Classical Optics

 

Prof. Dong Sun

West Physics Building Room 576

International Center for Quantum Materials

62766922

 

Prerequisites: Optics, E&M or Graduate Students

Lecture: Tuesday and Wednesday 6:40 PM-8:40 PM @ West 663 of Physics Building

Office hours: Tuesday 4:00PM-5:00PM or by appointment (send me an email)

E-mail: sundong@pku.edu.cn

 

Textbook:

None required. All required reading selections will be posted on the web.

 

Supplementary References:

R. Guenther, Modern Optics (Wiley)

M. Born and E. Wolf, Principles of Optics (Cambridge, 7th edition)

G. Booker, Modern Classical Optics (Oxford)

E. Hecht, Optics (Addison Wesley, 2nd edition)

 

Course WebSite:

Information and course materials will be posted on website:

www.phy.pku.edu.cn/~sundong/Teaching.htm

 

This will include copies of the lecture notes, homework assignments, assigned reading materials (journal articles and relevant sections from the supplementary references in pdf format), and announcements.

This website is a supplement to the class; you are responsible for all material presented in class whether or not it appears on the web site.

 

Course Objectives:

This course will introduce classical optics from first principles at a first-year graduate level. The theory of electromagnetic, geometric, and physical optics is systematically presented, and forms the base for further study in guided wave optics, electro- and acoustic-optics, nonlinear optics, lasers, and quantum optics.

 

Grades:

Homework 15%

Exam 1 40%

Exam 2 45%

Homework: SET 1 SET 2 SET 3 SET 4 SET 5 SET 6 SET 7 SET 8 SET 9

The homework is an essential part of the course. You should attempt all the problems yourself, but you may argue with your colleagues about the basic ideas underlying the problems. (Simply copying each other's solutions is, however, counterproductive for all parties, and contrary to the honor code.) In addition, each problem will have one student assigned to write up a "textbook" solution to go on reserve. These solutions should go beyond the usual homework solution, in that special care should be given to the presentation and discussion of the logic of the solution. The reserve solutions should be typed, or at least very carefully handwritten, and correct! In science, the communication of arguments and results is nearly as important as the results themselves, so this should be good practice. (Also, each of your reserve solutions will be scored on a scale of 0-10 and included in your final grade calculation.)Homework solutions will be posted on the class website.

Syllabus PDF

Lecture Notes:

Lecture 1 PDF WORD (Sept. 14)

Lecture 2 PDF WORD (Sept. 14)

Lecture 3 PDF WORD   (Sept. 15)

Lecture 4 PDF WORD    (Sept. 15)

Lecture 5 PDF WORD  (Sept. 21)

Lecture 6 PDF WORD (Sept. 21)

Lecture 7 PDF WORD  (Sept. 22)

Lecture 8 PDF WORD  (Sept. 22)

Lecture 9 PDF WORD (Sept. 29)

Lecture 10 PDF WORD (Sept. 29)

Lecture 11 PDF WORD  (Oct. 12)

Lecture 12 PDF WORD  (Oct. 12)

Lecture 13 PDF WORD (Oct. 13)

Lecture 14 PDF WORD  (Oct. 13)

Lecture 15 PDF WORD  (Oct. 19)

Lecture 16 PDF WORD  (Oct. 19)

Lecture 17 PDF WORD (Oct. 20)

Lecture 18 PDF WORD (Oct. 20)

Lecture 19  PDF WORD  (Oct. 26)

Lecture 20 PDF WORD  (Oct. 26)

Lecture 21 PDF (Oct. 27)

Lecture 22 PDF (Oct. 27)

Lecture 23 PDF (Nov. 2)

Lecture 24 PDF (Nov. 2)

Lecture 25 PDF (Nov. 3)

Midterm(Nov. 9)

Lecture 26 PDF  (Nov. 10)

Lecture 27 PDF  (Nov. 10)

Lecture 28 PDF  (Nov. 16)

Lecture 29 PDF WORD  (Nov.16)

Lecture 30 PDF WORD (Nov.17)

Lecture 31 PDF WORD (Nov.17)

Lecture 32 PDF WORD (Nov.23)

Lecture 33 PDF WORD (Nov.23)

Lecture 34 PDF WORD (Nov.24)

Lecture 35 PDF WORD (Nov.24)

Lecture 36 PDF WORD (Nov.30)

Lecture 37 PDF WORD (Nov.30)

Lecture 38 PDF WORD (Dec.1)

Lecture 39 PDF WORD (Dec.1)

Lecture 40 PDF WORD (Dec.7)

Lecture 41 PDF WORD (Dec.7)

Lecture 42 PDF WORD (Dec.8)

Lecture 43 PDF WORD (Dec.8)

Lecture 44 PDF WORD (Dec.14)

Lecture 45 PDF WORD (Dec.14)

Lecture 46 PDF WORD (Dec.15)

Lecture 47 PDF WORD (Dec.15)

Lecture 48 PDF WORD (Dec.21)

Lecture 49 PDF (Dec.21)

Lecture 50 PDF (Dec.22)

Lecture 51 PDF (Dec.22)

Lecutre 52 PDF

Lecture 53 Ultrafast Spectroscopy

Lecture 54 Image Formation (Reading Materials)