Optics and Photonics
ENG-SCI 273
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Course Information
Description
The focus is on the foundations of optics/photonics and on some of its most important modern developments and applications. Powerful and widely used computational tools will be developed in the sections. Topics to be covered: Maxwell's equations, Free space optics. Reflection, refraction, polarization (Jones Calculus and Stokes parameters); interference and diffraction. Light-matter interaction, dispersion and absorption. Guided wave optics (including optical fibers). Perturbation and couple mode theory, transfer matrix methods; numerical methods. Optical resonators. Photonic crystals. Near-field optics. Metal optics and Plasmonics. Metamaterials and Metasurfaces.
Course Notes
Open to graduate students and advanced undergraduates.
Recommended Prep
Elements of Electromagnetism, such as taught in Applied Physics 50b, Physics 15b, Physical Sciences 12b, Engineering Sciences 151 or equivalent.
Available for Harvard Cross Registration
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