1 comments about Holographic and Speckle Interferometry (Cambridge Studies in Modern Optics).

1. This book is very necesary for Applied Optic

No comments about Quantum Field Theory With Application to Quantum Nonlinear Optics.

1 comments about Operator Theory for Electromagnetics.

1. This book represents what I personally think is the missing link. Which link is that and between what?... well, the book introduces the reader to the very useful and easy, yet rigors theory of operators. This analytical tool is outstanding when someone wants to start proper analysis of an electromagnetic problem and wishes to do it in higher level of abstraction on the paper yet, with high level of details and physical understanding in mind. Therefore, The book is the link between the electromagnetism and theory of operators. The book is very useful for engineers and physicists who are not particularly interested in pure mathematics but instead, interested in the theory of operators as a powerful tool for both analytical and numerical formulations in electromagnetics. As a result, this book for advanced users and I suggest the beginners and intermediate readers to start with the book by Donald G. Dudley "Mathematical Foundations for Electromagnetic Theory ". Other sources that are of a great importance and support this book and make it perfect is the two by Ismo V. Lindell "Methods for Electromagnetic Field Analysis" and "Differential forms in Ellectromagnetics"

No comments about Introduction to Light Emitting Diode Technology and Applications.

No comments about Practical Optics.

4 comments about Lens Design, Fourth Edition (Optical Science and Engineering Series).

1. Lens design by laikin could be describe as a good but incomplete beginner book. Lens design is a quite strong and wide subject but reading this book as first action if you need to design you own imaging lens could save lot of you time and made you SECRETE success.

   The biggest quality of that script is the total absence of stupid remind as: what is a wave, do you remember matrix optic, what is a ray, etc. If the lens design is an inexplored world the first chapter will kept you awake. You will recive within 45 pages an emergency course around how we do that today!

   Unfortunaly the reverse is a lack of basic principe. Discussion about the aberration shape correction, iterration technique, some of the most common apartus are even forgiven, like the spectrometer. But even if such apartus is not treated i feel safe you will find somewhere else easyly, maybe too much often, the same the same thing taken from Borne and Wolfe (Principe of Optic).

   The SECRET of this book is than it not at all a physic book, nobody will give you some explanation about the calculus of MTF or some realted experiment (the basic laboratory tool to compute experimentaly such function are even not describe). You will get a well structured showing you the structure and the arrengement you should have to do that task i our computer world.

   The 20 example (7/8 of the whole book) is what you need because lens design I done necessary by iterative process, with the help of anay numerical methode to find out some good compromise! The author will give you a good starting point if you wish to modify an current design.

   I can promess you this book will be you favorite. However it noway some table and example salad. You get for each example two or tree lens prescription (radius, with, material, diameter), the lens drawing, some explanation and the corespondante MTF function. NOTHING ELSE. At least the first chapter finish you will be happy to have it under the hand when the time to explore a new design will come.




2. I work in the electro-optics field, with a background in EE and laser resonators. Since I came from a electrical engineering background, I have sought to get more knowledge in the practical field of lens design beyond laser resonators and optical accesories. For that reason, bought this book, as well as the Virendra N. Mahajan series on Optics and Abberrations.
   Unlike that series, as well as the Siegman classic on Lasers, this book introduces many equations, terms, and plots, as well as glass catalog items, with very little in the way of introduction, derivation or even an explanation of terms. It is solely meant for a an experienced practicing lens designers only. I was very disapppointed in this book and its review. I found it was reviewed wrongly, for the level at which it should be purchased and read, quite disceptive as a result, even though I wam sure it was not unintentional.



3. I got this book to learn about zoom lenses. It has 6 chapters on the subject, so it must have something to say. I started in chapter 33 (First Order Theory, Mechanically Compensated Zoom) and found that the second equation was wrong. Looking at things further, I found that the units do not match the meanings of the variables in the remainder of the chapter. The author seems to be cutting and pasting from several sources without regard to what the variables mean, and screws up the whole description in the process. The reference to MIL-HDBK-141 is all I got out of it. If you need to learn something, don't buy this book!



