PHYS 652: Optics

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Syllabus for
PHYS 652: Optics (Modern Optics)
 
0.1 Instructor
Zenghu Chang
Associate Professor, Department of Physics
e-mail: chang@phys.ksu.edu
Phone: (785) 532-1621
Room: 330

Office Hour: by appointment
Lecture: M and W 2:30 at CW216, home work due every Friday 1:30
Lab: Thursday 10am for group I and F 1:30 for the other two groups at CW312 or JRM lab, Report due Wednesday the following week
Late turn in of home work and lab reports are not accepted except very special cases.

0.2 Grade Allocations

  • Home work: 1/4
  • Lab: 1/4
  • Quiz scores: 1/4
  • Final exam: 1/4
  • A:90-100, B:80-89, C:70-79, D:60-69, F:0-59

0.3 Text book

Optics, by E. Hecht,
4th edition, Addison Wesley (ISBN 0-8053-8566-5).

Nonlinear Optics, by R. Boyd,
Academic Press (ISBN 0-12-121680-2).

0.4 Chapters to be covered

  • Optics
    Chapter 6 More on Geometrical Optics
    Chapter 2 Wave Motion
    Chapter 10 Diffraction
    First Quiz Friday 2:30 3/14/2003
  • test1 grades
    Chapter 7 The Superposition of Waves
    Chapter 11 Fourier Optics
    Second Quiz
  • test2 grades
  • Nonlinear Optics
    Chapter 1 The Nonlinear Optical Susceptibility
  • Chapter 1 Notes
  • Chapter 1 grades Final Review
  • review Notes Final Exam
  • Final exam grades
  • Course grades

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