Q-SiM @ CHEN lab - Modern Optics 25F

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Title: 16:750:305 Modern Optics
Prerequisites: Intro E&M (01:750:227-228 or 01:750:272-273) and 01:640:251 (Calc3, Multi-variable). It is assumed that students have had at least one year of college physics, such as Analytical Physics 227/ 271/ 272. Students should be familiar with Newton's Laws, electric and magnetic fields and Maxwell’s equations (at least in integral form), elementary quantum mechanics and atomic structure, and the properties of a harmonic oscillator.
Instructor: Shaowen Chen (shaowen.chen@rutgers.edu)
Topics: Geometrical optics; electromagnetic waves, the wave equation; superposition, interference, diffraction, polarization, coherence; Fresnel equations, multilayer films; blackbody radiation, lasers; holography; waveguides and fiber optics; optical properties of materials.

Main textbook: Pedrottis' Introduction to Optics, 4th Edition, by Rayf Shiell, Iain McNab, Matthew Romerein. Cambridge University Press (2025). ISBN-13: 978-1316518625. (Physical copy is preferred. 3rd edition is acceptable. Comparison of TOC on Canvas)
Supplementary: E. Hecht, Optics: 5th Edition, Pearson Edu (2016). ISBN-13: 978-0133977226
Other recommended readings:

o C.S. Adams and I.G. Hughes, Optics f2f, From Fourier to Fresnel, Oxford University Press (2019). ISBN: 978-0-19-878678-8

o J. Goodman, Introduction to Fourier Optics, 3rd Ed. Roberts and Company Publishers (2004). ISBN-13: 978-0974707723.

o G. R. Fowles, Introduction to Modern Optics, Wiley, 2nd Ed. (1989). ISBN-13: 978-0486659572

o M.V. Klein and T.E. Furtak, Optics, 2nd Ed. (1986). ISBN-13: 978-0471872979

o M. Born and E. Wolf, Principles of Optics: Electromagnetic Theory, 7th Ed. (1999). ISBN-13: 978-1108477437

o J. D. Jackson, Classical Electrodynamics, 3rd Ed., John Wiley & Sons, Inc. (1998). ISBN-13: 978-0471309321

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