| Main | Syllabus | Schedule | D2L | Dr. Sahyun |
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Tentative Schedule*:
* I reserve the right to modify this schedule if necessary.
| Class | Date | Topic | Assigned Reading Pages | Book Sections | Assignment | Tentative Lab Schedule | |
| 1 | T | 6-Sep | Introduction, wave description | 21-31; 44-47 | 2.5 - 2.8, 3.2 | ||
| 2 | R | 8-Sep | Light | 47- 81 | 3.3 - 3.6 | H1 | Lab 1: Speed of Light |
| 3 | T | 13-Sep | Reflection; Refraction; TIR | 111 - 131 | 4.6 - 4.8 | H2 (3.13 -3.58) | |
| 4 | R | 15-Sep | Lenses | 149 - 171 | 5.1 - 5.2 | H3 (4.37 - 4.82) | Lab 2: Optical Alignment |
| 5 | T | 20-Sep | Mirrors | 171 - 186 | 5.3 - 5.4 | H4 (5.1 - 5.43) | |
| 6 | R | 22-Sep | Prisms and Fibers | 187 - 201 | 5.5 - 5.6 | H5 (5.43 - 5.68) | Lab 3: Fiber Optics |
| 7 | T | 27-Sep | Midterm 1 | Midterm 1 | |||
| 8 | R | 29-Sep | Optical Systems | 201 - 233 | 5.7 - 5.8 | H6 (5.69 - 5.74) | Lab 4: Prism Spectrometer |
| 9 | T | 4-Oct | Matrix lens eq. and Aberrations | 243 - 273 | 6.1 - 6.3 | H7 (5.74 - 5.91) | |
| 10 | R | 6-Oct | BEC reading. | H8 (6.1 - 6.29) | OUT OF TOWN | ||
| 11 | T | 11-Oct | Wave addition | 281 - 302 | 7.1 - 7.2 | ---- | |
| 12 | R | 13-Oct | Field Trip: Marquette Nobel Lecture BEC | ---- | |||
| 13 | T | 18-Oct | Paper presentations 1 | Paper 1 | |||
| 14 | R | 20-Oct | Guest Cody Kreischer, Kreischer Optics | http://www.kreischer.com/ | ---- | Lab 5: Thick Lenses | |
| 15 | T | 25-Oct | Superpostion and Fourier transform | 302 - 320 | 7.3 - 7.4 | H9 (7.1 - 7.32) | |
| 16 | R | 27-Oct | Polarization I | 325 - 347 | 8.1 - 8.5 | H10 (7.33 - 46) | Lab 6: Polarization |
| 17 | T | 1-Nov | Polarization II | 348 - 365 | 8.6 - 8.10 | H11 (8.1 - 8.26) | |
| 18 | R | 3-Nov | Interference | 385 - 400 | 9.1 - 9.3 | H13 (8.27 - 8.72) | Lab 7: Newton's Rings |
| 19 | T | 8-Nov | Midterm 2 | Midterm 2 | |||
| 20 | R | 10-Nov | Interferometers | 400 - 425 | 9.4 - 9.6 | H14 (9.1 - 9.16) | Lab 8: Interferometers |
| 21 | T | 15-Nov | Thin films and AR | 425 - 438 | 9.7 - 9.8 | H15 (9.17 - 9.24) | |
| 22 | R | 17-Nov | Diffraction - single; multi slit | 443 - 464 | 10.1 - 10.2.4 | H16 (9.25 - 9.48) | Lab 9: Slit Diffraction |
| 23 | T | 22-Nov | Aperatures and resolution | 464 - 476 | 10.2.4 - 10.2.7 | H17 (10.1 - 10.18) | |
| 24 | R | 24-Nov | Thanksgiving Break | ||||
| 25 | T | 29-Nov | Paper presentations 2 | Paper 2 | |||
| 26 | R | 1-Dec | Diffraction grating and Fresnel | 476 - 509 | 10.2.8 - 10.3 | H18 (10.19 - 10.28) | Lab 10: Fraunhofer diffraction |
| 27 | T | 6-Dec | Lasers | 581 - 606 | 13.1 | H19 (10.29 - 10.45) | |
| 28 | R | 8-Dec | Spatial Filtering | 606 - 623 | 13.2 | H20 13.1 - 13.28) | Lab 11: Spatial Filtering |
| 29 | T | 13-Dec | Holography | 623 - 644 | 13.3 | H21 (13.29 - 13.43) | |
| 30 | R | 15-Dec | Review | Lab 12: Holograms | |||
| 31 | T | 20-Dec | Final 3:15 - 5:15 | Final | |||