Features

• Gives a deep yet straightforward understanding of classical and quantum optics
• Covers diffraction, polarization, and spectrometry
• Presents information gathered from measurements in classical and quantum optics
• Explains the key optical phenomenon based on detectors’ (sensors’) response characteristics
• Provides details on how measurable data emerges in detectors and through different physical interaction processes

Summary

This work explains how the non-interaction of waves principle applies to both classical and quantum optics. Focusing on waves in the linear domain, it explores ambiguous, contradictory, and paradoxical concepts that exist in spite of apparently correct mathematical formulations. The author reformulates classical and quantum optics mathematics by clearly defining the methodology used for gathering information from these measurements. The book provides the tools to properly validate a model of these measurements, thus giving a more coherent and simpler understanding of classical and quantum optics.