Principles of Optics is one of the classic science books of the twentieth century, and probably the most influential book in optics published in the past forty years. This edition has been thoroughly revised and updated, with new material covering the CAT scan, interference with broad-band light and the so-called Rayleigh-Sommerfeld diffraction theory. This edition also details scattering from inhomogeneous media and presents an account of the principles of diffraction tomography to which Emil Wolf has made a basic contribution. Several new appendices are also included. This new edition will be invaluable to advanced undergraduates, graduate students and researchers working in most areas of optics.\"...a classic book that provides a complete picture of our knowledge of optics as a whole...an invaluable reference for advanced undergraduates, graduate students, and researchers in any area of optics.\"“Principles of Optics” is one of the classic science books of the twentieth century, and probably the most influential book on optics written in the last 50 years. It is a self-contained comprehenxive account of classical optics written clearly and succintly. This classic text presents optics deductively as a system based on Maxwell's equations. It deals with those optical phenomena that can be described with the help of a continuous distribution of matter, and provides an overview of optics as a whole This edition has been thoroughly revised and updated with new material covering the CAT scan, interference with broad-band light, and the Rayleigh-Sommerfeld diffraction theory.