Instructor: F. Omer Ilday (www)

Office: ARL-Z03 (phone: 1076x)
Office Hours: By appointment only

Lectures: Tu 13:40 - 15:30 (SAZ-18) and Th 15:40-17:30 (SAZ-18)
Lab hours: Tu 10:40 - 12:30, Th 14:00 - 17:00
Lab TA: Askin Kocabas
TA for lectures/grading: Levent Budunoglu

List of Lab Experiments (pdf)

Grading (tentative)
Homeworks/quizes
 		%15
Lab work
 		%20
Midterm I
 %20
Midterm II
 		%20
Final
 		%25

Textbook (required):
Introduction to Optics, F. L. Pedrotti, L. S. Pedrotti
Supplementary texts (optional):
Optics, E. Hecht,
Laser Electronics, J. T. Verdeyen,
Modern Optics, G. R. Fowles
Modern Optics, R. D. Guenther

Midterm Exam I: Problems (download) - Solutions (download)
Midterm Exam II: Problems (download) - Solutions (download) - Grading key (download)
December 9, 2006, Saturday at 17:00 in room SAZ-18
(The topics will include coherence, polarization, ray optics, cavities and lasers).
Final Exam: December 28, 2006, Thursday at 12:30 in room SAZ03
(The exam includes all topics covered.)

 
 		Topic
 		Main Text Reference
 		Homework Solutions
 Lectures
1
 		Introduction: Overview, theoretical frameworks relevant to optics, EM spectrum (overview, EM spectrum)
 		Hecht, 3
 		none
 none
 #1
2
 		Photon and wave pictures:
Blackbody radiation, photoelectric effect, Maxwell's equations, EM waves (intro to waves, complex numbers refresher)
 		instructor's notes, Guenther, 1, 2
Pedrotti, 8, 9
 		#1
 #1
 #2
3
 		Huygen's principle, EM waves, Fourier transforms Guenther, 6, 9
 		#2 #2
 #3
4
 		Interference and interferometry
 Pedrotti, 10, 11
 		#3 #3
 #4
5
 		Diffraction I: Far-field (Fraunhofer) diffraction (review lecture for the exam)
 		Pedrotti, 16
 		#4
 #4
 #5
6
 		Diffraction II: Near-field (Fresnel) diffraction, covered briefly
 Pedrotti, 18
 		#5
 trivial
 #6
7
 		Coherence
 Pedrotti, 12
 		#6 #6
 #7
8
 		Polarization (supplementary slides) Pedrotti, 14
 		#7
 #7
 #8
9
 		Geometrical optics and paraxial ray optics with ABCD matrices (supplementary slides)
 		Guenther 5, Verdeyen, 2
 		included in #8
#9
10
 		Basic optical cavities and resonators with ABCD matrices
 		Verdeyen, 5, 6
 		#8
#10
11
 		Introduction to lasers
 		Pedrotti, 21
 		included in #9
#11
12
 		Fiber optics and telecommunications
 		Pedrotti, 24
 		included in #9
#12
13
 		Modulation of photons by electrons and other photons:
Electro-optic modulation and nonlinear optics
 		Pedrotti, 26
 		#9 soon
#13, #14

Each topic takes approximately 1 week to cover, with some exceptions to be made.


Last updated: December 17, 2006.

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