Includes Appendices and index

what is light?;
fermat's principle and its applications;
refraction and reflection by spherical surface;
the matrix method in paraxial optics;
aberrations;
simple harmonic motion, forced vibrations and origin of refractive index;
fourier series and applications;
group velocity and pulse dispersion;
wave propagation and the wave equation;
huygens' principle and its application;
superposition of waves;
two beam interference by division of wavefront;
interference by division of amplitude;
multiple beam interferometry;
coherence;
fraunhofer diffraction;
fresnel diffraction;
holoraphy;
polarization and double refraction;
electromagnetic waves;
reflection and refraction of electromagnetic waves;
the particle nature of radiation;
lasers: an introduction;
fiber optics;
introduction to speckle metrology