# Optics

## PHYS-2620

An introduction to the properties of light and its interactions with matter. Topics include wave, particle, and ray treatments of light; geometrical optics and imaging systems; interference and diffraction; polarization; and Fourier methods for imaging and pulses. A laboratory is included.

4 credits
Prereqs:
one of:
PHYS-1200 Physics II PHYS-1250 Intro Electromag Theory
and
MATH-2400 Intro Diff Equations

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| Spring | Summer | Fall
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| (Session 1) | (Session 2) |
2024 | Fundamentals Of Optics (4c) Shawn Yu Lin Seats Taken: 6/15 |  |
2023 | Fundamentals Of Optics (4c) Shawn Yu Lin Seats Taken: 10/15 |  |
2022 | Fundamentals Of Optics (4c) Esther Alexandra Wertz Seats Taken: 9/10 |  |
2021 | Fundamentals Of Optics (4c) Esther Alexandra Wertz Vincent Meunier Seats Taken: 10/12 |  |
2020 | Fundamentals Of Optics (4c) Moussa Ngom Seats Taken: 14/48 |  |
2019 | Fundamentals Of Optics (4c) Moussa Ngom Seats Taken: 26/48 |  |
2018 | Fundamentals Of Optics (4c) Masashi Yamaguchi Seats Taken: 15/48 |  |
2017 | Fundamentals Of Optics (4c) Peter Persans John Schroeder Seats Taken: 14/24 |  |
2016 | Fundamentals Of Optics (4c) Peter Persans John Schroeder Seats Taken: 14/41 |  |
2015 | Fundamentals Of Optics (4c) Peter Persans John Schroeder Seats Taken: 7/41 |  |
2014 | Fundamentals Of Optics (4c) Peter Persans John Schroeder Seats Taken: 11/41 |  |
2013 | Fundamentals Of Optics (4c) Peter Persans John Schroeder Seats Taken: 18/41 |  |
2012 | Fundamentals Of Optics (4c) Peter Persans John Schroeder Seats Taken: 26/41 |  |
2011 | Fundamentals Of Optics (4c) Peter Persans John Schroeder Seats Taken: 38/41 |  |
2010 | Fundamentals Of Optics (4c) Sang-Kee Eah Seats Taken: 10/41 |  |
2009 | Fundamentals Of Optics (4c) Sang-Kee Eah Seats Taken: 25/41 |  |
2008 | Fundamentals Of Optics (4c) John Schroeder Seats Taken: 30/46 |  |
2007 | Fundamentals Of Optics (4c) John Schroeder Seats Taken: 19/46 |  |
2006 | Fundamentals Of Optics (4c) John Schroeder Seats Taken: 19/46 |  |
2005 | Fundamentals Of Optics (4c) John Schroeder Seats Taken: 16/46 |  |
2004 | Fundamentals Of Optics (4c) Aleksey I Filin Seats Taken: 12/46 |  |
2003 | Fundamentals Of Optics (4c) Fundmentals Of Optics Roland Kersting Seats Taken: 24/71 |  |
2002 | Fundamentals Of Optics (4c) Roland Kersting Seats Taken: 20/50 |  |
2001 | Fundamentals Of Optics (4c) Roland Kersting Seats Taken: 5/50 |  |
2000 | Fundamentals Of Optics (4c) Peter Persans Seats Taken: 14/50 |  |
1999 | Fundamentals Of Optics (4c) Xi-Cheng Zhang Seats Taken: 4/50 |  |
1998 |  |  |