Advanced techniques utilizing vector calculus, series expansions, contour integration, integral transforms (Fourier, Laplace and Hilbert) asymptotic estimates, and second order differential equations.

BUILDING: GRGEN | ROOM: 108

PREREQUISITES: ME 201, 202 and permission of instructor

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BUILDING: GAVET | ROOM: 312

The goal of this course is to learn how to model, analyze and simulate stochastic systems, found at the core of a number of disciplines in engineering, for example communication systems, stock options pricing and machine learning. This course is divided into five thematic blocks: Introduction, Probability review, Markov chains, Continuous-time Markov chains, and Gaussian, Markov and stationary random processes.

BUILDING: GAVET | ROOM: 206

PREREQUISITES: ECE242 or equivalent

The course covers the following topics: emission of thermal radiation, modeling of optical propagation (radiometry), quantifying the human perception of brightness (photometry) and of color (colorimetry), fundamentals of noise in detection systems, parameters for specifying the performance of optical detectors, and a survey of several specific types of detectors. References: Boyd, Radiometry and the Detection of Optical Radiation; Kingston, Detection of Optical and Infrared Radiation.

BUILDING: WILMT | ROOM: 116

This course will introduce the student to the physical, chemical and optical properties of liquid crystals (LC) that are the basis for their wide and successful exploitation as optical materials for a broad variety of applications in optics, photonics and information display. Topics to be presented include: origins of LC physical properties in thermotropic and lyotropic materials as a function of chemical structure, influence of these structure-property relationships on macroscopic organization in LC mesophases, and the effect of molecular ordering and order parameter on properties of special significance for device applications. Operating principles for LC devices in a wide variety of applications will be described, including passive and tunable/switchable polarizers, wave plates, filters, information displays and electronic addressing, electronic paper, color-shifting polarizing pigments, optical modulators, and applications in photonics and lasers

BUILDING: HYLAN | ROOM: 102

The course is designed to give the student a basic understanding of the optical communication systems while making them aware of the recent technological advances. The following topics are covered: components of an optical communication system, propagation characteristics of optical fibers, lightwave sources such as light-emitting diodes and semiconductor lasers, optical receivers, noise analysis and bit error rate, coherent communication systems, multichannel communication systems, soliton-based communication systems. References: J. C. Palais, Fiber-Optics Communications, Prentice- Hall; E. E. Bert Basch, Optical-Fiber Transmission, Sams; Agrawal and Dutta, Long-Wavelength Semiconductor Lasers, Van- Nostrand Reinhold; Miller and Kaminow, Optical Fiber Telecommunications II, Academic.

BUILDING: GRGEN | ROOM: 417

Freeform optics is an emerging technology that a broad industry community anticipates will permeate optical systems of the future. This course will define and reveal the history of freeform optics. After an overview on freeform optics that will span design, fabrication and optical testing, the course will then review the theory of optical aberrations for rotationally symmetric system with an emphasis on the field dependence of the aberrations, before introducing Nodal Aberration Theory that was developed in the 1980s for systems that depart from rotational symmetry. Design concepts will then be presented, including the aberrations of freeform optics. Examples of freeform optics designs will be presented. The sensitivity of freeform optics systems to misalignment and form errors will then be discussed. Guest lectures on the mathematics of freeform optics for manufacture, and optical fabrication and testing will be included as possible.

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This course is designed to give the student a basic working knowledge of image-forming optical systems. The course is oriented towards problem solving. Material covered includes: image formation, raytracing and first-order properties of systems; magnification, F/number, and numerical aperture; stops and pupils, telecentricity vignetting; telescopes, microscopes, magnifiers, and projection systems; the Delano diagram; the eye and visual systems, field lenses; optical glasses, the chromatic aberrations, and their correction; derivation of the monochromatic wavefront aberrations and study of their effects upon the image; third order properties of systems of thin lenses; effects of stop position and lens bending; aplanatic, image centered, and pupil centered surfaces; and field flatteners. References: Smith, Modern Optical Engineering, McGraw-Hill; Lecture notes.

