PHYS 3038 - Optics

Course last offered 

 :   

Fall 2018/19

Instructor(s)

 :

DU Shengwang

No. of credits

 :

3



Teaching Pattern

  • Duration of course: about 13 weeks

  • Lecture hour(s) per week: 3

 

Content

  • Ray tracing
  • Matrix optics
  • Wave optics
  • Superposition of waves and interference
  • Coherence
  • Fresnel and Fraunhofer diffraction
  • Polarisation
  • Fourier optics
  • Holography
  • Phase and group velocity
  • Material dispersion
  • Propagation of Gaussian beams

 

Remarks

  • Exclusion: ELEC 4610