ECEN 5156 - Physical Optics Course Home Page

Prof. Kelvin Wagner

Fall 1999

Course Materials

Place: ECEE 1B73
Time: TR 11:00-12:20, Fall 1999
Credits: 3
Text: Born & Wolf, Principles of Optics
Auxiliary Texts: Mickelson, Physical Optics
  Saleh , Photonics
  Thin Film Optical Filters, Macleod

Grading:

 Homework 50%, Project 15%, midterm 15%, final 20%
  late: {\rm score}=100(.5+.5 e^{-t_{\rm days}/5})(1-H(t-t_{grade}))

 
Course Outline

Electromagnetic Wave Propagation
Stratified media
Physics of Geometrical Optics
Polarization and Crystal Optics
Absorption and Dispersion
Interference
Propagation and Diffraction

Guest Lecturers

Greg Kriehn CU 303-735-3348 kriehn@colorado.edu
Dr. G. S. Pati CU 303-492-0886 pati@colorado.edu (?)
Dr. Elizabeth Sornsin NIST 303-497-7612 sornsin@boulder.nist.gov
You will need a postscript printer to print the postscript files linked here. In addition a previewer such as ghostview would be very useful.

Homework Assignments (50%)

Midterm (15%) in class around mid October

Open class notes and book (Born & Wolf only).

Final (20%) Sat Dec 11 7:30pm-10:30pm ECEE 1B73

Open class notes and book (Born & Wolf only).

Software demonstration tools

Please be advised these tools are beta versions and may have some mild bizarre behavior. Feedback is appreciated. These tools are written in IDL, and should be able to be run on any Unix, PC, or Mac with IDL.
IDL Demo instructions pages

Poincare sphere

Various linear states of polarization propagating through a quarter wave plate on the poincare sphere (postscript)

Rotating quarter waveplate with incident linear polarization (postscript)

Prof. Kelvin Wagner's Home Page and how to reach me