Donna Strickland
University of Waterloo, Nobel Prize in Physics 2018
Book Recommendations:
Recommended by Donna Strickland
“I fondly remember Emil Wolf’s genuine kindness. For example, he offered me a ride in a snow storm without recognizing that I was a student walking to his class. I wouldn’t be without Principles of Optics in my office. So many times I have used it to better understand an optics concept that I am either teaching or using in my own research.” (from Amazon)
by Max Born, Emil Wolf·You?
by Max Born, Emil Wolf·You?
Principles of Optics is one of the most highly cited and most influential physics books ever published, and one of the classic science books of the twentieth century. To celebrate the 60th anniversary of this remarkable book's first publication, the seventh expanded edition has been reprinted with a special foreword by Sir Peter Knight. The seventh edition was the first thorough revision and expansion of this definitive text. Amongst the material introduced in the seventh edition is a section on CAT scans, a chapter on scattering from inhomogeneous media, including an account of the principles of diffraction tomography, an account of scattering from periodic potentials, and a section on the so-called Rayleigh–Sommerfield diffraction theory. This expansive and timeless book continues to be invaluable to advanced undergraduates, graduate students and researchers working in all areas of optics.