Waves, Optics, and Optical Technology

This course is an introduction to the basic properties of waves and light, with applications to optical technology. Development of wave and particle models for light. Interactions between light and matter. Reflection, refraction, interference, and diffraction. Devices and applications, including lasers and other light sources, detectors, lenses, thin films, gratings, interferometers, polarizers, phase retarders, fiber optics, non-linear crystals, and electro-optical technologies.

Prerequisites: Physics 235 or Physics 222, and Mathematics 162.