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OPTI 6000. Selected Topics in Optics. (3) Prerequisite:
Permission of Optics Program Director. Selected topics in optics from
areas such as medical optics, adaptive optics, all optical networks,
etc. May be repeated for up to 6 hours of credit with permission of the
Optics Program Director. (Fall/Spring/Summer)
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OPTI 6101. Mathematical Methods of Optical Science and Engineering. (3).
Topics include: matrix theory, series and Frobenius methods of
solutions to ordinary differential equations, separation of variables
techniques for partial differential equations, special functions,
Fourier series, and transform methods. Topical coverage will emphasize
applications specific to the field of optics. Three lecture hours per
week. (Fall)
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OPTI 6102. Principles of Geometrical and Physical Optics. (3) Ray
analysis of common optical elements (mirrors, lenses and systems of
lenses, prisms). Reflection and refraction at plane and spherical
surfaces, thin and thick lenses, lensmaker's equation, field of view,
and numerical aperture. Wave properties of light, superposition of
waves, diffraction, interference, polarization, and coherence. Optics
of thin films. Three lecture hours per week. (Fall)
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OPTI 6103. Light Sources and Detectors. (3) Prerequisite: OPTI 6211. The nature of light, blackbody radiation. Optical sources, including discharge lamps, light-emittingdiodes, gas and solid state lasers. Quantum wells. Continuous
wave and pulsed (mode-locked, Q-switched) lasers. Selected solid-state
laser systems. Light detection, including thermal and quantum
detectors, photomultiplier tubes, diode detectors. Noise in light
sources and detectors. Three lecture hours per week. (Fall, Odd years)
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OPTI 6104. Electromagnetic Waves. (3) Maxwell’s equations, the electromagnetic wave equation, and electromagnetic wave functions. Waves in dielectric and conducting media, dispersion. Reflection, refraction, transmission,
internal reflection, and evanescent waves at an interface. Intensity.
Introduction to guided waves. Three lecture hours per week. (Spring)
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OPTI 6105. Optical Properties of Materials. (3) Photophysical and photochemical processes in materials. Linear
and nonlinear optical properties of materials. Optical properties of
semiconductors and crystals. Optical transmission, absorption, and
reflection. Fluorescence of organic and inorganic materials. Chiral
molecular systems. Three lecture hours per week. (Fall)
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OPTI 6110. Seminar. (1) Prerequisite: Admission to Optics M.S. program. Topics include: discussion and analysis
of topics of current interest in optics; effective techniques for
making presentations and utilizing library materials; ethical issues in
science and engineering. Attendance required. May be repeated for up to
4 hours credit. One semester of seminar is required of all students in
the Optics M.S. program during each of their first two semesters of
residence. After the first two semesters, students are required to
attend a minimum number of designated lectures. One to two hours per
week. Graded Pass/Fail. (Fall/Spring)
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OPTI 6201. Fourier Optics and Holography. (3) Prerequisites:
OPTI 6102 and OPTI 6104. Principles of scalar, Fresnel, and Fraunhofer
diffraction theory. Coherent optical data processing. Optical filtering
and data processing. Holography. Three lecture hours per week. (Fall, Even years)
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OPTI 6205. Advanced Optical Materials. (3) Prerequisites: OPTI 6104 and OPTI 6105 or ECGR 6133/8133. Molecular optical materials including fabrication methods. Luminescence centers; quenching. Nonlinear optics, including higher order terms of the susceptibility tensor. Photonic crystals. Three lecture hours per week. (Fall, Odd years)
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OPTI 6211. Introduction to Modern Optics. (3) Prerequisites: OPTI 6102 or permission of the instructor. Fourier
analysis and holography, Coherence. Introduction to light production
and detection. Optical modulation, including EO effect, Kerr effect,
amplitude modulation, magnetooptic effect, photoelastic effect, and
acousto-optic effect. Introduction to nonlinear optics. Photonic
switching. Three lecture hours per week. (Spring)
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OPTI 6212. Integrated Photonics. (3) Prerequisites:
OPTI 6102 and OPTI 6104. Theory and application of optical waveguides,
free-space micro-optics, and integrated photonic devices. Fabrication
and integration techniques, including motivations for choice of
approach (hybrid vs. monolithic, materials, size, performance, etc).
