Description
\\ Spherical and planar waves; scalar diffraction theory; Fresnel and Fraunhofer diffraction and application to measurement; interference and interferometers; optical transfer functions; coherent optical systems and holography. Prerequisite: Physics with calculus (PHY 223)
Description
\\ Spherical and planar waves; scalar diffraction theory; Fresnel and Fraunhofer diffraction and application to measurement; interference and interferometers; optical transfer functions; coherent optical systems and holography. Prerequisite: Physics with calculus (PHY 223)
Course Outline
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- Fields
- Wave equation
- Plane waves
- Jones calculus
- Lab: Polarization
- Reflectance
- Boundary Conditions
- Fresnel Equations
- Metals, Semiconductors, Dielectrics
- Lab: Ellipsometry
- Interference I
- Grimaldi's Experiment
- Young's Experiment
- Spatial Coherence
Lab: Two Slit
- Interference II
- Fresnel \& Arago Law
- Amplitude Splitting
- Contrast
- Lab: Mach Zehnder Interferometer
- Two-Beam Interference
- Temporal Coherence
- Partial Coherence
- Fourier Transform Spectroscopy
- Lab: Michelson Interferometer
- Multiple Beam Interference
- Plane Parallel Plate
- Interference filters
- Thin Films
- Lab: Fabry-Perot Interferometer
- Diffraction
- Huygen's Principle
- Fresnel Diffraction
- Fraunhofer Diffraction
- Lab: Fresnel Diffraction
- Fourier Optics
- Linear systems
- Correlation
- Transfer functions
- Lab: Fourier Optics
- Coherence
- Partial Coherence
- Mutual Coherence
- van Cittert-Zernike
- Lab: Spatial Coherence
- Holography
- Holograms of point objects
- Bragg's law
- Recording and Reconstruction
- Lab: Holography