Light and X-Ray Optics: Refraction, Reflection, Diffraction, Optical Devices, Microscopic Imaging

Emil Zolotoyabko

Published by De Gruyter 2023

Light and X-Ray Optics

Refraction, Reflection, Diffraction, Optical Devices, Microscopic Imaging

Emil Zolotoyabko

In the series De Gruyter STEM

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111140100

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About this book

Contemporary optics is the foundation of many of today’s technologies including various focusing and defocusing devices, microscopies and imaging techniques. Light and X-ray Optis for Materials Scientists and Engineers offers a guide to basic concepts and provides an accessible framework for understanding this highly application-relevant branch of science for materials scientists, physicists, chemists, biologists, and engineers trained in different disciplines. The text links the fundamentals of optics to modern applications, especially for promotion of nanotechnology and life science, such as conventional, near-field, confocal, phase-contrast microscopies and imaging schemes based on interference and diffraction phenomena. Written by a noted expert and experienced instructor, the book contains numerous worked examples throughout to help the reader gain a thorough understanding of the concepts and information presented. The text covers a wide range of relevant topics, including reflection, refraction, and focusing phenomena, wave polarization and birefringence in crystals, optics in negative materials, metamaterials, and photonic structures, holography, light and X-ray interferometry, extensive description of diffraction optics, including dynamical X-ray diffraction, and more.

Provides big picture view of modern optics and its microscopic and imaging application.
Contains working examples of basic principles and their usage in focusing devices and advanced microscopies, like near-field, confocal, phase-contrast, etc.

Author / Editor information

Emil Zolotoyabko is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering of the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology. For six years he served as Faculty Dean and for four years as a member of the Technion’s Standing Committee. He was awarded the Schlesinger Prize for Encouragement of Research, the Henry Taub Prize for Excellence in Research, the Technion Excellence in Teaching, and held the Abraham Tulin Academic Chair. Emil Zolotoyabko has authored more than 200 scientific publications, four books and four chapters in books devoted to the development of new X-ray diffraction methods and their applications for studying the structure and dynamical characteristics of different materials systems. Main scientific achievements include: direct wave summation method in X-ray diffraction simulations; development of Mössbauer diffraction to study low-frequency lattice dynamics by inelastic scattering in crystals at phase transitions; fast stroboscopic X-ray diffraction and imaging techniques for investigating crystal dynamics on a nanosecond time scale; energy-variable X-ray diffraction for microstructural characterization with sub-micron spatial resolution; measurement of the speed of X-rays; discovery by high-resolution X-ray diffraction of the protein-associated anisotropic lattice distortions in biocomposites grown by living organisms.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Preface Publicly Available Download PDF	VII
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	IX
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Chapter 1 Foundations of geometrical optics Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	3
Chapter 2 Fermat’s principle: light reflection and refraction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	10
Chapter 3 Fermat’s principle: focusing of visible light and X-rays Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	21
Chapter 4 Refractive index in anisotropic crystals Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	42
Chapter 5 Polarization, birefringence, and related phenomena Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	49
Chapter 6 Strong frequency effects in light optics Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	83
Chapter 7 Interference phenomena Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	97
Chapter 8 Light and X-ray interferometers Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	114
Chapter 9 Phase-contrast microscopy Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	133
Chapter 10 Fraunhofer diffraction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	141
Chapter 11 Beyond diffraction limit Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	159
Chapter 12 Fresnel diffraction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	172
Chapter 13 Optics of dynamical diffraction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	196
Chapter 14 Dynamical diffraction of quantum beams: basic principles Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	205
Chapter 15 Specific features of dynamical X-ray diffraction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	229
Chapter 16 Optical phenomena in photonic structures Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	255
List of scientists Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	271
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	281

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter
Audience: Students and Researchers, trained as Materials Scientists, Physicists, Chemists, Biologists, or Engineers.
Pages
- Front matter: 12
- Main content: 286
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 7
- Coloured Illustrations: 203
- Tables: 0
- Coloured Tables: 0
Keywords: Microscopic Imaging; Wave interference; Light Difraction; X-ray Diffraction; Optical Devices

eBook

Published: September 7, 2023
ISBN: 9783111140100

Paperback

Published: June 19, 2023
ISBN: 9783111139692