Optics, Global Edition

by Eugene Hecht

Published June 1974

For courses in Optics

A Contemporary Approach to Optics with Practical Applications and New Focused Pedagogy

Hecht Optics balances theory and instrumentation and provides students with the necessary classical background through a lively and clear narrative.

Optics, 5th Edition is distinguished by three core imperatives: up-to-date content in line with the ever-evolving technological advances in the Optics field; a modern approach to discourse including studies on photons, phasors, and theory; and improvements and revisions to the previous edition’s pedagogy including over one hundred new worked examples.

Sustaining market leadership for over twenty years, Optics, 5th Edition continues to demonstrate range and balance in subject matter. The text is grounded in traditional methodology, while providing an early introduction to the powerful perspective of the Fourier theory, which is crucial to present-day analysis. Electron and neutron diffraction patterns are pictured alongside the customary photon images, and every piece of art has been scrutinised for accuracy and altered where appropriate to improve clarity.


Optics

by Eugene Hecht and Alfred Zajac

Published March 1987
This textbook provides a comprehensive and thorough coverage of optics. It employs a balance of theory and instrumentation, providing the student with a classical background with historical anecdotes and citations. It incorporates current advances from lenses and lasers to telescopes and fibres. Additional problems are provided, designed to develop analytical skills. A more complete low-level discussion of superposition principle is included, as well as an introductory section on phasors and the addition of waves.