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What is Photonics?
Photonics deals with Generation, Propagation, Manipulation and Detection of (usually coherent) light waves. |
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Topics Covered
1. Ray Optics (Geometrical Optics): Fermat's Principle, Paraxial and Matrix Optics.
2. Scalar Wave Optics (Interference & Gaussian Beams): Scalar wave equation, Helmholtz equation, Superposition of Waves, Interferometers, Paraxial Wave Equation, Gaussian Beam Solution, ABCD Law, and Hermite-Gaussian Beams.
3. Electromagnetic Optics: Maxwell Equations in Vacuum and Dielectrics, Monochromatic Waves, Plane Waves, Polarization Ellipse, Jones Formalism, and Reflection and Refraction of Light from a Boundary.
4. Fabry-Perot Cavities: Planar Cavities, Damping, Finesse, Spherical-Mirror Cavities, Stable and Unstable Cavities.
5. Optical Thin Films: Reflection-Summation Model, Matrix Formalism, Optical Coating Design.
6. Photon Optics & Light-Material Interactions: The Photon and Photon Streams, Material Properties and Models, and Photons and Atoms.
7. Laser Physics: Light amplification, Pumping schemes, Gain coefficient, and Laser output (CW and Pulsed).
8. Electro-optics, Acousto-optics, and Nonlinear optics (if we have time) |
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References
• B. E. A. Saleh and M. C. Teich, Fundamentals of Photonics, 3rd ed., Wiley, 2019.
• G. R. Reider, Photonics: An Introduction, Springer, 2016.
• A. Yariv and P. Yeh, Photonics: Optical Electronics in Modern Communications, 6th ed.,Oxford Univ. Press, 2007.
• K. Iizuka, Elements of Photonics, vol. II, Wiley, 2002.
• E. Hecht, Optics, 5th ed., Pearson, 2017.
• J. T. Verdeyen, Laser Electronics, 3rd ed., Prentice Hall, 1995. |
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Evaluation
• Homework 10%
• Project/Seminar 15%
• Mid-term exam 35%
• Final exam 40% |
