01-02 LS&A Bulletin

Courses in Applied Physics (Division 320)

APPPHYS 514. Applied Physics Seminar.: (1-2). May be repeated for credit.; Seminar designed to familiarize students with current research problems.
APPPHYS 518 / PHYSICS 518. Microcomputers in Experimental Research.: Graduate standing. (3).; A laboratory course designed to give students hands-on experience with modern techniques of data acquisition, handling, and analysis, and graphical presentation of results using micro-computers. Several experiments will be carried out which illustrate how to interface research instrumentation in a variety of commonly encountered laboratory situations.
APPPHYS 529 / PHYSICS 529. Techniques of Experimental Physics.: Graduate standing. (3).
APPPHYS 530 / EECS 530. Electromagnetic Theory I.: Physics 438 or EECS 330. I. (3). 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). 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). 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). 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.
APPPHYS 550 / PHYSICS 650 / EECS 538. Lasers and Electro-Optics I.: EECS 434. Graduate Standing. (3). CAEN lab access fee required for non-Engineering students.; Propagation of laser beams: Gaussian wave optics and the ABCD law. Manipulation of light by electrical, acoustical waves; crystal properties and the dielectric tensor; electro-optic, acousto-optic effects and devices. Introduction to nonlinear optics; harmonic generation, optical rectification, four-wave mixing, self-focusing, and self-phase modulation.
APPPHYS 551 / PHYSICS 651 / EECS 539. Lasers.: EECS 537 or 538. Graduate Standing. (3). CAEN lab access fee required for non-Engineering students.; Complete study of laser operation: the atom-field interaction; homogeneous and inhomogeneous broadening mechanisms; atomic rate equations; gainand saturation; laser oscillation; laser resonators, modes, and cavity equations; cavity modes; laser dynamics, Q-switching adn modelocking. Special topics such as femto-seconds lasers and ultrahigh power lasers.
APPPHYS 601 / PHYSICS 540. Advanced Condensed Matter.: Graduate standing. (3).
APPPHYS 609 / PHYSICS 542 / EECS 638. Quantum Optics.: Graduate standing. (3). CAEN lab access fee required for non-Engineering students.; Details of image formation theory, including the consideration of dynamic image sequences. The theoretical frameworks for edge detection, feature extraction, and surface description are presented. The relationship between image formation and object features is examined in detail. Programming required.
APPPHYS 611 / PHYSICS 611 / EECS 634. Nonlinear Optics.: EECS 537 or EECS 538 or EECS 530. Graduate standing. (3). CAEN lab access fee required for non-Engineering students.; Formalism of wave propagation in nonlinear media; susceptibility tensor; second harmonic generation and three-wave mixing; phase matching; third order nonlinearities and four-wave mixing processes; stimulated Raman and Brillouin scattering. Special topics: nonlinear optics in fibers, including solitons and self-phase modulation.
APPPHYS 619 / PHYSICS 619. Advanced Solid State Physics.: Graduate standing. (3).; After a review of semiconductor physics, the course will focus on quantum transport in semiconductor heterostructures. Topics such as electronic structure of III-V semiconductors, heterojunctions and band gap engineering, quantum wells, superlattices, resonant tunneling structures, two-dimensional electron gas, quantum point contacts, quantum dots and other mesoscopic structures, ballistic transport, coherent transport, and integer and fractional quantum Hall effects will be covered.
APPPHYS 633 / PHYSICS 633. Fluid Dynamics.: Second-year graduate standing. (3).
APPPHYS 644 / PHYSICS 644. Advanced Atomic Physics.: Graduate standing. (3).
APPPHYS 668 / CHEM 668. Principles of Molecular and Solid State Symmetry.: Graduate standing and permission of instructor. (3; 2 in the half-term).
APPPHYS 669 / CHEM 669. Chemical Physics of Extended Surfaces.: Chem. 570 and Graduate standing. (3).
APPPHYS 672 / NERS 572. Plasma and Controlled Fusion II.: Nuc. Eng. 571. (3). CAEN lab access fee required for non-Engineering students.; Waves in non-uniform plasmas, magnetic shear; absorption, reflection, and tunneling gradient-driven microinstabilities; BGK mode and nonlinear Landau damping; macroscopic instabilities and their stabilization; non-ideal MHD effects.
APPPHYS 674 / NERS 674. High Intensity Laser-Plasma Interactions.: NE&RS 471, 571 and Graduate Standing. (3). CAEN lab access fee required for non-Engineering students.; Coupling of intense electromagnetic radiation to electrons and collective modes in time-dependent and equilibrium plasmas, ranging from underdense to solid-density. Theory, numerical models and experiments in laser fusion, x-ray lasers, novel electron accelerators and nonlinear optics.
APPPHYS 715. Independent Research.: Permission of Program Director. Graduate Standing. (1-5). (INDEPENDENT).; Intended for individualized student research under faculty supervision. Must be arranged with the faculty member and approved by the program.
APPPHYS 990. Dissertation/Precandidate.: Election for dissertation work by doctoral student not yet admitted as a Candidate. Graduate Standing. (1-8). (INDEPENDENT). May be repeated for credit.; Election for dissertation work by doctoral student not yet admitted as a Candidate.
APPPHYS 995. Dissertation/Candidate.: Graduate School authorization for admission as a doctoral Candidate. Graduate standing. (8). (INDEPENDENT). May be repeated for credit.; Graduate School authorization for admission as a doctoral Candidate. N.B. The defense of the dissertation (the final oral examination) must be held under a full term Candidacy enrollment period.

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