The 800-page book authored by Professor Theodore Norris and titled “ Classical Light” is intended for a graduate-level course in electrical and computer engineering. In addition to presenting the electromagnetic principles that form the basis for the operation of optical devices and systems, the book includes many laser-generated images that were generated at Professor Norris’s laboratory. 

Theodore B. Norris is the Gérard A. Mourou Collegiate Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Michigan. He received his B.A. in Physics from Oberlin College in 1982, and his PhD in Physics from the University of Rochester in 1989, working in the laboratory of Gérard Mourou. He joined the University of Michigan as an Assistant Research Scientist in 1990, and joined the EECS faculty in 1992. His research interests include application of short-pulse lasers to the physics of semiconductor nanostructures, graphene and other 2D electronic systems, nonlinear and quantum nanophotonics, THz generation and measurement, and novel methods for biological imaging and in vivo sensing. He is a Fellow of the Optical Society of America and of the American Physical Society.