4. I've only read the first ten pages, but that was enough to know that this book needs help. Lots of help. I'm shocked to know that it is the FOURTH EDITION and the first ten pages are riddled with errors, inconsistencies, and all-around poor presentation. Paragraphs that seem to end mid-sentence. Big, bold, section headings that misspell common words like "refractive". Technical drawings that appear to have been done in Microsoft Paint (Seriously, check out the semicircle showing the angle theta on the middle of page 8. I'd give you the figure number BUT THEY DON'T LABEL IT.) Figures that sort of appear mid-sentence, as if they were entered in-line with text in MS Word. Variables that are suddenly introduced with no definition.
   
   Reading this is painful. I've read lots of scientific/mathematic/engineering texts (I have a PhD in Applied Physics). I will not continue with this book any further. I had to re-read the second page about ten times trying to figure out if they had randomly placed the wrong paragraph on it. I finally moved on and realized that no, this is just the way the book reads.
   
   Thank goodness I didn't pay for it (was included in a purchase of ZEMAX EE software for work).
   
   I do not doubt that the author is very experienced and has lots of knowledge to give, but he needs another pair of eyes (or two or three) to go through the book to edit and make sure it's readable and presented professionally. They also need to get someone to redo many of the figures/sketches. The text is worth one star, the inclusion of all the sample lens designs, both in the book and on the included CD-ROM, could be useful though.
   
   Mind you, I'm quitting mid-first chapter. Perhaps the book is amazing in later chapters, but I am definitely not sticking around to find out.

No comments about Fundamentals of Optical Fibers (Wiley Series in Pure and Applied Optics).

5 comments about Lasers and Electro-optics: Fundamentals and Engineering.

1. As a graduate student majoring optics, this is the kind of book that I always want to keep near me. This book combines important topics of laser, electro-optics, and more in a well organized manner. So anyone involved in laser, eletro-optics, and photinics can refer to only one book for the basic principles. The math is not so difficult and every derivation is worked out quite thoroughly. There are many useful examples of latest systems, elements too. However, the early part covering laser is not so detailed as the other laser books, although the second half dealing with electro-optics is excellent in every aspect. I had a quite hard time with Yariv's book of optical electronics, but feel pretty comfortable with this book. Highly recommendable to anyone majoring the field of laser, photonics.



2. I highly recommend this text. As a student under Prof Davis in 1995-96 I used his text extensively and found it to be extremely well designed and though in all regards.



3. This book is intended for a graduate-level course on lasers. While covering a number of subjects in depth, there are a large number of mistakes. There has been two reprintings with corrections, so I would hate to have seen the first printing. There are many mistakes in the equations (usually easily ferreted out) as well as in the problems. The problems can be very frustrating as they are often as clear as mud. Overall however, the book does do a good job of covering most topics, but if you are looking for a better lasers book, I would go with Verdeyen's Laser Electronics (ISBN:013706666X) or Siegman's Lasers (ISBN: 0935702113)



4. Davis offers a comprehensive sweep of the subject of lasers and electro-optics. Lasers are inherently quantum devices, and the text starts with a straightforwardly clear explanation based on elementary quantisation of energy levels. Flowing from this, various types of lasers are described. The historically important ruby laser, which was the first laser ever made. Gas lasers, like the He-Ne, are explained. Along with the Nd-YAG and Argon lasers. Dye lasers, with their tunable ability, are not neglected.
   
   But for electro-optical purposes, it is the solid state lasers that are the most significant. Davis describes the theory of heterojunctions, and how LEDs and lasers can be made and operated, based on these. There is a minimal explanation of solid state band structure. Enough to explain the devices at an engineering level. Though physics students might want to consult a text like Ashcroft and Mermin or Kittel for a more thorough excursion into the physics.
   
