OVERVIEW: OPTICS by Professor Ghatak is a classic text designed to provide a comprehensive account of important topics in this exciting fi¬eld. The book aims to meet the requirements of a course on Optics for undergraduate students of Science and Engineering. This brand new multi-colour edition comes with a number of careful revisions in the text and colourful illustrations, thus making it even more exciting and reader friendly KEY FEATURES • A new introductory PROLOGUE detailing importance of study of light after the advent of lasers • A new chapter on BOHR THEORY OF THE ATOM with applications of spectroscopy • Comprehensive coverage of important topics like Geometrical Optics, Vibrations & Waves, Polarization, Interference, Diffraction, Lasers and Holography • Updated content on Electromagnetic Wave Propagation, Anisotropic Media, Fiber Optics and Lasers • Comprehensive simple derivation of the famous equation E = mc2 and Special Theory of Relativity • Quantum Theory including the EPR Paradox & Entanglement