BUILDING: WILMT | ROOM: 116

This course covers fundamental ray optics that are necessary to understand today’s simple to advanced optical systems. Included will be paraxial optics, first-order optical system design, illumination, optical glasses, chromatic effects, and an introduction to aberrations. References: Hecht, Optics (4th edition); Smith, Modern Optical Engineering; Lecture notes.

BUILDING: GRGEN | ROOM: 108

This course focuses teaching the multidisciplinary aspects of designing complex, precise systems. In these systems, aspects from mechanics, optics, electronics, design for manufacturing/assembly, and metrology/qualification must all be considered to design, build, and demonstrate a successful precision system. The goal of this class is to develop a fundamental understanding of multidisciplinary design for designing the next generation of advanced instrumentation. This course open to graduate students in engineering and physics backgrounds although it has a strong emphasis on mechanical engineering and systems engineering topics. This course is open to undergraduates who are in their senior year.

BUILDING: HYLAN | ROOM: 102

Optical interference in a multilayer stack and its application to anti-reflection coatings, beamsplitters, laser mirrors, polarizers, and bandpass filters.

BUILDING: GAVET | ROOM: 312

PREREQUISITES: OPT 262

This course is intended as an overview to the design and analysis of illumination systems along with an introduction to the use of Light Tools software. The classes alternate between lectures on an illumination topic, which includes many examples, and a working lab learning skills in Light Tools. The Lecture/Labs would be complimentary so that the skills developed in using the software reinforce the topics covered in the Lectures.

BUILDING: GAVET | ROOM: 208

PREREQUISITES: OPT 241, OPT225 recommended

Physics and implementation of X-ray, ultrasonic, and MR imaging systems. Fourier transform relations and reconstruction algorithms of X-ray and ultrasonic-computed tomography, and MRI.

BUILDING: DEWEY | ROOM: 2110D

PREREQUISITES: ECE242

This laboratory course (3 hours per week) exposes students to cutting-edge photon counting instrumentation and methods with applications ranging from quantum information to nanotechnology,biotechnology and medicine. Major topics include quantum entanglement and Bell’s inequalities, single-photon interference, single-emitter confocal fluorescence microscopy and spectroscopy, photonic bandgap materials, Hanbury Brown and Twiss interferometer, and photon antibunching. Each lab also includes lecture and discussions of lab materials.

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This is an intensive laboratory course with experiments that likely included the following: 1. Transverse and axial mode structure of a gas laser. 2. Detector calibration using a blackbody. 3. Production of a white light viewable transmission hologram. 4. Acousto-optic modulation. 5. Twyman-Green interferometry. 6. Optical Fibers Laser. 7. The Pockels cell as an optical modulator. 8. Optical beats (heterodyning) and CATV. 9. The YAG laser and second harmonic generation. 10. Fourier optics and optical filtering. 11. Lens Evaluation. 12. Modulation Transfer Function. 13. Applications and properties of pulsed dye laser. 14. Holographic optical elements. 15. Properties of Gaussian beams.

BUILDING: WILMT | ROOM: 504

The principles of physical optics including diffraction and propagation based on Fourier transform theory; integral formulation of electromagnetic propagation; diffraction from apertures and scattering objects; applications to optics of Fourier transform theory, sampling expansions, impulse response, propagation through optical systems, imaging and transforming, optical transfer function, optical filtering; and selected topics of current research interest. Text: Goodman, Introduction to Fourier Optics, 4th Ed.; class notes

BUILDING: WILMT | ROOM: 116

PREREQUISITES: Prerequisites: Undergraduate electromagnetic theory, advanced calculus, linear algebra.