   Given the book's title, the text also devotes substantial space to explaining electro-optical elements and the circuits from which these can be made. Switches and detectors are well described.



5. Starting from Einstein's coefficients in Chapter 1 for stimulated emission this book tries to cover optical system, resonators, Solid-state Lasers, Gas Lasers and so on. Later Chapters deals with Coherence Theory, Laser Applications including holography and Laser Plasma generation. As a Laser Engineer I recommend this book for its efforts in trying to cover all the subfields in Lasers starting from the very beginning and taking complex issues one by one in a systematic way. Professor Davis surely deserves much kudos for writing materials in a easy and reader friendly way. Overall a very good intermediate level text on Laser!

2 comments about Antenna Engineering Using Physical Optics: Practical CAD Techniques and Software (Artech House Antenna Library).

1. Good book. It really goes into detail. The MATLAB code does not work due to missing functions "unitr" and "crossr".



2. Errors in the MATLAB code, Antenna Engineering Using Physical Optics

   There are errors in the MATLAB code files po09b, po13c, po15d, and po17b, most resulting from calls to previous versions of 3 m-file functions:

   incorrect name-----------------correct name
   unitr-------------------------norm01
   crossr------------------------cross01
   vlenr-------------------------length01

   These errors can be corrected by making the following changes:

   1. on m-file po09b, listed in pages 147-148 of the text, 4 lines must be changed:

   line 22 is:
   ut2=ones(Na,1)*unitr(crossr(un0,[1 0 0]));
   but should be:
   ut2=ones(Na,1)*norm01(cross01(un0,[1 0 0]));

   line 24 is:
   ut1=crossr(ut2,un0);
   but should be:
   ut1=cross01(ut2,un0);

   line 49 is:
   urs=unitr([rs zeros(Na,1)]);
   but should be:
   urs=norm01([rs-ones(size(DSa))*r0]);

   line 50 is:
   ups=crossr(uns,urs);
   but should be:
   ups=cross01(uns,urs);

   2. on m-file po13c, listed in pages 202-203 of the text, 3 lines must be changed:

   line 59 is:
   alr=atan(2*Fl./vlenr(rr));
   but should be:
   alr=atan(2*Fl./length01(rr-rr(:,3)*[0 0 1]));

   line 62 is:
   u2r=unitr(crossr(unr,ones(Nr,1)*[1 0 0]));
   but should be:
   u2r=norm01(cross01(unr,ones(Nr,1)*[1 0 0]));

   line 63 is:
   u1r=crossr(u2r,unr);
   but should be:
   u1r=cross01(u2r,unr);

   3. on m-file po15d, listed on pages 222-224 of the text, 1 line must be changed:

   line 26 is:
   u2bf=unitr(cross01(unbf,[1 0 0]));

   but should be:
   u2bf=norm01(cross01(unbf,[1 0 0]));

   4. on m-file po15e, listed on pages 222-224 of the text, 1 line must be changed:

   line 18 is:
   EscJ=-Z0*cross01(ut(nb,:),HscJ); % source E field
   HscM=1/Z0*cross01(ut(nb,:),EscM); % source E field
   but should be:
   EscJ=-Z0*cross01(unb(nb,:),HscJ); % source E field
   HscM=1/Z0*cross01(unb(nb,:),EscM); % source E field

   5. on m-file po17b, listed on pages 254-257 of the text, 2 lines must be changed:

   line 24 is:
   u2c1=unitr(cross01(unc1,[1 0 0]));
   but should be:
   u2c1=norm01(cross01(unc1,[1 0 0]));

   line 64 is:
   u2c2=unitr(cross01(unc2,[1 0 0]));
   but should be:
   u2c2=norm01(cross01(unc2,[1 0 0]));

1 comments about Optical Physics.

1. This is a good book on optics. It is quite an advanced book and may not be suitable for beginners. It covers a broad range of topics on classical optics including geometrical optics, ray optics and physical optics. It can also be used as a reference. Another good book at about the same level is Optics by Hecht.