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Light propagates inside the fibre, which is made of glass which has a higher refractive index than the air outside. Since the fibre is very thin, the light beam inside strikes the interface at a large angle of incidence, large enough that it is reflected back into the glass and is not lost outside. Thus fibres can guide light beams in any
With the coming of the Scientific Revolution in the 16th and 17th centuries, optics, in the shape of telescopes and microscopes, provided the means to study the universe from the very distant to the very small. Newton introduced a scientific study also of the nature of light itself.
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Light: Reflection and Refraction Key Points • The Ray Model of Light • Reflection and Mirrors • Refraction, Snell’s Law • Total internal Reflection References SFU Ed: 32-1,2,3,4,5,6,7. 6th Ed: 23-1,2,3,4,5,6.
Physics of Light and Optics is a free high-quality textbook for an advanced undergraduate optics course for physics majors.
This book provides an introduction to the eld of optics from a physics perspective. It focuses primarily on the wave and ray descriptions of light, but also includes a brief intro-duction to the quantum description of light. Topics covered include re ection and trans-
Light The nature of light has fascinated philosophers, as well as ordinary people, for thousands of years. The light seemed something ordinary and at the same time something very mysterious, magical. According to today’s criteria, a truly scienti c approach to the nature of light was initiated about 350 years
