Course Materials 

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Textbooks

• Required Texts:
  • Physics of Light and Optics, Justin Peatross and Michael Ware, 2011.  (PDF) or get printed copy.
  • Schaum's Outline of Optics, Hecht, McGraw-Hill, 1974.

Review

• Review for Exam I
• Review for Exam II
• Final Exam Review, Sample Final

History of Optics

• Optics Highlights
• Wikipedia Entry
• Brief History of Optics

1D Wave Motion

• Waves on a String
• Solutions of the Wave Equation
• Complex Numbers
• Dr. Herman's Notes on Complex Variables (PDF)

Maxwell's Equations

• Maxwell's Equation Sheet
• A Student Guide to Maxwell's Equations
• Wikipedia Summary
• Maxwell's Original Papers

Electromagnetic Waves

• EM Waves in Dr. Herman's Book
• Electromagnetic Spectrum
• EM Waves in Conductors
• Maple Sheet for HW 3
• Lorentz Model - Maple 14 Plotting

Reflection and Transmission

• Snell's Law
• Snell's Law Applet
• Apparent Depth
• Fresnel's Equations - Maple Worksheet
• PHOTON2 Lab Videos: Brewster's Angle
• Evanescent Waves, Video
• Atmospheric Optics
• Rainbows
• Rainbows, Haloes, Coronae, Glories - Dr. Lewin's Lecture
• Rainbows - Dr. Lewin's (earlier) Lecture
• Angle of Minimum Deviation for Prisms
• Fabry-Perot Interferometer, Applet

Crystals

• Huygen's Methods for Determining Optical Parameters in Birefringence
• Optical Birefringence
• Applets for Birefringence
• Crystal Optics - by Dr. Schmiedmayer
• Anisotropic Optics
• Index Ellipsoid
• Anisotropic Media
• Fresnel Equation in Maple

Polarization

• Polarization Classification
• Jones Calculus
• Polarization Jones vector & matrices
• Relation to Tidal Analysis - Old PPT,
• Ellipses and Phasors - DOC, Maple
• Polarization.mws
• Photon Polarization
• Polarization state of a photon
• Retarders and Jones Calculus
• Optical Activity in Corn Syrup
• BYU Video for Karo Syrup - Problem 6.3, See App 4-A

Fourier Optics

• Dr. Herman's Course Notes Fourier and Complex Analysis.

• Group vs Phase Velocity
  • Image
  • Demo
  • Toolbook
  • Superposition of Waves, Applet
  • Beats

• Fourier Series and Waves

• Fourier Series Applet

• Special Trigonometric Bases - Harvey Mudd College

• Products of Trigonometric Functions, also at ThinkQuest

• Fourier Series - Eric Weinstein's World of Math

• SOS Math - Fourier Series

• Maple File for Fourier Transforms

• Fourier Transform, - Eric Weinstein's World of Math

• Wikipedia Entry on Fourier Transforms

• Fourier Analysis Tutorial

• An Intuitive Explanation of Fourier Theory

• Gaussian Packet - Maple

Interference

• Thin Film Interference
• Dr. Lewin on Interference
• Newton's Rings
• Young's Double Slit Experiment, Applet, Large Applet

Geometric Optics

• Mirrors
  • Multiple Images 1, 2
  • Ray Tracing
• Lenses
  • Thin Lens Applet
  • Thin Lens Formula
  • Thick Lenses - Matrix methods
  • Wikipedia
• Geometric Optics Summary
• Optics Bench
• Fermat's Principle
• Eikonal Equation
• Optics Experiments
• ABCD Matrices - Maple Computations

Diffraction

• Huygen's Principle, Applet
• Single Slit Treatment
• Fresnel-Kirchoff Diffraction
• Frauhofer Diffraction
• Scalar Diffraction Theory
• Helmholtz Equation
• Fresnel Diffraction
• Fresnel and Fraunhofer Diffraction, or here
• Simple Notes
• Diffraction Integral in Maple 11 (See Web Page)
• Diffraction Summary Handout
• More Intensity Plots (Maple)
• Diffraction from edge and Cornu Spirals
• The Cornu Spiral at hyperphysics

Soliton Propagation in Optical Fibers

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