Instructors: Philippe PIOT (piot@nicadd.niu.edu)
Class meeting: Tuesdays and Thursdays 10 am to 12 pm
Textbook: No textbook required.
Last updated: Mon Dec. 8, 2008
Course catalogue description
Quantum Optics and lasers. Topics in nonlinear optics, to include frequency
doubling crystals, parametric crystas, acoustic scattering. Fourier optics.
Kirhoff-Fresnel theory of diffraction. Other contemporary topics at discresion
of instructor PRQ: PHYS 370 and some knowledge of geometric optics.
Grading