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ECE3340J – Principles of Optics
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Credits: 4 credits
Pre-requisites: PHYS2400J Obtained Credit||PHYS2600J Obtained Credit||VP245 Obtained Credit||VP250 Obtained Credit
Description:
This course introduces basic principles of optics. Topics include light sources and propagation of light, geometrical optics, lenses and imaging, ray tracing and lens aberrations; interference of light waves, coherent and incoherent light beams, Fresnel and Fraunhofer diffraction, and other selected topics on modern optics.
Course Topics:
- The nature of light
- Geometrical optics: image formation, aperture and stops
- Geometrical optics: lens system, ray tracing
- Geometrical optics: aberrations
- Geometrical optics: example optical systems
- Wave motion, EM theory, photons, and light
- The propagation of light
- Superposition of waves, coherence
- Polarization
- Birefringence, propagation of light in crystal
- Interference: general considerations
- Interference: interferometer systems and applications
- Diffraction: Huygen’s principle, Fraunhofer and Fresnel diffraction, zone plates
- Diffraction: diffraction gratings, holography
- Introduction to Fourier optics
- Selected topics on modern optics