Pedrottis' Introduction to Optics

Authors

• Rayf Shiell, Trent University, Peterborough, Ontario

  Since 2004 Rayf has passionately balanced both research and teaching at Trent University, Canada. His primary research is in optics, and ranges from probing matter using high-power laser beams to exploring the optics of the eye. He teaches a wide range of courses, and delights in uncovering and relaying the often-surprising connections between them. His love of good pedagogy has permeated not only this present text, with which he was very familiar, from many years of teaching, but all his work as a mentor and instructor, even extending to coaching the university rowing team. He is co-developer of the integrated testlet, an assessment tool that employs a scaffolded, answer-until-correct question structure, and which features in each chapter of this text. For his work in this area he was a co-recipient of Trent University's 2021 Award for Educational Leadership and Innovation.

• Iain McNab, McNab Group, Ontario, Canada

  Iain McNab is the former Dean of the Faculty of Applied Science and Technology at Sheridan College in Canada; he counts among his mentors Nobel Laureates Harold Kroto and John Polanyi. From 1992 until 2002 he was Physics faculty at the Department of Physics, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK, where he led the physics teaching laboratories and gained an international reputation for his work in spectroscopy. He has taught a wide range of courses across physics and engineering and has also been involved with educational research, particularly innovative methods such as the flipped classroom and web-based learning systems. Iain is a former Chairperson of the Spectroscopy Group of the Institute of Physics, and is currently a visiting Professor at Guangdong Technion Israel Institute of Technology, China.