Course Number: Phys 4960 Cross-listed with EE 4960
Course Name: Modern Optics
Credits: 3 Cr
Instructor:
PreReq: Credit or enrollment in PHYS 3220, PHYS 3650 and PHYS 4800
Course Description
Provides a review of wave and electromagnetic theory. Typically offered in the Fall. Topics will be selected from:
- Reflection and refraction
- Interference
- Geometrical optics
- Fourier analysis
- Dispersion
- Coherence
- Fraunhofer and Fresnel diffraction
- Holography
- Quantum optics
- Nonlinear optics.