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2023-2024 Undergraduate and Graduate Catalog 
    
2023-2024 Undergraduate and Graduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

PHYS 476 - 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 576