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.
Available for Harvard Cross Registration
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