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Calendar

This calendar provides the course's lecture topics, assignments, and information on the in-class demonstrations.

WEEK # DAY 1 DAY 2 DAY 3 DAY 4 DAY 5
1         Course Overview,
Maxwell's Equations,
Wave Equation
2 Polarization States,
Geometric Optics (Lenses and Mirrors),
Ray-Matrix Methods,
Magic Sheet,
Linear Polarizer
Reflection, Total Internal Reflection,
TE and TM waves,
Brewster's Angle,
PS#1 Issued
Lab #1:
Laser, Eye, and High-Voltage Safety,
Polarization and Reflection Experiments
3 Two-beam Interferometry,
Michelson and Mach Zhender Interferometers
Multiple Beam Interferometry,
Oil Film on Water, and Soap Bubble Demos
PS#2 Issued
Lab #2:
Interferometry
4 Fresnel and Fraunhofer Diffraction, Spatial Frequency
Diffraction examples:
Slits, Apertures, Double slit,
Diffraction Demos
PS#3 Issued
5 Holography as an Example of Diffraction, Recording Media

Transmission and Reflection Holography,
Demo of  Various Transmission and Reflection Holograms

Lab #3:
Diffraction from Various Objects, Viewing and Fabricating Various Holograms
6 Propagation in Anisotropic Materials, Electro-optic Light Modulation
PS#4 Issued

Acousto-Optic Modulation,
Raman-Nath and Bragg modulators

Lab #4:
EO and AO modulators
7 Quiz 1
8 Lasers:
Spontaneous and Stimulated Emission,
Gain
PS#5 Issued
Lasers:
Oscillation Frequencies,
Output Power,
Scanning F.P. Demo
9 Lasers:
Cavity Stability,
Transverse Modes
Lasers:
Specific Lasers (Semiconductor, NdYAG, He-Ne, Argon-ion),
Laser Demos
Lab #5:
Lasers
10 Optical Waveguides,
Numerical Aperture,
TE and TM Modes,
Ray optics methods
Types of Dispersion,
Wave-Optics Analysis
11 Fibers:
Step index,
Graded index,
Dispersion Compensation,
PS#6 Issued
Fibers:
Modern fiber-optic Telecom Systems,
WDM
Lab #6:
Fiber-optics
12 Fourier Optics:
Transforming Properties of Lenses
Final Projects Begin

Classical Two Lens Processor,
Demo of CTLP,
PS#7 Issued

13 Quiz 2
14 Detectors:
Thermal and Quantum Types, NEP, D, D*,
Specific Detector Types
Nonlinear Optics,
SHG Demo
15 LAST CLASS:
Final Projects Due,
Final Projects Presentation
Lab Clean-up Day

Bold Text = Demonstration