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
