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PHY 641 Modern Optics


A combined lecture/laboratory course including but not limited to scattering and reflection of polarized light, polarization devices, beam optics, resonators, lasers and their spatial and temporal characteristics, Fourier image processing, holography, and optical phase conjugation. Lecture: three hours per week. Laboratory: three hours per week.

Credit 4 hrs
Grade Mode Normal (A-F) Course Rotation Winter (even yrs., in-person)

Prerequisites - PHY 542 
Restriction by Major -
Restriction by Degree Type - Graduate standing

Equivalent Course(s) - PHY 541
Course History -
Course Rotation updated 10/2018; Change to number and prerequisites 12/2016, effective Fall 2017; Course Rotation added 8/2014


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