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