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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
DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICS