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    Optics

    - Fall Semester 2019 -

    Text books:
    Optics, 5th Edition, E. Hecht, Pearson
    (Optics, 4th Edition, E. Hecht, Addison Wesley)

    Evaluation:
    Homework & Attendance (20%), 2x Quiz (20%) (or Mid-term (40%)),
    Final Exam (40%)

    Fabian Rotermund (이상민)


    (E6-6, #304, Tel. 2518)
    Optics: the branch of physics that studies the behavior and properties of light,
    including its interactions with matter and the construction of instruments that use
    or detect it. (wikipedia)
    The Nobel Prize in Physics since 2000

    2018 Inventions in laser physics


    2017 LIGO detector and gravitational waves
    2016 Topological phase transitions and topological phases
    2015 Neutrino oscillations
    2014 Blue light-emitting diodes
    2013 Higg’s boson
    2012 Methods for individual quantum systems
    2011 Accelerating expansion of the Universe
    2010 Two dimensional material graphene
    2009 Optical fiber and CCD sensor
    2008 Spontaneous symmetry breaking in subatomic physics
    2007 Giant magnetoresistance
    2006 Cosmic microwave background radiation
    2005 Quantum optics and laser-based precision spectroscopy
    2004 Theory of strong interaction
    2003 Superconductors and superfluids
    2002 Detection of cosmic neutrinos
    2001 Bose-Einstein condensation Since 2000, ~1/3 of the Nobel prize
    2000 Semiconductor heterostructures for Optics & Atomic Physics
    Topics to be covered:
    1. A Brief History

    2. Wave Motion
    (harmonic waves, phase and phase velocity, wave equation, different forms of waves etc.)

    3. Electromagnetic Theory, Photons and Light


    (electromagnetic waves, light in bulk matters etc.)

    4. The Propagation of Light (scattering, reflection, refraction etc.)

    5. Geometrical Optics (diverse optical components)

    6. The Superposition of Light/Waves


    (addition of waves, anharmonic waves, nonperiodic waves)

    7. Polarization
    (polarized light, dichroism, birefringence, polarizers, retarders etc.)

    8. Interference
    (conditions for interference, interferometers, applications)

    9. Diffraction (Fraunhofer diffraction, Fresnel diffraction etc.)

    10. Fourier Optics (Fourier transform, applications)

    11. Modern optics (lasers, nonlinear optics, THz photonics)


    1. Brief History
    What is Light?
    1.2 In the Beginning (Antiquity)
    - Fire, Light

    - Mirror
    - Lens

    1.3 From the 17th Century


    - Telescope
    - Microscope

    - First measurement of speed of light

    1.4 The 19th Century


    - Young’s experiment

    - Fresnel

    - Measurement of speed of the light in the Lab. (Fizeau)

    - M. Faraday and J. C. Maxwell

    - Effect of aether; Michelson and Morley


    1.5 Twentieth Century
    - A. Einstein and Theory of Relativity

    - M. Planck and Quantum Mechanics….

    - Duality: Particle and Wave

    - Fourier analysis

    - Lasers and Fiber Optics

    1.5 At present
    - State-of-the-art lasers
    - Single Photon sources and Quantum Optics

    - Nanophotonics

    - Attosecond physics

    - Other advanced optical technologies

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