Lecture Notes

Lecture 1     Geometrical Optics: Fermat's Principle

Lecture 2     Geometrical Optics: Three key rays, Paraxial approximation

Lecture 3     Geometrical Optics: paraxial approximation, Matrix formalism

Lecture 4     Geometrical Optics: Aberrations, Optical Systems

Lecture 5     Waves

Lecture 6     Electromagnetic Plane Waves in Vacuum

Lecture 7     Electromagnetic Plane Waves in Simple Dielectrics, Absorption

Lecture 8     Two Beam Interference

Lecture 9     Interferometers, Multiple Beam Interference

Lecture 10     Laser rate equations

Lecture 11     Light-Matter interactions, Einstein coefficients

Lecture 12 & 13     Gaussian Beams

Lecture 14     Polarization: Jones Calculus

Lecture 15     Polarization: Stokes Parameters, Poincaré Sphere, and Unpolarized Light

Lecture 16     Fresnel Equations

Lecture 17     Diffraction - Introduction, Single Slit Frauenhofer Diffraction

Lecture 18     Scalar Diffraction Theory/Fourier Optics: Rayleigh-Sommerfeld & Fresnel diffraction

Lecture 19     Frauenhofer diffraction, Airy disk, Fourier optics (4f-system)

Lecture 20     Dispersion - Lorentz and Drude Model (+ NIM Metamaterial)

Lecture 21     Dispersion & Causality - Kramers Kronig relations, Einstein causality

Lecture 22 & 23     Fast and Slow Light: Of Dispersion, Causality, and Information Velocities