LC Optics and Photonics:  CPHY 6/74495

This page contains course materials for the LC Optics and Photonics course

taught by Peter Palffy-Muhoray  (Spring, 2012)

Class of 2012: Chenhui Peng, Pedro Coutino Soto, Mohammad Nopoush,  Alireza Moheghi,  Muhammed Salili, Andrii Varanytsiam, Andrew DeMiglio, Libo Weng, Xiaochen Zhou, Yubing Guo.   

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        Syllabus:           CPHY 6/74495

        Link to a great  dictionary of units 

Link to a useful site: FAQ on Radiometry and Photometry

Lecture notes:        

Ch1. Waves on a String

Ch2. Review of E & M

Ch3. Maxwell's Equations

Ch4.  Quantum Mechanics and Classical Fields

Ch.5. Plane Waves in Isotropic Media

Ch.6. Energy Flux

Ch.7. Polarized Light

Ch. 8. Inhomogeneous Solutions

Ch. 9. Fresnel Reflection

Ch. 10.  TIR

Ch. 11.  Etalons 

Gaussian Beams

Ch.12 Light Propagation in  Uniaxial Crystals

Ch.15 Linear Response Theory

Ch. 16 Optical Rotation

Ch. 17   Light Propagation in Cholesterics

Ch. 18  4x4 Matrix Method of Light Propagation

Ch. 19. Nonlinear susceptibility

 

 

Assignments:   

Assignment 1.  

Assignment 1.  Solutions        

Assignment. 2. 

Assignment 2.  Solutions

Assignment 3.

Assignment 3. Solutions

Assignment 4.

Assignment 4. Solutions

Assignment 5.

Assignment 6&7.

 

 

Student Presentations 2012

 

 

 

 

 

        Student Presentations (from 2008):

Optic Fibers

Two-photon Absorption

Photonic Crystal Fiber

Tunable Lens  based on Nematic Liquid Crystals

Introduction to Quantum Optics

Optical Microcavities

Applications of Radiation Pressure

Holography and Liquid Crystals