PHYS 3038 - Optics

Course last offered : Fall 2022/23
Instructor(s) : Jingdi ZHANG
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