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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. Course will be run in parallel to the Phys 415 course, sharing the same lecture hours. There will be an additional term project requirement for the students of Phys 515.
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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Fourier analysis and linear systems theory | Guenther, 6 |
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Coherence | Pedrotti, 12 |
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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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Lasers | My notes and Guenther, 5 |
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Fiber optics and optical communications | My notes |
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Nonlinear optics | My notes; Guenther, 15 |