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Instructors: Yodh

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Summary: Modern Optics is designed for upper level undergraduate physics students, but it is likely to be of use to a broader community including electrical engineers, chemistry undergraduates and beginning graduate students whose research involves light scattering. The first two thirds of the course focus on understanding the properties of light using rigorous, mostly pre-20th century ideas, but focusing on modern applications. The final third of the course emphasizes the quantum mechanical basis for light-matter interactions (including the semiclassical model of the laser.) The course assumes familiarity with electricity and magnetism at the level of Maxwell's equations, and familiarity with elementary quantum mechanics. Some familiarity with Fourier Transforms is useful but not essential. In addition to lectures, students will have the opportunity to supplement the theory with laboratory experiments.