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Final Exam: Thursday, December 16, 3:00-5:00 Comprehensive (Chapters 2-13) Closed Book, Closed Notes, One CribSheet (two-sided) Allowed |
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PHOTONICS
Instructor: Dr. Kent Morrison
Office: Physics & Astronomy Rm. 1115 (North Wing)
Phone: 277-0433
E-mail: lkm@unm.edu
To see me in my office, please make an appointment (email is best).
Class meeting times: Tuesday and Thursday, 3:30- 4:45; Physics and Astronomy Building, Room 5
Textbook: Optics by Hecht (4th Edition). The course will cover Chapters 2-13, although we will not cover all the material in some chapters. I will also suggest supplemental material during the course.
Teaching Assistant: Chengyong Feng ( von@unm.edu )
Pre-requisites: Calculus, Knowledge of Differential Equations, Complex Algebra, (Phys 160 and 161).
Assignments: Homework problem sets will be assigned on a regular basis throughout the semester, most likely one set per week. The overall HW grade will count as 20% of the final. Click here to go to the assignments page.
Tests: There will be two in-class, closed-book tests (each counting 25% of final grade) at regular intervals during the semester and a comprehensive final exam (30% of final grade) at the end.
Tentative Test Dates (subject to change): September 30th and November 11th. Last day to drop the course without Dean’s signature is November 12. The final exam is currently scheduled for Tuesday, December 16, 3:00-5:00.
Grading: The final grade is weighted
as follows:
Midterms: 25% each (50% total)
Final: 30%
Homework: 20%
Syllabus
1- Introduction (historical overview)
2- Waves (properties of harmonic waves, complex representation,
superposition,..)
3- Electromagnetic Theory of Light (basic laws, energy and
momentum, photons, radiation spectrum, light-matter interaction, dispersion,
..)
4- Propagation of Light (Fermat’s principle, Fresnel laws of reflection and
refraction, Maxwell’s
equations, ..)
5- Geometric Optics (spherical surfaces, thin lenses, mirrors,
imaging, prisms, fiberoptics, ray tracing, aberrations..)
6- Optical Systems (human eye, camera, telescopes,
microscopes,..)
7- Wave Optics (superposition, wave packets, pulses, group
velocity ..)
8- Polarization of Light (polarizers, birefringence,
waveplates, ..)
9- Interference (principles, interferometers, single and
multilayer films,..)
10- Diffraction (Fraunhofer diffraction, Fresnel diffraction,
implications for imaging systems..)
11- Fourier Optics
12-
Coherence
Theory
13- Lasers