'This excellent, perspicuous textbook, based on Fourier and statistical optics, details the derivations of the equations used to mathematize the physics of optical microscopy.' Barry R. Masters, Optics & Photonics News
1. Introduction; 2. Monochromatic wave propagation; 3. Monochromatic field propagation through lens; 4. Intensity propagation; 5. 3D imaging; 6. Radiometry; 7. Intensity fluctuations; 8. Detection noise; 9. Absorption and scattering; 10. Widefield microscopy; 11. Interference microscopy; 12. Optical coherence tomography; 13. Fluorescence; 14. Confocal microscopy; 15. Structured illumination microscopy; 16. Multiphoton microscopy; 17. Multiharmonic microscopy; 18. Pump-probe microscopy; 19. Superresolution; 20. Imaging in scattering media; Appendix A. Properties of Fourier transforms; Appendix B. Miscellaneous math; Appendix C. Jones matrix description of polarization.