Modeling and simulation. Students will be required to work with
mathematical packages such as Matlab and/or Mathematica to illustrate
key concepts and to implement beam propagation/optical modeling
simulations. Three lecture hours per week. (Spring, Odd years)
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OPTI 6221. Optical Communications. (3) Prerequisites: OPTI 6102 and OPTI 6103. Introduction to optical communications
and basic communication block such as lasers, optical modulators, and
optical transceivers. Review of fibers (attenuation, dispersions,
etc.). Optical amplifiers. Passive and active photonic components such
as tunable lasers and filters. Coherent and incoherent detection.
Signal processing, photonic switching, and point-to-point links /
connections. Three lecture hours per week. (Spring, Even years)
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OPTI 6222. Optical Communication Networks. (3) Prerequisite: OPTI 6221 or graduate standing in ECE, CS, or
IT. Optical signal coding, multiplexing and demultiplexing. Time-domain
medium access (TDM (SONET) and TDMA), wavelength-division multiplexing
(WDM and WDMA). Optical networks, add-drop multiplexing (OADM),
switching and routing technologies, Dispersion management. Optical
clock and timing recovery. Optical amplification, wavelength
conversion, transport, and networking protocols. Broadband ISDN
concepts. Access, metro, and long-haul network topologies. Three lecture hours per week. (Fall, Even years)
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OPTI 6241. Optical System Function and Design. (3) Prerequisite: OPTI 6102. Advanced study of telescopes, microscopes,
cameras, off-axis imaging systems, stops, apertures, multiple lenses,
use and selection of ray trace computer codes. Three lecture hours per
week. (Spring, Even years)
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OPTI 6242. Optical Propagation in Inhomogeneous Media. (3) Prerequisites: OPTI 6102 and OPTI 6104. Advanced
study of free space propagation, scattering, and scintillation of
Gaussian and uniform beam waves. Random processes, weak fluctuation
theory, propagation through complex paraxial optical systems (Spring,
Odd years)
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OPTI 6244. High Speed Photonics and Optical Instrumentation. (3) Prerequisites: OPTI 6103 and OPTI 6104. Study of instrumentation used for generation, detection, and manipulation of light in optical circuits. Topics
include ultrashort pulse generation, photon-phonon interactions, 2nd
& 3rd harmonic generation, squeezed light, optical tweezers, OPO,
electro-optic modulators, selective polarizers, optical switches,
amplifiers, multiplexing and mixing schemes, and application of CCD and
CMOS cameras and detectors. Three lecture hours per week. (Spring, Odd
years)
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OPTI 6261. Modern Coherence Theory. (3) Prerequisites:
OPTI 6102 and OPTI 6104. Stochastic processes. Second order coherence
of scalar and vector wavefields, radiation and states of coherence.
Quantum wavefields. (Fall, Odd years)
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OPTI 6271. Advanced Physical Optics (3) Prerequisites:
OPTI 6101, OPTI 6102, and OPTI 6104. Advanced study of electromagnetic
wave propagation, stratified media, physics of geometrical optics,
polarization and crystal optics, absorption and dispersion,
interference, propagation and diffraction. Three lecture hours per
week. (Spring, Odd years)
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OPTI 6281. Modern Optics Laboratory. (3) Prerequisite:
OPTI 6102. Selected experiments in areas of modern optics such as fiber
optics, interferometry, spectroscopy, polarization, optical metrology,
and holography. Six laboratory hours per week. (Spring, Even years)
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OPTI 6691. Research Seminar. (1 - 3) Prerequisite: Permission of the Optics Program Director. A seminar in which
independent study may be pursued by the student, or a group of
students, under the direction of a professor. May be repeated for up to
a maximum of 6 credit hours. (Fall/Spring/Summer)
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OPTI 6991. Thesis Research. (1-3) Prerequisite:
Admission to candidacy. Research for the thesis. May be repeated for a
total of 18 credit hours. Graded Pass/Fail. (Fall/Spring/Summer)
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OPTI 7999. Master’s Degree Graduate Residency Credit. (1)
Prerequisite: OPTI 6991. Required of all Optics M.S. students who have
completed all requirements for the degree except the thesis defense and
are taking no other courses. May be repeated for credit. Credit for
this course does not count toward the degree. Fall/Spring/Summer)
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OPTI 8000. Selected Topics in Optics. (3) Prerequisite:
Permission of Optics Program Director. Selected topics in optics from
areas such as medical optics, adaptive optics, all optical networks,
etc. May be repeated for up to 6 hours of credit with permission of the
Optics Program Director. (Fall/Spring/Summer)
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OPTI 8101. Mathematical Methods of Optical Science and Engineering. (3).
