| Reading Schedule |
Online material |
Labs |
Homework, Lab |
due date |
|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 21-Jan | Introduction | ||||
| 22-Jan | EM waves in vacuum | ||||
| 27-Jan | EM waves in lih materials | ||||
| 29-Jan | Reflection and refraction | Jan 30 | H1, Lab 1 | 3-Feb | |
| 3-Feb | Spherical interfaces | ||||
| 5-Feb | Ray tracing using matrices | Feb 6 | H2, Lab 2 | 10-Feb | |
| 10-Feb | Matrix methods for lenses | ||||
| 12-Feb | Matrix methods for mirrors | Feb 13 | H3, Lab 3 | 17-Feb | |
| 17-Feb | Aberrations | ||||
| 19-Feb | Review | Feb 20 | H4, Lab 4, Extra Credit 1 | 24-Feb | |
| 24-Feb | Stops and Apertures | ||||
| 26-Feb | Sources and detectors | Feb 27 | H5, Lab 5 | 3-Mar | |
| 3-Mar | Diffraction | ||||
| 5-Mar | Interference | Mar 6 | H6, Lab 6 | 10-Mar | |
| 10-Mar | Coherence | ||||
| 12-Mar | Lasers | Mar 13 | H7, Lab 7, Extra Credit 2 | 24-Mar | |
| 24-Mar | Fourier optics | ||||
| 26-Mar | Optical processing | Mar 27 | Extra Credit 3 | 31-Mar | |
| 31-Mar | Transfer function | ||||
| 2-Apr | Holography | Apr 3 | H8, Lab 8, Make-up labs | 7-Apr | |
| 7-Apr | Polarization | ||||
| 9-Apr | Anisotropic Materials | 10-Apr | H9, Lab 9 | 14-Apr | |
| 14-Apr | Nonlinear optics | ||||
| 16-Apr | Optical tweezers | H10 | 21-Apr | ||
| 21-Apr | Optical wave guides | ||||
| 23-Apr | Fiber-optics communication | H11 | 28-Apr | ||