Books on reserve for P106

All of these books are in the Reserve Room in Brauer (Math/Physics) Library on the 3rd floor of Phillips Hall. They can be checked out for four hours when the library is open, or overnight after 4:45 p.m. (1:00 p.m. Saturday).

Optical Physics by S.G. Lipson, H. Lipson, and D.S. Tannhauser (Cambridge Univ. Press 1995) This is the textbook we are using for the class. Optics by E. Hecht with contributions by A. Zajac (Addison-Wesley 1987) This textbook is at a lower mathematical level than we are working, but it has good qualitative explanations and lots of excellent pictures. It makes a good supplement for when you are feeling a bit lost among the mathematical "trees" and want to get a better sense of the optics "forest." Principles of Optics by Max Born and Emil Wolf (Pergamon Press 1980) This is a reissue of an older book (a "classic"), which has a very thorough and rigorous treatment of the central topics of the course, especially diffraction. It is rather heavy going, but certainly complete. Optics and Lasers by M. Young (Springer-Verlag 1986) A nice (if brief) treatment of some modern topics we will cover (and some we won’t), including Fourier optics and waveguides (including fiber optics) Linear Systems, Fourier Transforms, and Optics by J.D. Gaskill (Wiley 1978) The title is self-explanatory. It is a good source for more extensive explanations of Fourier optics and related topics, beyond what our textbook has. Brauer Library has an extensive collection of other optics books, including many on specialized topics that may be useful for your paper/presentation. Check the on-line catalog under suitable keywords, or browse the stacks around call numbers QC 350-467 or TA 1501-1820. You’ll be glad you did.

Brauer also has subscriptions to a number of optics journals that publish original research results. You can search them for articles on individual topics (get the librarians to help you if you have not used the physics search tools before). These journals publish more state-of-the-art information than you will find in the books, but in a style intended for specialists.

If you still need more information, you can make use of the reciprocal borrowing arrangements UNC has with NCSU and Duke. You can search their catalogs on-line. Ask the librarians about how to get access to those collections. Since both places have engineering schools, their collections are stronger than ours in areas such as optoelectronics and optical computing.