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BUILDING: WILMT | ROOM: 116

This course provides the practicing optical engineer with the basic concepts of interference, diffraction, and imaging. Each topic will be reinforced with real-world examples. The interference section will include interferometry, Fabry-Perot etalons, and multilayer thin films. The diffraction and imaging sections will include, but are not limited to, diffractive optics, continuous and discrete Fourier transforms, convolution theory, and Linear Systems. References: Hecht, Optics (4th edition); Goodman, Introduction to Fourier Optics; Lecture notes.

BUILDING: GRGEN | ROOM: 109

PREREQUISITES: Advanced Calculus, Linear Algebra

Various types of typical nanophotonic structures and nanomechanical structures, fundamental optical and mechanical properties: micro/nano-resonators, photonic crystals, plasmonic structures, metamaterials, nano-optomechanical structures. Cavity nonlinearoptics, cavity quantum optics, and cavity optomechanics. Fundamental physics and applications, state-of-art devices and current research trends. This class is designed primarily for graduate students. It may be suitable for senior undergraduates if they have required basic knowledge.

BUILDING: CSB | ROOM: 523

PREREQUISITES: ECE 230 or 235,/435; OPT 262 or 462, or 468, or 223, or 412; PHY 237, or 407

Fundamentals and applications of optical systems based on the nonlinear interaction of light with matter. Topics to be treated include mechanisms of optical nonlinearity, second-harmonic and sum- and difference-frequency generation, photonics and optical logic, optical self-action effects including self-focusing and optical soliton formation, optical phase conjugation, stimulated Brillouin and stimulated Raman scattering, and selection criteria of nonlinear optical materials. References: Robert W. Boyd, Nonlinear Optics, Second Edition.

BUILDING: GRGEN | ROOM: 417

PREREQUISITES: OPT 461 or OPT 462

The course will cover the behavior of light in integrated waveguide devices. The course will feature in-class demonstrations, integrated photonic device design, and device testing in a laboratory setting. We will review Maxwell’s Equations and cover topics such as optical modes, planar waveguides, optical fibers, rectangular waveguides, coupled-mode theory, mode coupling, resonators, modulators, and numerical methods for integrated photonic device design. During this class you will learn the fundamentals of integrated photonics, design an integrated photonic device, and test and analyze its performance.

BUILDING: WILMT | ROOM: 116

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THz technology session provides the fundamentals of free-space THz optoelectronics for sensing, imaging and spectroscopy applications. A free-space THz-ray optoelectronic system, with diffraction-limited spatial resolution, femtosecond temporal resolution, DC-THz spectral bandwidth, and mV/cm field sensitivity, will be central to the course. We will cover the basic concepts of generation, detection and propagation of T-rays, and their applications. Students will learn how up-to-the-minute results in THz laboratories apply to research and development. Students will learn advanced systems with THz time-domain spectroscopy, optical rectification, electro-optic sampling, THz gas laser, Gunn diodes and Schottky diodes, and FTIR. Many newly developed THz systems at Rochester will be the examples used in this course. Ultrafast Phenomena session covers the methods for optical measurement with short laser pulses. Short laser pulse generation, amplification, detection, and characterization will be discussed.

BUILDING: GRGEN | ROOM: 417

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Subject matter to be selected from topics of current interest in quantum optics. (same as OPT 553).

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Complex zoom lenses and multi-mirror reflective systems are discussed detail starting with first principles. Other topics include materials for other wavelength bands, tolerancing, sensitivity analysis, monte carlo analysis, ghost and stray light analysis. Students required to complete two complex group design projects.

BUILDING: GRGEN | ROOM: 509

PREREQUISITES: OPT 444

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BUILDING: GRGEN | ROOM: 509

Classical and quantum mechanical theories of the interaction of light with atoms and molecules, with emphasis on near resonance effects, including coherent nonlinear atomic response theory, relaxation and saturation, laser theory, optical pulse propagation, dressed atom-radiation states, and multi-photon processes. (same as OPT 551).

BUILDING: B&L | ROOM: 269

PREREQUISITES: PHY 401, PHY 402, PHY 407, PHY 408, PHY 415 or permission of instructor

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