Optical Properties of Materials

1 Unit · Graduate

Fundamentals of optical properties of materials. Beginning from Maxwell's equations and constitutive relations, covers common models used in the description of the optical constants of metals and insulators. Physics of absorption and scattering from small metallic and dielectric particles. A large portion of the course is on the design and physics of light-guiding structures, (micro-)nano-structured and subwavelength materials, periodic structures (photonic crystals), and photonic circuits. The course is focused on applications of these systems spanning communications to sensing and may introduce simulation software to design them.