PRELIMINARY TABLE OF CONTENTS

Preface

Chapter I Basic electromagnetics

1.1 Introduction

1.2 Maxwell's equations

1.3 Waves

1.4 Phase velocity

1.5 Dispersion

1.6 Pulses and Group velocity

1.7 Polarization

1.8 Jones matrices, Stokes parameters and the Poincarè sphere

1.9 Optically anisotropic media

1.9.1 Uniaxial crystals

1.10 Chirality

1.11 Gaussian beams

Chapter II Evanescent Waves

2.1 Introduction

2.2 Reflection and refraction

2.2.1 The reflection and refraction Cartesio-Snell law

2.2.2 Extension to surfaces with a phase gradient

2.2.3 Fresnel coefficients

2.2.3.1 Reflection and refraction for n1

2.2.3.2 The case n1>n2

2.3 Evanescent waves

2.4 Energy transport of evanescent waves

2.5 Tunnelling effect

2.6 Reflection and refraction in the presence of absorption

2.7 Reflection and refraction with materials with negative refractive index

2.8 X-Ray Evanescent Waves