OPTICS

ECE 434

Introduction to ray optics, physical optics and interference, applications of Fourier optics, absorption, dispersion, and polarization of light. Light sources, including lasers (gas, solid state, and semiconductor), modulation and detection of light.

PHYSICS 248

Continuation ofPHYSICS 247. Electromagnetism, circuits, optics, additional topics in modern physics; with computation.

PHYSICS 625

Optical methods in research and technology. Reflection, refraction, absorption, scattering. Imaging. Sources and sensors. Schlieren methods. Interferometry. Instrumental spectroscopy. Fourier optics, image processing, holography. Laser technology, Gaussian beams, nonlinear optics.

ECE 747

Optics/photonics at nanometer and micrometer length scales, including EM waves in dielectrics and metals, computational electromagnetics, waveguides and waveguide coupling, optical resonators, basic nanofabrication techniques, thin-film interference, surface-plasmon polaritons, localized surface-plasmon resonances, applications of plasmonics, super-resolution imaging, photonic crystals, composite materials and metamaterials, metasurfaces. Knowledge of Maxwell's equation and basic ray/wave optics, as would typically be obtained from junior-level or higher electromagnetics or optics courses [such asE C E 320orE C E 434], is strongly encouraged.

PHYSICS 104

Continuation ofPHYSICS 103. Principles of electricity and magnetism, light, optics, and modern physics, with applications to a number of different fields. Not recommended for students in the physical sciences and engineering.