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Office: SA-224 (phone: 1076x)
Office Hours: By appointment
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Lab TA: Levent Budunoglu (email budun@fen.bilkent.edu.tr)
List of Lab Experiments (pdf)
Detailed course information will be available from Moodle.
Grading (very tentative)
Homeworks/quizes |
%15 |
Lab work |
%20 |
Midterm |
%20 |
Final |
%25 |
Textbooks:
Modern Optics, R. D. Guenther
Optics, E. Hecht,
Laser
Electronics, J. T. Verdeyen,
Introduction to Optics, Pedrotti, Pedrotti
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Topic |
Main Text Reference |
Homework | Solutions |
Lectures |
| 1 |
Intro. to optics: relation of quantum optics, electromagnetic optics, wave optics and ray optics | My notes |
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| 2 |
Photon nature of light: blackbody radiation and photoelectric effect |
Guenther, 1 |
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| 3 |
Electromagnetic theory | Guenther, 2 |
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| 4 |
Laws of reflection and refraction, Fresnel formulae | Guenther, 3 |
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Polarization | ||||
| 6 | Interference and interferometry | Pedrotti, 10, 11 |
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| 7 |
Fourier analysis and linear systems theory | Guenther, 6 |
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Coherence | Pedrotti, 12 |
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| 9 |
Huygen's principle and diffraction | Guenter, 9 |
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Far-field or Fraunhofer diffraction | Pedrotti, 16 |
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Geometrical or ray optics | Verdeyen, 2; Guenther 5 |
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| 12 |
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 |