Non-technical books

O. Darrigol, A History of Optics from Greek Antiquity to the Nineteenth Century, 2012 (Oxford: Oxford University Press).

H. E. Edgerton and J. R. Killian, Moments of Vision: The Stroboscopic Revolution in Photography, 1979 (Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press).

J. P. Harbison and R. E. Nahory, Lasers: Harnessing the Atom’s Light,1997 (New York: Scientific American Library, W. H. Freeman& Co).

J. Hecht, City of Light: The Story of Fiber Optics, 2004 (New York:Oxford University Press).

J. Hecht, Beam: The Race to Make the Laser, 2005 (Oxford: Oxford University Press).

M. Kemp, The Science of Art: Optical Themes in Western Art from Brunelleschi to Seurat, 1992 (New Haven: Yale University Press).

A. Zajonc, Catching the Light, 1993 (Oxford: Oxford University Press).Specialist texts

M. Bass et al., Handbook of Optics, 2000 (New York: McGraw-Hill).

M. Born and E. Wolf, Principles of Optics, 7th ed., 1999 (Cambridge:Cambridge University Press).

R. W. Boyd, Nonlinear Optics, 3rd ed., 2004 (New York: Academic Press).

J. W. Goodman, Statistical Optics, 2000 (New York: Wiley Interscience).

J. W. Goodman, Introduction to Fourier Optics, 2004 (New York:Roberts & Co.).

H. Hariharan, Basics of Interferometry, 2nd ed., 2003 (New York:Academic Press).

S. Haroche and J.-M. Raimond, Exploring the Quantum: Atoms,Cavities and Photons, 2006 (Oxford: Oxford University Press).

E. Hecht, Optics, 4th ed., 2001 (Reading, MA: Addison Wesley).

S. M. Hooker and C. Webb, Laser Physics, 2010 (Oxford: Oxford University Press).

J. Mertz, Introduction to Optical Microscopy, 2010 (New York:Roberts & Co.).

L. Novotny and B. Hecht, Principles of Nano-optics, 2nd ed., 2012(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press).

V. Vedral, Introduction to Quantum Information Science, 2006(Oxford: Oxford University Press).

W. Welford, Optics, 3rd ed., 1988 (Oxford: Oxford University Press).