Orders of Magnitude in Optics -- Electromagnetic Waves -- Geometrical Optics -- Polarized Light—Laws of Reflection -- Birefringence -- Interference -- Diffraction -- Index of Refraction -- Lasers -- Nonlinear Optics -- Raman-Brillouin-Rayleigh Diffusion -- Guided Optics -- Fourier Analysis and Fourier Transform.Since the discovery of the laser in 1960 and optical fibers in 1970, optics has un…