PHYS 3038 - Optics

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