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Office: ARL-Z03 (phone: 1076x)
Office Hours: To be announced
Lectures: Tu 9:40 - 11:30
(SAZ-19) and Th 10:40 - 11:30 (SAZ-19) and F 9:40 - 10:30 (to be announced)
Lab hours: To be determined during first week of classes
Lab TA: Levent Budunoglu (email budun@fen.bilkent.edu.tr)
Course Info:
The course builds upon the core topics of optics, such as electromagnetic theory of light, reflection and refraction, interference, coherence, diffraction, geometrical optics. No prior knowledge of optics is necessary. In the latter part, selected modern topics such as fiber optics, optical communications, lasers, electro-optic modulation and nonlinear optics will bediscussed. Advanced optics class shares 3 of its lecture hours with Phys 415: Optics.
Differences from Phys 415: In the fourth hour, which is not shared with Phys 415, we will move faster and we will discuss advanced topics beyond the scope of Phys 415. During some weeks, we will have guest speakers (list of speakers to be confirmed during the first week of classes), who will be experts in the special area to be discussed during that or the previous week. Phys 515 does not have a lab section, but efforts are underway to arrange computer lab sessions based on state-of-the-art optical design software. See the table below for a list of the core subjects to be discussed this year (common with Phys 415).
Advanced topics not shared with Phys 415 are likely to include the following: advanced diffraction theory, multilayer dielectric coatings (basis of modern mirrors and filters), optical resonators with Gaussian beams, polarization calculus. There will be approximately 8 homework assignments.
Textbook
(required):
Modern Optics, R. D. Guenther (I have checked that the bookstore will have it on shelf by ~17 September)
Supplementary texts (optional):
Optics, E. Hecht,
Laser
Electronics, J. T. Verdeyen,
Introduction to Optics, Pedrotti, Pedrotti
Practice Exam
Exam questions (Part I, Part II), Exam solutions
Midterm Exam
Exam questions, solutions
Final Exam
Exam questions, solutions
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Topic |
Main Text Reference |
Homework | Solutions |
Lectures |
| 1 |
Introduction to optics: various theoretical formulations in use | My notes |
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| 2 |
Photon and wave nature of light |
Guenther, 1 |
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| 3 |
Electromagnetic theory | Guenther, 2 |
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| * | Propagation in a conducting medium | ||||
| * | Multilayer dielectric coatings | ||||
| 4 |
Laws of reflection and refraction, Fresnel formulae | Guenther, 3 |
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| 5 |
Polarization | ||||
| * | Anisotropy and matrix treatment of polarization | ||||
| 6 |
Interference and interferometry | Pedrotti, 10, 11 |
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| * | Fabry-Perot resonators and resolving power | ||||
| * | Multilayer dielectric coatings | ||||
| 7 |
Fourier analysis and linear systems theory | Guenther, 6 |
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| 8 |
Coherence | Pedrotti, 12 |
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| * | Dispersion | ||||
| 9 |
Huygen's principle and diffraction | Guenter, 9 |
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| * | Gaussian beams | ||||
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Far-field or Fraunhofer diffraction | Pedrotti, 16 |
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| 11 |
Geometrical or ray optics | Verdeyen, 2; Guenther 5 |
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| * | Optical resonators | ||||
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Lasers | My notes and Guenther, 5 |
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| 13 |
Fiber optics and optical communications | My notes |
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Nonlinear optics | My notes; Guenther, 15 |
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