| Preface | p. V |
| Geometrical Optics | |
| Fermat's Principle | p. 2 |
| Reflection and Refraction | p. 3 |
| Ray Propagation in an Inhomogeneous Medium: Ray Equation | p. 6 |
| Matrix Methods in Paraxial Optics | p. 16 |
| The Ray Transfer Matrix | p. 17 |
| Illustrative examples | p. 25 |
| Cardinal points of an optical system | p. 27 |
| Reflection Matrix and Optical Resonators | p. 32 |
| Ray Optics using MATLAB | p. 37 |
| Wave Propagation and Wave Optics | |
| Maxwell's Equations: A Review | p. 46 |
| Linear Wave Propagation | p. 50 |
| Traveling-wave solutions | p. 50 |
| Maxwell's equations in phasor domain: Intrinsic impedance, the Poynting vector, and polarization | p. 55 |
| Electromagnetic waves at a boundary and Fresnel's equations | p. 60 |
| Wave Optics | p. 73 |
| Fourier transform and convolution | p. 74 |
| Spatial frequency transfer function and spatial impulse response of propagation | p. 75 |
| Examples of Fresnel diffraction | p. 79 |
| Fraunhofer diffraction | p. 80 |
| Fourier transforming property of ideal lenses | p. 83 |
| Resonators and Gaussian beams | p. 86 |
| Gaussian Beam Optics and MATLAB Examples | p. 97 |
| q-transformation of Gaussian beams | p. 99 |
| MATLAB example: propagation of a Gaussian beam | p. 102 |
| Beam Propagation in Inhomogeneous Media | |
| Wave Propagation in a Linear Inhomogeneous Medium | p. 111 |
| Optical Propagation in Square-Law Media | p. 112 |
| The Paraxial Wave Equation | p. 119 |
| The Split-Step Beam Propagation Method | p. 121 |
| MATLAB Examples Using the Split-Step Beam Propagation Method | p. 124 |
| Beam Propagation in Nonlinear Media: The Kerr Media | p. 134 |
| Spadal soliton | p. 136 |
| Self-focusing and self-defocusing | p. 139 |
| Acousto-Optics | |
| Qualitative Description and Heuristic Background | p. 152 |
| The Acousto-optic Effect: General Formalism | p. 158 |
| Raman-Nath Equations | p. 161 |
| Contemporary Approach | p. 164 |
| Raman-Nath Regime | p. 165 |
| Bragg Regime | p. 166 |
| Numerical Examples | p. 172 |
| Modern Applications of the Acousto-Optic Effect | p. 178 |
| Intensity modulation of a laser beam | p. 178 |
| Light beam deflector and spectrum analyzer | p. 181 |
| Demodulation of frequency modulated (FM) signals | p. 182 |
| Bistable switching | p. 184 |
| Acousto-optic spatial filtering | p. 188 |
| Acousto-optic heterodyning | p. 196 |
| Electro-Optics | |
| The Dielectric Tensor | p. 205 |
| Plane-Wave Propagation in Uniaxial Crystals; Birefringence | p. 210 |
| Applications of Birefringence: Wave Plates | p. 217 |
| The Index Ellipsoid | p. 219 |
| Electro-Optic Effect in Uniaxial Crystals | p. 223 |
| Some Applications of the Electro-Optic Effect equations | p. 227 |
| Intensity modulation | p. 227 |
| Phase modulation | p. 236 |
| Index | p. 241 |
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