Topics include: matrix theory, series and Frobenius methods of
solutions to ordinary differential equations, separation of variables
techniques for partial differential equations, special functions,
Fourier series, and transform methods. Topical coverage will emphasize
applications specific to the field of optics. Three lecture hours per
week. (Fall)
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|
OPTI 8102. Principles of Geometrical and Physical Optics. (3) Ray
analysis of common optical elements (mirrors, lenses and systems of
lenses, prisms). Reflection and refraction at plane and spherical
surfaces, thin and thick lenses, lensmaker's equation, field of view,
and numerical aperture. Wave properties of light, superposition of
waves, diffraction, interference, polarization, and coherence. Optics
of thin films. Three lecture hours per week. (Fall)
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|
OPTI 8103. Light Sources and Detectors. (3) Prerequisite: OPTI 6211. The nature of light, blackbody radiation. Optical sources, including discharge lamps, light-emittingdiodes, gas and solid state lasers. Quantum wells. Continuous
wave and pulsed (mode-locked, Q-switched) lasers. Selected solid-state
laser systems. Light detection, including thermal and quantum
detectors, photomultiplier tubes, diode detectors. Noise in light
sources and detectors. Three lecture hours per week. (Fall, Odd years)
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OPTI 8104. Electromagnetic Waves. (3) Maxwell’s equations, the electromagnetic wave equation, and electromagnetic wave functions. Waves in dielectric and conducting media, dispersion. Reflection, refraction, transmission,
internal reflection, and evanescent waves at an interface. Intensity.
Introduction to guided waves. Three lecture hours per week. (Spring)
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OPTI 8105. Optical Properties of Materials. (3) Photophysical and photochemical processes in materials. Linear
and nonlinear optical properties of materials. Optical properties of
semiconductors and crystals. Optical transmission, absorption, and
reflection. Fluorescence of organic and inorganic materials. Chiral
molecular systems. Three lecture hours per week. (Fall)
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OPTI 8110. Seminar. (1) Prerequisite: Admission to Optics Ph.D. program. Topics include: discussion and analysis
of topics of current interest in optics; effective techniques for
making presentations and utilizing library materials; ethical issues in
science and engineering. Attendance required. May be repeated for up to
6 hours credit. One semester of seminar is required of all students in
the Optics Ph.D. program during each of their first two semesters of
residence. After the first two semesters, students are required to
attend a minimum number of designated lectures. One to two hours per
week. Graded Pass/Fail. (Fall/Spring)
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OPTI 8201. Fourier Optics and Holography. (3) Prerequisites:
OPTI 6102 and OPTI 6104. Principles of scalar, Fresnel, and Fraunhofer
diffraction theory. Coherent optical data processing. Optical filtering
and data processing. Holography. Three lecture hours per week. (Fall, Even years)
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OPTI 8205. Advanced Optical Materials. (3) Prerequisites: OPTI 6104 and OPTI 6105 or ECGR 6133/8133. Molecular optical materials including fabrication methods. Luminescence centers; quenching. Nonlinear optics, including higher order terms of the susceptibility tensor. Photonic crystals. Three lecture hours per week. (Fall, Odd years)
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OPTI 8211. Introduction to Modern Optics. (3) Prerequisites: OPTI 6102 or permission of the instructor.
Fourier
analysis and holography, Coherence. Introduction to light production
and detection. Optical modulation, including EO effect, Kerr effect,
amplitude modulation, magnetooptic effect, photoelastic effect, and
acousto-optic effect. Introduction to nonlinear optics. Photonic
switching. Three lecture hours per week. (Spring)
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OPTI 8212. Integrated Photonics. (3) Prerequisites:
OPTI 6102 and OPTI 6104. Theory and application of optical waveguides,
free-space micro-optics, and integrated photonic devices. Fabrication
and integration techniques, including motivations for choice of
approach (hybrid vs. monolithic, materials, size, performance, etc).
