PHYS 424/524: Classical and Modern Optics: News

This document will be updated throughout the course. Check back here often for updates.

Wed Mar 22 10:54:30 PST 2006
Final Exam Study Guide, Final Exam, and Final Exam Solutions posted online.

Mon Mar 20 16:22:56 PST 2006
Homework 6 Solutions and Homework 7 Solutions posted online.

Tue Mar 14 14:05:06 PST 2006
Lecture 26 notes posted online.

Mon Mar 13 21:10:41 PST 2006
Midterm 2, Midterm 2 Solutions, and Homework 5 Solutions posted online.

Mon Mar 13 08:47:54 PST 2006
Lectures 24 and 25 notes posted online.

Sat Mar 11 23:04:55 PST 2006
Lectures 21, 22, and 23 notes posted online.

Sat Mar 11 19:33:15 PST 2006
Homework 7 and Homework 4 Solutions posted online.

Fri Mar 3 15:03:40 PST 2006
I've posted your midterm feedback with comments online.

Thu Mar 2 23:37:16 PST 2006
Lectures 19 and 20 notes posted.

Tue Feb 28 22:51:37 PST 2006
Remember that class tomorrow (1 March) is cancelled, with an evening exam at 6:30 instead. Good luck!

Tue Feb 28 20:06:28 PST 2006
Lecture 14 notes corrected and re-posted to fix typo in Gouy phase term in the Hermite-Gaussian beam electric field expression.

Tue Feb 28 12:20:13 PST 2006
Lectures 10 and 11 notes corrected and re-posted to fix figure typo errors (in application of Stokes relation to Mach-Zehnder interferometer). Thanks to Matt Ritter for pointing this out.

Mon Feb 27 15:06:20 PST 2006
Homework 6 corrected and re-posted. The first expression for the Gaussian beam should have an extra factor of exp(ikz). Lecture 13 notes corrected and re-posted to fix the same thing.

Mon Feb 27 10:32:07 PST 2006
Homework 6 and Midterm 2 study guide posted online.

Sun Feb 26 12:58:36 PST 2006
Note corrections to Lecture 14 notes: correction to index on Hermite polynomial in the electric field expression for the Hermite-Gaussian mode. Also, the recurrence relation for the Hermite polynomials had a typo in one index; it's fixed now.

Fri Feb 24 10:26:06 PST 2006
Note corrections to Lecture 13 notes (ABCD Law). In the two examples (sections 6.5.6 and 6.5.7 in the combined notes or 1.6 and 1.7 in the individual document), I had the wrong minus sign for the imaginary parts of the q parameter, compared to the beginning of the section (thanks to Jonathan Hanni for pointing this out). This is an artifact of using the different phase convention compared to Saleh and Teich. Otherwise, all the end results are the same. If you lost homework points due to confusion from this point, be sure to let me know.

Sun Feb 19 13:18:58 PST 2006
Lecture 17 and 18 notes posted online.

Sun Feb 19 10:45:05 PST 2006
Lectures 15 and 16 notes posted online.

Wed Feb 15 18:23:45 PST 2006
Midterm 1 study guide, Midterm 1, and Midterm 1 key posted online.

Mon Feb 13 08:49:47 PST 2006
Homework 3 Solutions, Homework 5, Lecture 12, Lecture 13, and Lecture 14 notes posted online.

Sun Feb 5 11:13:43 PST 2006
Homework 4 and Lectures 10 and 11 notes posted online.

Sun Jan 29 23:39:06 PST 2006
Lecture 9 notes posted online.

Fri Jan 27 13:28:30 PST 2006
Lecture 7 and 8 notes and Homework 2 solutions posted online.

Tue Jan 24 12:56:21 PST 2006
Lecture 5 and 6 notes, Homework 3, and Homework 1 solutions posted online. Also, minor correction to Lecture 3 notes (Eq. (24) or Eq. (2.36) in the combined version).

Thu Jan 19 10:57:39 PST 2006
Lecture 4 notes and Homework 2 posted online. Henceforth, lecture notes will also be available in a combined version, updated whenever new lecture notes are posted.

Thu Jan 12 23:22:28 PST 2006
Lecture 2 and Lecture 3 notes now posted online.

Mon Jan 9 12:00:03 PST 2006
Lecture 1 notes now posted online.

Sun Jan 8 16:50:08 PST 2006
Web site is now functional, and Homework 1 now posted online.