3
    • Mark Fox, "Quantum Optics: An Introduction" (Oxford University Press, New York, 2006) ISBN 0-19-856673-5
    • Barry J. Uscinski, "The Elements of Wave Propagation in Random Media" (McGraw-Hill, New York, 1977). ISBN 0-07-066650-4