"This well-known textbook is now available in a re-issued edition from Cambridge University Press. 'Introduction to optics' offers a comprehensive and engaging introduction to intermediate and upper-level undergraduate physics and engineering students, and allows instructors to select specialized content to suit individual curricular needs and goals. Features: more than 600 carefully selected end-of-chapter problems; many technical illustrations designed to enhance student understanding; an early discussion of lasers, which establishes the importance of the laser as an optical instrument and allows for early introduction of various applications and discussions related to laser operation; [and] the inclusion of modern applications such as: liquid crystal displays, CCDs, CD and DVD technology, optical parametric oscillators and amplifiers, near field microscopy, ultra short pulses, manipulation of atoms with lassers (optical tweezers, optical cooling and trapping), selected applications in nanophotonics and biophotonics, extensive treatment of communicatino systems using optical fibers, and wavelength division multiplexing." -- rear cover.