Principles of Optics

4 credits · College of Engineering catalogue

Advisory Prerequisite: None. Enforced Prerequisite: PHYSICS 240 or PHYSICS 260; No OP/F. Minimum grade requirement of “C” for enforced prerequisite . Credit Exclusions: Student may only receive credit for one course , EECS 334 or PHYSICS 402. (4 credits) Basic principles of optics: light sources and propagation of light; geometrical optics, lenses and imaging; ray tracing and lens aberrations; interference of light waves, coherent and incoherent light beams; Fresnel and Fraunhofer diffraction. Overview of modern optics with laboratory demonstrations.