光学工程讲义18-Coupling of Light.pptVIP

LIGHT COUPLING Prof John Watson EG40GC Optical Engineering Lecture Notes Ray Optics Earlier we saw that to describe the behaviour of light it was necessary to invoke two distinct models, namely, the wave and photon models. When designing optical systems, we can simplify our approach: we can neglect the photon character of light consider direction of propagation of the lightwave through system The direction of travel of an optical wave is defined in terms of straight lines, known as rays, which propagate at right angles to the wavefront. the wavefront represents the peaks of the wave oscil