Note: You must establish a session for Fall Academic Term 2002 on wolverineaccess.umich.edu in order to use the link "Check Times, Location, and Availability". Once your session is established, the links will function. Courses in Applied Physics This page was created at 7:41 PM on Thu, Oct 3, 2002. Fall Academic Term, 2002 (September 3 - December 20) APPPHYS 530 / EECS 530. Electromagnetic Theory I. Section 001. Instructor(s): John L Volakis Prerequisites & Distribution: PHYSICS 438 or EECS 330. (3). (Excl). (BS). CAEN lab access fee required for non-Engineering students. Credits: (3). Lab Fee: CAEN lab access fee required for non-Engineering students. Course Homepage: No homepage submitted. 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 magnetostatics. I. Check Times, Location, and Availability Cost: No Data Given. Waitlist Code: 1 APPPHYS 537 / EECS 537. Classical Optics. Section 001. Instructor(s): Gerard A Mourou Prerequisites & Distribution: EECS 330 or 334. (3). (Excl). (BS). CAEN lab access fee required for non-Engineering students. Credits: (3). Lab Fee: CAEN lab access fee required for non-Engineering students. Course Homepage: No homepage submitted. 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. Textbook: R.D. Guenther, Modern Optics Wiley & Sons, New York, 1990. Alternates: M. Born and E. Wolf, Principles of Optics, Pergamon Press, New York, 4th or later edition, 1970 J.D. Jackson, Classical Electrodynamics, 2nd edition, Wiley & Sons, New York, 1975. W. Panofsky and M. Phillips, Classical Electricity & Magnetism, Addison-Wesley Publishing Co., 1962. Lecture # Topic 1. Review of Maxwell's equations & derivation of wave equation 2. Plane wave solutions, Poynting's theorem, momentum transfer 3. Boundary conditions on fields, derivation of Fresnel reflection and transmission formulae 4. Brewster's angle, total internal reflection, frustrated TIR, conducting media 5. Inhomogeneous media: propagation and TIR 6. Classical dispersion theory: electric dipole radiation, decay, Lorentz model 7. Macroscopic polarization: dephasing and steady-state solutions of the Lorentz model, concept of susceptibility 8. Complex susceptibilities, Sellmeier equation, resonant dispersion and absorption, Beer's Law 9. Time- and frequency-domain response functions, Fourier transform relations, causality and Kramers-Kronig relations 10. Pulse propagation, group velocity 11. Light scattering: cross sections, attenuation 12. Light scattering: the Mie solution 13. Light scattering: Rayleigh, Brillouin and Raman scattering (blue sky, red sunset, fiber losses) 14. Fluctuation-dissipation theorem 15. Review of geometric optics: eikonal and ray equations, lenses, images 16. Paraxial ray tracing and ABCD matrices 17. ABCD matrices of optical systems (the ABCD law), thick lenses 18. Principal planes, stops, pupils, chromatic aberratios 19. Other aberrations 20. Interference:  double slit, layered media 21. Michelson and other interferometers 22. Interference of N waves: N-slit pattern, gratings, Fabry-Perot 23. Properties and applications of the Favry-Perot 24. Coherence: beats between waves, transform relation between fringe pattern and power spectrum 25. ; Coherence: physical models of processes limiting coherence time, fringe visibility, correlation functions 26. Coherence: degree of coherence, Wiener-Khintchine theorem 27. Coherence: spatial coherence, mutual coherence, applications in stellar interferometry and phosphors 28. Diffraction: paraxial wave equation and Gaussian beam solutions 29. Properties of Gaussian beams: the ABCD law applied to resonators and diffraction-limited beams 30. Focusing of Gaussian beams, Guoy shift, higher order Hermite-Gaussian and Laguerre-Gaussian modes 31. Diffraction: Huygen's principle, Fresnel-Kirchoff theory 32. Fresnel and Fraunhofer limits, spatial frequencies, 2-D Fourier transforms 33. Specific applications: rectangular aperture, circular aperture 34. Array theorem (& gratings), Babinet's Principle, Fresnel diffraction of the rectangular aperture 35. Cornu spiral, Fresnel zones 36. Radiation by accelerating charges: Lienard-Wiechert potentials 37. Radiation by accelerating charges: angular distributions and radiation damping 38. Radiation by accelerating charges: linear and circular accelerators, synchrotron radiation. Check Times, Location, and Availability Cost: No Data Given. Waitlist Code: 1 APPPHYS 540 / EECS 540. Applied Quantum Mechanics. Section 001. Instructor(s): D Steel Prerequisites & Distribution: Permission of instructor. (3). (Excl). (BS). CAEN lab access fee required for non-Engineering students. Credits: (3). Lab Fee: CAEN lab access fee required for non-Engineering students. Course Homepage: No homepage submitted. No Description Provided. Contact the Department. Check Times, Location, and Availability Cost: No Data Given. Waitlist Code: No Data Given. APPPHYS 552 / EECS 552. Fiber Optical Communications. Section 001. Instructor(s): Mohammed Nazrul Islam Prerequisites & Distribution: EECS 434 or 538. (3). (Excl). (BS). CAEN lab access fee required for non-Engineering students. Credits: (3). Lab Fee: CAEN lab access fee required for non-Engineering students. Course Homepage: No homepage submitted. Principles of fiber optical communications and nerworks. Point-to-point systems and shared medium networks. Fiber propagation including attenuation, dispersion and nonlinearities. Topics covered include erbium-doped amplifiers, Bragg and long period gratings, fiber transmission based on solitons and non-return-to-zero, and time and wavelength-division-multiplexed networks. Check Times, Location, and Availability Cost: No Data Given. Waitlist Code: 1 Graduate Course Listings for APPPHYS. This page was created at 7:41 PM on Thu, Oct 3, 2002. 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