Academic
Year 2000/2001
Instructor:
W.H. McCutcheon
Credits:
3
Lecture
hrs/week: 2
Prerequisites:
one of Phys. 301, Phys. 354
Required
Text: Optics by Hecht, third edition,
pub. Addison Wesley
Physical optics, polarization, Fresnel equation, coherence, interference, diffraction, lasers, holography, Fourier optics.
Week
1: Optical path length, Fermat’s
principle, geometrical optics
Week
2: Thin lenses, thick lenses, thin lens combinations
Week
3: Matrix optics, aberrations
Week
4: Graded index optics, wave motion, plane waves, spherical waves
Week
5: Polarization, Stokes parameters,
Week
6: Methods of producing polarization,
Interference, Young’s experiment
Week
7: Michelson interferometer, Midterm test
Week
8: Newton’s rings, diffraction, array of
N coherent oscillators, single slit diffraction
Week
9: single slit diffraction, double slit diffraction, multiple slits
Week
10: Circular aperture, Rayleigh criteria, Fresnel diffraction
Week
11: Fresnel zone plate, circular aperture and obstacles
Week
12: Rectangular aperture, Cornu spiral, slit, straight edge, Fourier optics
Week
13: Fourier optics and transforms, convolutions, FTs in diffraction, Phase contrast,
discussion of final exam.
Problems
were assigned about every 3 lectures.
One
midterm was given.
Other
useful texts:
1.
Fundamentals
of Photonics by Saleh and Teich (Wiley)
2.
Modern
Optics by Guenther (Wiley)
3.
Introduction
to Modern Optics by Fowles (Dover)