Optics 3800

Optics 3800
MW, 3.00-4.15
Room: NSC 272
Dr. Gary Hastings

Textbook(s):	Physics For Scientists and Engineers, A Strategic Approach R.D. Knight Publisher: Benjamin Cummings/Addison Wesley.
Office:	410 Science Annex
Phone:	(404) 413-6055
E-mail:	ghastings@gsu.edu
Office Hours:	MW 3.00-4.15 pm
Last day to withdraw (W):	Friday March 1^st
Final Exam Week:	May 1-7

Supplementary Textbooks:

1 Optics. 4th Edition. By Eugene Hecht
Eugen Hecht (Benjamin Cummings/Addison Wesley).

2 Optics for Technology Students
Robert Naess (Prentice Hall)

3 Introduction to Classical and Modern Optics Fourth Edition
Jurgen Meyer-Arendt (Prentice Hall)

4 Introduction to Modern Optics
Grant-Fowles (Dover)

5 Introduction toMatrix Methods in Optics
A Gerard and JM Birch (Dover)

6 Optics and Optical Instruments
BK Johnson (Dover)

7 Introduction to Optics" Second or Third Edition
Frank Pedrotti, Leno Pedrotti and Leno Pedrotti (Pearson/Prentice Hall)

Web Resources:

Much of the material in this course is available through HYPERPHYSICS. By Rod Nave here at GSU.

This is a one-semester course advancing (both mathematically and conceptually) many of the concepts and applications met previously in introductory physics courses (Phys2212).
In addition several aspects of modern optics (fiber optics, photo-detectors and lasers, etc) will also be considered.

Chapters 20-24 and 34 in the textbook “Physics For Scientists and Engineers, A Strategic Approach” by R.D. Knight

will be covered in detail with more advanced supplementary material from other textx.

Chapter 20 - Traveling Waves.

Chapter 21 - Superposition.

Chapter 22 – Wave Optics.

Chapter 23 – Ray Optics.

Chapter 24 – Modern Optics and Matter Waves.

Chapter 34 – Electromagnetic Fields and Waves.

2x2 matrices will be used extensively in this course.
Wave phenomena will also be discussed and developed in terms of the complex exponential formalism.
The mathematical basis of matrices and complex exponentials will be only very briefly described in this course.

Syllabus

Electromagnetic Waves

The Electromagnetic Spectrum

The Propagation of Light.

Reflection and Refraction

Fermats Principle

Electromagnetic Theory Description of Reflection and Refraction

Total Internal Reflection

Geometrical Optics I

Thin Lenses, Mirrors and combinations: Paraxial Approach

Dispersion

Rayleigh Scattering

Geometrical Optics II

Thick Lenses and Combinations

Ray Tracing and Matrix Methods

Wave Motion

1-D Harmonic Waves

Phase of a Wave and Phase Velocity

Wave Superposition

Plane, Spherical and Cylindrical Waves

Electromagnetic Waves

The Poynting Vector

Polarization.

Polarizers, Dichroism and Birefringence

Polarization By Scattering and Reflection

Lasers and Laser Optics (three lectures)

Interference.

General Considerations

Wavefront and Amplitude Splitting Interferometers

Diffraction.

Preliminary Considerations

Fraunhofer Diffraction

In addition to classwork an independent research project will be assigned to each student.

Topics chosen for research and presentation can be based on current textbooks (for example some aspects of the textbook chapters in Hecht or Pedrotti).

Many articles from Scientific American are cited in the textbook by Pedrotti.

An oral presentation of these studies will be expected.

In addition, a personalized set of questions on your research topic will be included as part of the final exam.

Topics will generally be concerned with various optical instruments or other systems that require an optical description (for example, lasers).

Choose from the list or come up with your own topic.

Discuss the details with the instructor.

Optical Instruments: Telescopes, Microscopes, Cameras.

Laser Theory and Application
Gaussian Beam Optics. Pulsed Lasers: Q-Switched/Modelocked.

Tunable Dye Lasers. Gas Lasers

Absorption Spectrometers

Optical Properties of Metals
Photometry: Perception of Light and Color By the Human Eye

Fiber Optics
Abberations
Aspects of Nonlinear Optics and Applications
Adaptive Optical Systems
Coherence
Holography
Imaging
Terahertz or Microwave Imaging (Applications: Biosystems, Terrestrial)
Sources of Various Types of Radiation
Detectors of Various Types of Radiation