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2022-2023 Undergraduate and Graduate Catalog 
    
2022-2023 Undergraduate and Graduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

PHYS 576 - Modern Optics with Laboratory


(3 units)

Prerequisite: PHYS 340A .
(Undergraduates enroll in PHYS 476 ; graduates enroll in PHYS 576.) Propagation of electromagnetic waves, optical resonators, laser spectroscopy and operation, optical phase conjugation, nonlinear optics and selected application. Experiments illustrating principles and techniques of electro-optics and laser physics. Applications include optical methods in communications, atomic spectroscopy, and nonlinear optics.

Letter grade only (A-F). (Lecture 2 hrs laboratory 3 hrs). Double Numbered with: PHYS 476