OPTICS-lecture 1
OPTICS-lecture 1
PHY369 (3, 0)
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About You!
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Overview of Learning Activities
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Grading
• Homework/Assignments ( x 4) = 10 %
• Quiz (x 4) = 15 %
• 1st Sessional Exam = 10 %
• 2nd Sessional Exam = 15 %
• Terminal/Final Exam = 50 %
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Effective learning
• Ask questions*.
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Otherwise
The night before the EXAM
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Course Objectives
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Course Outline
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Course Outline
(continued)
• reflection/refraction from spherical surfaces,
• thin lenses, thin-lens combinations, rays, stops, field of view, pupils,
windows, aperture, relative aperture and f-number,
• convergence and refractive power,
• Newtonian equation for thin lenses,
• thick lenses, analytical ray tracing, matrix method of lens analysis,
• matrix analysis of mirrors,
• optical elements: mirror (plane/spherical/cylindrical), half wave plate,
quarter wave plate, prisms, beam splitter, polarized beam splitter,
• birefringent. Pockel effect/cell, Kerr effect/cell, fiber optics,
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Course Outline
(continued)
• aberrations, optical instruments (telescope, microscope), wave optics:
harmonic waves, wave number, phase velocity,
• complex representation of waves,
• plane and three-dimensional waves (spherical/cylindrical),
• electromagnetic waves (Maxwell equations).
• energy and momentum argument, radiation pressure,
• light in bulk matter,
• dispersion of light, group velocity,
• superluminal and subluminal light,
• all-harmonic periodic waves (Fourier method), coherence, temporal
and spatial coherence. interference (coherent/incoherent)
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Course Outline
(continued)
• conditions for interference, Fresnel-Arago law, multi beam interference,
interferometers (Young’s double slit, Michelson, Mech-Zehnder, Fabry-
Perot).
• uses of interference (measurement of thickness, uses in lasers, uses in
gravitational waves detections),
• polarization (linear/circular/elliptical),
• Stokes parameters, Jones vector, mathematical representation of
polarizer's/Jones and Mueller matrices,
• angular momentum and photon picture, Malus's law. polarizer (wire
grid/dichroic crystal, Polarization by scattering/reflection, Brewster angle),
• Birefringence, calcite, Fraunhofer diffraction from circular
aperture/rectangular aperture/slit,
• Fresnel diffraction from circular aperture/rectangular
aperture/slit/multiple slits.
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Course Resources
1. Class lectures
2. Text books*
Fundamental of Physics, 9th Edition,
by: D. Halliday, R. Resnick, and J. Walker
Physics for Scientists and Engineers, 6th
Edition, by: Serway and Jewett
3. World-Wide Web (www…..)
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OPTICS, the study of LIGHT
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Natural and Artificial Imaging
systems
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History of Optics
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The dual (particle/wave) nature of
light
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The dual (particle/wave) nature of
light
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The Electromagnetic Wave
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The Electromagnetic Spectrum
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Waves in 1-dimension
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Waves in 1-dimension
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Waves in 3-dimensions
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Plane wave fronts
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Circular Waves in 2-dimensions
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Spherical Waves in 2-dimensions
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Spherical wave-fronts
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Rays
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Interaction of Light with Matter
▪ – absorption
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Interaction of Light with Matter
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Interaction of Light with Matter
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Interaction of Light with Matter
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Interaction of Light with Matter
Refraction
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Interaction of Light with Matter
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Interaction of Light with Matter
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Fermat’s Principle
A way to explain reflection and
refraction as the consequence of
one single principle
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Fermat’s Principle
𝐿= 𝑥 2 + 𝑑2 + 𝐷−𝑥 2 + 𝑑2
𝑑𝐿 𝑥 𝐷−𝑥
= − =0
𝑑𝑥 2
𝑥 +𝑑 2 𝐷−𝑥 2 + 𝑑2
𝑥2 𝐷2 + 𝑥 2 − 2𝐷𝑥
2 2
= 2
𝑥 +𝑑 𝐷 + 𝑥 2 − 2𝐷𝑥 + 𝑑 2
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Fermat’s Principle
Simplifying, we get
𝐷
𝑥=
2
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Questions an Answers
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