 | Principles of Optics: Electromagnetic Theory of Propagation, Interference and Diffraction of Light (7th Edition) by Max Born
Buy new: $66.15 / Used from: $58.99 The Ultimate Optics Classic
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 | Optics (4th Edition) by Eugene Hecht
Buy new: $123.11 / Used from: $91.67 A Great Introduction to Optics
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 | Introduction to Modern Optics by Grant R. Fowles
Buy new: $11.53 / Used from: $6.10 An Inexpensive, but Classic Optics Primer
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 | Fundamentals of Photonics (Wiley Series in Pure and Applied Optics) by Bahaa E. A. Saleh
Buy new: $111.23 / Used from: $53.91 A comprehensive introduction to the field. Newly updated after 16 years
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 | Introduction to Fourier Optics by Joseph W. Goodman
Buy new: $78.80 / Used from: $72.16 The standard text for Fourier Optics
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 | Linear Systems, Fourier Transforms, and Optics (Wiley Series in Pure and Applied Optics) by Jack D. Gaskill
Buy new: $178.67 / Used from: $74.99 An expensive text, but teaches you the math for Fourier Optics
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 | Statistical Optics (Wiley Classics Library) by Joseph W. Goodman
Buy new: $95.50 / Used from: $61.88 Another classic by Goodman
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 | Photonics: Optical Electronics in Modern Communications (The Oxford Series in Electrical and Computer Engineering) by Amnon Yariv
Buy new: $103.23 / Used from: $59.95 The physics underlying optical communications
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 | Optical Coherence and Quantum Optics by Leonard Mandel
Buy new: $77.60 / Used from: $71.00 A comprehensive text on Quantum Optics, starting with the basics. The text also covers coherence theory prior to discussing Quantum Optics.
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 | Quantum Theory of the Optical and Electronic Properties of Semiconductors, Fourth Edition by Hartmut Haug
Buy new: $58.00 / Used from: $54.97 A good text on solid-state optics
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 | Lasers by A. E. Siegman
Buy new: $75.16 / Used from: $58.50 Perhaps the most comprehensive treatment of laser behavior based on classical physics
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 | Lasers (Wiley Series in Pure and Applied Optics) by Peter W. Milonni
Buy new: $145.84 / Used from: $124.00 A quantum mechanical treatment of laser behavior that is, however, not as broad in scope as Siegman
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 | Nonlinear Optics, Third Edition by Robert W. Boyd
Buy new: $59.97 / Used from: $44.88 The standard text for Non-Linear Optics
(newly revised)
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 | Classical Electrodynamics Third Edition by John David Jackson
Buy new: $77.53 / Used from: $59.95 Finally, you cannot know optics without knowing electrodynamics
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 | Photons and Atoms: Introduction to Quantum Electrodynamics (Wiley Professional) by Claude Cohen-Tannoudji
Buy new: $98.33 / Used from: $50.00 A comprehensive text on QED by a Nobel laureate.
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