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Graduate Programs M.S. Applied Physics | Optics Courses |
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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) 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) 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) 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) 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) 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) THESIS RESEARCHOPTI 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) 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) M.S. OPTICS ELECTIVESOPTI 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) 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) 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) 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) 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) 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) 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) 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) 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) 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) 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) 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) 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) 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) Ph.D. Degree CORE CURRICULUMOPTI 8101. Mathematical Methods of Optical Science and Engineering. (3) See OPTI 6101 for Course Description. OPTI 8102. Principles of Geometrical and Physical Optics. (3) See OPTI 6102 for Course Description. OPTI 8104. Electromagnetic Waves. (3) See OPTI 6104 for Course Description. OPTI 8105. Optical Properties of Materials. (3) See OPTI 6105 for Course Description. OPTI 8211. Introduction to Modern Optics. (3) Prerequisites: OPTI 8102 or permission of the instructor. See OPTI 6211 for Course Description. 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) PH.D. DISSERTATIONOPTI 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) 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) PH.D. OPTICS ELECTIVESOPTI 8000. Selected Topics in Optics. (3) Prerequisite: Permission of Optics Program Director. See OPTI 6000 for Course Description. OPTI 8103. Light Sources and Detectors. (3) Prerequisite: OPTI 8211. See OPTI 6103 for Course Description. OPTI 8201. Fourier Optics and Holography. (3) Prerequisites: OPTI 8102 and OPTI 8104. See OPTI 6201 for Course Description. OPTI 8205. Advanced Optical Materials. (3) Prerequisites: OPTI 8104 and OPTI 8105 or ECGR 6133/8133. See OPTI 6205 for Course Description. OPTI 8212. Integrated Photonics. (3) Prerequisites: OPTI 8102 and OPTI 8104. See OPTI 6212 for Course Description. OPTI 8221. Optical Communications. (3) Prerequisites: OPTI 8102 and OPTI 8103. See OPTI 6221 for Course Description. OPTI 8222. Optical Communication Networks. (3) Prerequisite: OPTI 8221. See OPTI 6222 for Course Description. OPTI 8241. Optical System Function and Design. (3) Prerequisite: OPTI 8102. See OPTI 6241 for Course Description. OPTI 8242. Optical Propagation in Inhomogeneous Media. (3) Prerequisites: OPTI 8102 and OPTI 8104. See OPTI 6242 for Course Description. OPTI 8244. High Speed Photonics and Optical Instrumentation. (3) Prerequisites: OPTI 8103 and OPTI 8104. See OPTI 6244 for Course Description. OPTI 8261. Modern Coherence Theory. (3) Prerequisites: OPTI 8102 and OPTI 8104. See OPTI 6261 for Course Description. OPTI 8271. Advanced Physical Optics (3) Prerequisites: OPTI 8101, OPTI 8102, and OPTI 8104. See OPTI 6271 for Course Description. OPTI 8281. Modern Optics Laboratory. (3) Prerequisite: OPTI 8102. See OPTI 6281 for Course Description. OPTI 8691. Research Seminar. (1 - 3) Prerequisite: Permission of Optics Program Director. See OPTI 6691 for Course Description. |
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