Optical Science and Engineering

Optical Science and Engineering explores the fundamental principles and advanced topics within the field of optical science and engineering.

Elias Glytsis received his undergraduate diploma from National Technical University of Athens (Greece) in Electrical Engineering in 1982, and his MSEE and PhD degrees from Georgia Institute of Technology in 1984 and 1987, respectively. From January 1988 till June 2003, he served as a Professor at the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering of Georgia Institute of Technology. In July 2003 he joined the faculty at the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering of National Technical University of Athens in Greece at the rank of a tenured Professor. Dr. Glytsis is a senior member of IEEE, a Fellow of the Optical Society of America, a member of EURATOM-Hellenic Republic, and a member of the Greek Society of Professional Engineers.

Preface Chapter 1 Brief History of Optics Chapter 2 Geometrical Optics Chapter 3 Physical and Electromagnetic Optics Chapter 4 Light Measurement and Emission: Radiometry, Photometry, and Black- body Radiation Chapter 5 Scalar Diffraction Chapter 6 Basics of Fourier Optics Chapter 7 Vector Diffraction Bibliography