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Week Date Lecture Reading Lab Homework
1
Monday
1/20/2020
       

Tuesday
1/21/2020
Geometric Optics, Fermat's Principle Hecht: 4.2.3; 4-3-4.5    

Wednesday
1/22/2020
       

Thursday
1/23/2020
Thin Lenses Hecht: 5.1-5.3 No Lab HW #1

Friday
1/24/2020
    No Lab  
2
Monday
1/27/2020
       


Tuesday
1/28/2020
Extended Images Hecht: 5.2.3 (Finite Imagery) and 5.4, 5.6    

Wednesday
1/29/2020
       
Thursday
1/30/2020
Optical systems Hecht 5.7 Lab #1: Aberrations or Telescope HW #2

Friday
1/31/2020
    Lab #1: Aberrations or Telescope  
3 Monday
2/3/2020
       
Tuesday
2/4/2020
Matrix method. Thick lens Hecht 6.1-6.3    
Wednesday
2/5/202
       
Thursday
2/6/2020
Review of waves Hecht 2.1-2.8 Lab #1: Aberrations or Telescope HW #3
Friday
2/7/2020
    Lab #1: Aberrations or Telescope  
4 Monday
2/10/2020
       
Tuesday
2/11/2020
Electromagnetic waves Hecht 3.1-3.2    
Wednesday
2/12/2020
       
Thursday
2/13/2020
Energy and Momentum Hecht 3.3 Lab #2, Telescope or Aberrations  
Friday
2/14/2020
    Lab #2, Telescope or Aberrations  
5 Monday
2/17/2020
       
Tuesday
2/18/2020
tRadiation of EM waves Hecht 3.4   HW #4
Wednesday
2/19/2020
       
Thursday
2/20/2020
Light in Matter tHecht 3.5 Lab #2, Telescope or Aberrations  
Friday
2/21/2020
    Lab #2, Telescope or Aberrations  
6 Monday
2/24/2020
       
Tuesday
2/25/2020
Light Scattering Hecht 41; 4.2; 4.6    
Wednesday
2/26/2020
       
Thursday
2/27/2020
Fresnel Formulas Hecht 4.6; 4.7 Lab #3, your choice HW #5
Friday
2/28/2020
    Lab #3, your choice  
7 Monday
3/2/2020
       
Tuesday
3/3/2020
Fourier Analysis and Wave Packets Hecht 7.1-7.4    
Wednesday
3/4/2020
       
Thursday
3/5/2020
Polarization and Birefringence Hecht 8.1-8.4 Lab #3, your choice HW #6
Friday
3/6/2020
    Lab #3, your choice  
8 Monday
3/9/2020
       
Tuesday
3/10/2020
Making Polarized Light Hecht 8.4-8.6    
Wednesday
3/11/2020
       
Thursday
3/12/2020
Midterm Exam;    Solutions   Lab #4, your choice  
Friday
3/13/2020
    Lab #4, your choice  
9 Monday
3/16/2020
Spring Break
Tuesday
3/17/2020
Wednesday
3/18/2020
Thursday
3/19/2020
Friday
3/20/2020
10 Monday
3/23/2020
      HW #7
Tuesday
3/24/2020

Polarizers, Optical Devices, Stokes Paramters

v1, v2, v3, v4, v5, v6, v7, v8

 

     
Wednesday
3/25/2020
       
Thursday
3/26/2020

Interferometry

v1, v2, v3, v4, v5, v6, v7 

  no lbas  
Friday
3/27/2020
    no labs  
11 Monday
3/30/2020
       
Tuesday
3/31/2020

Multiple beam interference

v1, v2, v3

     
Wednesday
4/1/2020
      HW #8
Thursday
4/2/2020

Fabry-Perot interferometers

v1, v2, v3, v4, v5

  Lab #5, your choice  
Friday
4/3/2020
    Lab #5, your choice  
12 Monday
4/6/2020
       
Tuesday
4/7/2020

Fraunhofer diffraction
v1v2, v3, v4 

     
Wednesday
4/8/2020
       
Thursday
4/9/2020
Fresnel diffraction
v1v2, v3, v4 
   
  HW #9
Friday
4/10/2020
       
13 Monday
4/13/2020
       
Tuesday
4/14/2020

Fourier methods in diffraction
v1v2, v3, v4, v5 

question 1

     
Wednesday
4/15/2020
       
Thursday
4/16/2020
Quantization of energy and photons
v1v2, v3
    HW #10
Friday
4/17/2020
       
14 Monday
4/20/2020
       
Tuesday
4/21/2020

Holography
v1v2, v3v4

     
Wednesday
4/22/2020
       
Thursday
4/23/2020

LASER
v1v2, v3

    HW #11
Friday
4/24/2020
       
15 Monday
4/27/2020
       
Tuesday
4/28/2020
Nonlinear optics
v1v2, v3
     
Wednesday
4/29/2020
      HW #12
Thursday
4/30/2020

Loss angle and loss tangent

v1v2, v3

     
Friday
5/1/2020
       
16 Monday
5/4/2020
       
Tuesday
5/5/202

Skin effect

v1

     
Wednesday
5/6/2020
       
Thursday
5/7/202
Reading Day      
17 TBD Final Exam: 05/08/2020 (Friday), start: 6:30pm) Duration: 4 hours