Experiments in physical optics for undergraduate and graduate classes. Provides the theoretical basis of each experiment and describes the apparatus required and necessary adjustments. Most of the experiments require only lenses, prisms, mirrors, and polarizers, and can be projected on a lecture screen or viewed by television.

Maurice Francon, N. Krauzman, J. P. Mathieu and M. May

1. SOURCES OF CONTINUOUS AND LINE SPECTRA, 2. INTERFERENCE PHENOMENA WITH NON-LOCALIZED FRINGES, 3. INTERFERENCE PHENOMENA WITH LOCALIZED FRINGES, 4. MICHELSON INTERFEROMETER, 5. TEMPORAL COHERENCE AND SPATIAL COHERENCE, 6. MULTIPLE BEAM INTERFERENCE PRODUCED BY SEMI-REFLECTING PLATES, 7. APPLICATIONS OF INTERFEROMETRY, 8. DIFFRACTION AT A FINITE DISTANCE (FRESNEL), 9. DIFFRACTION AT INFINITY (FRAUNHOFER), 10. REFLECTION, REFRACTION, DISPERSION, 11. POLARIZATION BY REFLECTION, 12. POLARIZATION BY DOUBLE REFRACTION, 13. POLARIZERS BASED ON DOUBLE REFRACTION, 14. INTERFERENCE IN POLARIZED LIGHT, 15. STUDY OF POLARIZED VIBRATIONS, 16. ARTIFICIAL BIREFRINGENCE, 17. ROTATORY POLARIZATION, 18. DICHROISM, 19. PROPERTIES OF ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATIONS, 20. THERMAL RADIATION, 21. ABSORPTION AND EMISSION OF RADIATIONS BY ATOMS AND MOLECULES, 22. LUMINESCENCE, APPENDICES, INDEX