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Courses in Applied Physics (Division 320)

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APPPHYS 514. Applied Physics Seminar.
(1-2). (Excl). (BS). May be repeated for credit.
Seminar designed to familiarize students with current research problems.
APPPHYS 530 / EECS 530. Electromagnetic Theory I.
Physics 438 or EECS 330. I. (3). (Excl). (BS). CAEN lab access fee required for non-Engineering students.
Maxwell's equations, constitutive relations and boundary conditions. Potentials and the representation of electromagnetic fields. Uniqueness, duality, equivalence, reciprocity and Babinet's theorems. Plane, cylindrical and spherical waves. Waveguides and elementary antennas. The limiting case of electro- and magneto-statics.
APPPHYS 537 / EECS 537. Classical Optics.
EECS 330 or 334. (3). (Excl). (BS). CAEN lab access fee required for non-Engineering students.
A theory of electromagnetic, physical, and geometrical optics. Classical theory of dispersion. Linear response, Kramers-Kronig relations, and pulse propagation. Light scattering. Geometrical optics and propagation in inhomogeneous media. Dielectric waveguides. Interferometry and theory of coherence. Diffraction, Fresnel and Fraunhofer. Guassian beams and ABCD law.
APPPHYS 540 / EECS 540. Applied Quantum Mechanics.
Permission of instructor. I. (3). (Excl). (BS). CAEN lab access fee required for non-Engineering students.
Introduction to nonrelativistic quantum mechanics. Summary of classical mechanics, postulates of quantum mechanics and operator formalism, stationary state problems (including quantum wells, harmonic oscillator, angular momentum theory and spin, atoms and molecules, band theory in solids), time evolution, approximation methods for time independent and time dependent interactions including electromagnetic interactions, scattering.
APPPHYS 546 / EECS 546. Ultrafast Optics.
Applied Physics 537. (3). (Excl). (BS). CAEN lab access fee required for non-Engineering students.
Propagation of ultrashort optical pulses in linear and nonlinear media, and through dispersive optical elements. Laser mode-locking and ultrashort pulse generation. Chirped-pulse amplification. Experimental techniques for high time resolution. Ultrafast optoelectronics. Survey of ultrafast high field interactions.

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