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2020-2021 Undergraduate Catalog 
    
2020-2021 Undergraduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

PHYS 3800 - Optics


4 Credit Hours

Prerequisites: PHYS 2212K with grade of C or higher.
Corequisites: None.
Pre/Corequisites: None.
Requirements: None.

Description
Three lecture hours and one two hour laboratory per week Fundamentals and applications of opticdiffraction, interference, lasers, fiber optics, and applications of optical instrumentation. Lectures cover fundamentals and applications of wave and ray opticimage formation, diffraction, interference, polarization, spectroscopy, lasers, fiber optics and applications of optical instrumentation. Laboratories will develop more fully topics covered in lectures.