Modeling and simulation. Students will be required to work with
mathematical packages such as Matlab and/or Mathematica to illustrate
key concepts and to implement beam propagation/optical modeling
simulations. Three lecture hours per week. (Spring, Odd years)
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OPTI 8221. Optical Communications. (3) Prerequisites: OPTI 6102 and OPTI 6103. Introduction to optical communications
and basic communication block such as lasers, optical modulators, and
optical transceivers. Review of fibers (attenuation, dispersions,
etc.). Optical amplifiers. Passive and active photonic components such
as tunable lasers and filters. Coherent and incoherent detection.
Signal processing, photonic switching, and point-to-point links /
connections. Three lecture hours per week. (Spring, Even years)
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OPTI 8222. Optical Communication Networks. (3) Prerequisite: OPTI 6221 or graduate standing in ECE, CS, or
IT. Optical signal coding, multiplexing and demultiplexing. Time-domain
medium access (TDM (SONET) and TDMA), wavelength-division multiplexing
(WDM and WDMA). Optical networks, add-drop multiplexing (OADM),
switching and routing technologies, Dispersion management. Optical
clock and timing recovery. Optical amplification, wavelength
conversion, transport, and networking protocols. Broadband ISDN
concepts.
Access, metro, and long-haul network topologies. Three lecture hours per week. (Fall, Even years)
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OPTI 8241. Optical System Function and Design. (3) Prerequisite: OPTI 6102. Advanced study of telescopes, microscopes,
cameras, off-axis imaging systems, stops, apertures, multiple lenses,
use and selection of ray trace computer codes. Three lecture hours per
week. (Spring, Even years)
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OPTI 8242. Optical Propagation in Inhomogeneous Media. (3) Prerequisites: OPTI 6102 and OPTI 6104. Advanced
study of free space propagation, scattering, and scintillation of
Gaussian and uniform beam waves. Random processes, weak fluctuation
theory, propagation through complex paraxial optical systems (Spring,
Odd years)
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OPTI 8244. High Speed Photonics and Optical Instrumentation. (3) Prerequisites: OPTI 6103 and OPTI 6104. Study of instrumentation used for generation, detection, and manipulation of light in optical circuits. Topics
include ultrashort pulse generation, photon-phonon interactions, 2nd
& 3rd harmonic generation, squeezed light, optical tweezers, OPO,
electro-optic modulators, selective polarizers, optical switches,
amplifiers, multiplexing and mixing schemes, and application of CCD and
CMOS cameras and detectors. Three lecture hours per week. (Spring, Odd
years)
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OPTI 8261. Modern Coherence Theory. (3) Prerequisites:
OPTI 6102 and OPTI 6104. Stochastic processes. Second order coherence
of scalar and vector wavefields, radiation and states of coherence.
Quantum wavefields. (Fall, Odd years)
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OPTI 8271. Advanced Physical Optics (3) Prerequisites:
OPTI 6101, OPTI 6102, and OPTI 6104. Advanced study of electromagnetic
wave propagation, stratified media, physics of geometrical optics,
polarization and crystal optics, absorption and dispersion,
interference, propagation and diffraction. Three lecture hours per
week. (Spring, Odd years)
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OPTI 8281. Modern Optics Laboratory. (3) Prerequisite:
OPTI 6102. Selected experiments in areas of modern optics such as fiber
optics, interferometry, spectroscopy, polarization, optical metrology,
and holography. Six laboratory hours per week. (Spring, Even years)
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OPTI 8691. Research Seminar. (1 - 3) Prerequisite: Permission of the Optics Program Director. A seminar in which
independent study may be pursued by the student, or a group of
students, under the direction of a professor. May be repeated for up to
a maximum of 6 credit hours. (Fall/Spring/Summer)
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OPTI 8991. Dissertation Research. (1–3) Prerequisite:
Admission to candidacy. Research for the dissertation. May be repeated
for a total of 54 credit hours. Graded Pass/Fail. (Fall/Spring/Summer)
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OPTI 9999. Doctoral Degree Graduate Residency Credit. (1) Prerequisite:
OPTI 8991. Required of all Optics Ph.D. students who have completed all
requirements for the degree except the dissertation defense and are
taking no other courses. May be repeated for credit. Credit for this
course does not count toward the degree. (Fall/Spring/Summer)
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