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Schedule

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Week Date Lecture Lab Homework
1
Monday
8/23/2021

Lecture 1

Introduction Slides

Geoemetrical Optics

   
Tuesday
8/24/2021
  No lab  
Wednesday
8/25/2021

Lecture 2 

Geoemetrical Optics (continued)

Spherical Interfaces

No lab  
Thursday
8/26/2021
  No lab

 

Friday
8/27/2021
     
2
Monday
8/30/2021

Lecture 3

Spherical Interfaces (continued)

Matrix Method

 

HW #1
Due Sep. 7 2:00PM

HW#1 Solutions

Tuesday
8/31/2021
  Lab #1  
Wednesday
9/1/2021

Lecture 4

Lens and Mirror

Lab #1  
Thursday
9/2/2021
  Lab #1

 

Friday
9/3/2021
     
3
Monday
9/6/2021
Labor Day – No classes
Tuesday
9/7/2021
  Lab #1, continued

HW #1 Due by 2PM

HW #2
Due Sep. 14 2:00PM

HW#2 Solutions

Wednesday
9/8/2021

Lecture 5

Optical Systems, Aberrations

Lab #1, continued  
Thursday
9/9/2021
  Lab #1, continued

 

Friday
9/10/2021
     
4
Monday
9/13/2021

Lecture 6

Review of Waves

 

HW #2 Due by 2PM

HW #3
Due Sep. 21 2:00PM

HW#3 Solutions

Tuesday
9/14/2021
  Lab #2  
Wednesday
9/15/2021

Lecture 7

Electromagnetic Waves

EM Energy

Lab #2

 

Thursday
9/16/2021
  Lab #2

 

Friday
9/17/2021
     
5
Monday
9/20/2021

Lecture 8

EM Energy (continued)

   
Tuesday
9/21/2021
  Lab #2, continued

HW #3 Due by 2PM

HW #4
Due Sep. 28 2:00PM

HW#4 Solutions

Wednesday
9/22/2021

Lecture 9

EM Momentum

Light in Matter

Lab #2, continued  
Thursday
9/23/2021
  Lab #2, continued

 

Friday
9/24/2021
     
6
Monday
9/27/2021

Lecture 10

Light in Matter (continued)

Fresnel Equations

   
Tuesday
9/28/2021
  Lab #3

HW #4 Due by 2PM

HW #5
Due Oct. 5 2:00PM

HW#5 Solutions

Wednesday
9/29/2021

Lecture 11

Fresnel Equations (continued)

Lab #3

 

Thursday
9/30/2021
  Lab #3  
Friday
10/1/2021
     
7
Monday
10/4/2021

Lecture 12

Fresnel Equations (continued)

Dispersion

   
Tuesday
10/5/2021
  Lab #3, continued

HW #5 Due by 2PM

HW #6
Due Oct. 12 2:00PM

HW#6 Solutions

Wednesday
10/6/2021

Lecture 13

Beating, Fourier Analysis

Lab #3, continued  
Thursday
10/7/2021
  Lab #3, continued

 

Friday
10/8/2021
     
8
Monday
10/11/2021

Lecture 14

Wave Packets

Polarization

   
Tuesday
10/12/2021
  No Lab

HW #6 Due by 2PM

No new HW

Wednesday
10/13/2021

Review before Midterm

No Lab

 

Thursday
10/14/2021
  No Lab  
Friday
10/15/2021
     
9
Monday
10/18/2021
Midterm exam
exam and solutions
Tuesday
10/19/2021
  Lab #4

HW #7
Due Oct. 26 2:00PM

HW#7 Solutions

Wednesday
10/20/2021

Lecture 15

Polarizers and Birefringence

Lab #4  
Thursday
10/21/2021
  Lab #4  
Friday
10/22/2021
     
10
Monday
10/25/2021

Lecture 16

Phase Shits, Jones Calculus

   
Tuesday
10/26/2021
  Lab #4, continued

HW #7 Due by 2PM

HW #8
Due Nov. 2 2:00PM

HW#8 Solutions

Wednesday
10/27/2021

Lecture 17

Partially Polarized Light

Interference

Lab #4, continued

 

Thursday
10/28/2021
  Lab #4, continued  
Friday
10/29/2021
     
11
Monday
11/1/2021

Lecture 18

Interferometry

   
Tuesday
11/2/2021
  Lab #5

HW #8 Due by 2PM

HW #9
Due Nov. 9 2:00PM

HW#9 Solutions

Wednesday
11/3/2021

Lecture 19

Multiple-Beam Interference

Lab #5

 

Thursday
11/4/2021
  Lab #5  
Friday
11/5/2021
     
12
Monday
11/8/2021

Lecture 20

Diffraction

   
Tuesday
11/9/2021
  Lab #5, continued

HW #9 Due by 2PM

HW #10
Due Nov. 16 2:00PM

HW#10 Solutions

Wednesday
11/10/2021

Lecture 21

Fresnel Zones

Lab #5, continued  
Thursday
11/11/2021
  Lab #5, continued

 

Friday
11/12/2021
     
13
Monday
11/15/2021

Lecture 22

Fresnel and Fraunhofer Diffractions

   
Tuesday
11/16/2021
  Makeup lab

HW #10 Due by 2PM

HW #11
Due Nov. 30 2:00PM

HW#11 Solutions

Wednesday
11/17/2021

Lecture 23

Fourier Methods in Diffraction

Makeup lab  
Thursday
11/18/2021
  Makeup lab

 

Friday
11/19/2021
     
14
Monday
11/22/2021

Fall break

No classes

Tuesday
11/23/2021
Wednesday
11/24/2021
Thursday
11/25/2021
Friday
11/26/2021
15
Monday
11/29/2021

Lecture 24

Fourier Methods (continued)

   
Tuesday
11/30/2021
  Makeup lab

HW #11 Due by 2PM

HW #12
Due Dec. 7 2:00PM

HW#12 Solutions

Wednesday
12/1/2021

Lecture 25

Diffraction Grating

Holography

Makeup lab  
Thursday
12/2/2021
  Makeup lab

 

Friday
12/3/2021
     
16
Monday
12/6/2021

Lecture 26

Holography (continued)

   
Tuesday
12/7/2021
   

HW #12 Due by 2PM

Wednesday
12/8/2021

Review of Lecures 13-26

   
Thursday
12/9/2021
Reading day
17

Friday
12/10/2021

Final exam
1:30-4:30 PM 144 Loomis Laboratory