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Textbooks

• Required Texts:
  • Physics of Light and Optics, Justin Peatross and Michael Ware, 2008.  (PDF) or get printed copy.
  • Schaum's Outline of Optics, Hecht, McGraw-Hill, 1974.
• Optional Text: Introduction to Modern Optics by Grant R. Fowles, Dover, 1989.

Review

• Review for Exam I
• Review for Exam II (modifications expected)

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 - Detailed Notes

Reflection and Transmission

• Snell's Law
• Snell's Law Applet
• Fresnel's Equations - Maple Worksheet
• More Notes
• PHOTON2 Lab Videos: Brewster's Angle
• Evanescent Field
• Maple Sheet

Geometric Optics

• Mirrors
  • Derivation of Mirror Equation
  • 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

Polarization

• Polarization Classification
• Jones Calculus
• Polarization Jones vector & matrices
• Relation to Tidal Analysis - Old PPT,
• Ellipses and Phasors - DOC, Maple
• Polarization.mws

Crystals

• Huygen's Methods for Determining Optical Parameters in Birefringence
• Optical Birefringence
• Applets for Birefringence
• Crystal Optics - by Dr. Schmiedmayer
• Eikonal equation, alternative expression of Fresnel's equation and Möhr's construction in optical anisotropic media
• Anisotropic Optics
• Index Ellipsoid
• Anisotropic Media
• Fresnel Equation in Maple

Rainbows and More

• Atmospheric Optics
• Rainbows
• Fabry-Perot Interferometer, Applet
• A Simulation of Gravitational Lensing Using Classical Optics

Superposition

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

Fourier Optics

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

• Fourier Series and Waves

• Listen to Fourier Series

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

• Wikipedia Entry

• Fourier Analysis Tutorial

• An Intuitive Explanation of Fourier Theory

• MIT Opencourseware notes

• Diffraction Theory by Fourier Transforms

• Gaussian Packet - Maple

Interference

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

Diffraction

• Huygen's Principle, Applet
• Single Slit (and more) Physics 2 Treatment
• Fresnel-Kirchoff Diffraction
• Frauhofer Diffraction
• Scalar Diffraction Theory
• Helmholtz Equation
• Fresnel Diffraction, Applet
• Fresnel and Fraunhofer Diffraction, or here
• Simple Notes
• TEM Theory
• Obliquity Factor
  • Alternate Explanation from here
• Diffraction Integral in Maple 11 (See Web Page)
• Diffraction Summary Handout
• More Intensity Plots (Maple)

Soliton Propagation in Optical Fibers

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