Photonics Lab I

Enrollment Requirements: Undergraduate Prerequisite: CASPY 313 or CASPY 314 or CASPY 351; Undergraduate Corequisite: ENGEC 562; Graduate Prerequisite: Graduate Standing Introduction to optical measurements. Laser safety issues. Laboratory experiments: introduction to lasers and optical alignment; interference; diffraction and Fourier optics; polarization components; fiber optics; optical communications; beam optics; longitudinal laser modes. Optical simulation software tools.