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Light has, as we know today, a wave and a quantum aspect. The wave aspect dominates in the propagation of light, the quantum aspect dominates in absorption and emission. The theory covering the wave aspect is the classical theory of electromagnetic fields as elaborated by Maxwell. Its fundamentals are presented in this chapter.
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Lauterborn, W., Kurz, T. (2003). Fundamentals of Wave Optics. In: Coherent Optics. Advanced Texts in Physics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-05273-0_3
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