Advanced E&M - Quantum Optics and Confined Structures

Douglass Schumacher Phone: 292-7035 Office: 4180, Physics Research Building. Office hours: MWF 9:30 to 10:30 am; and by appointment. dws@mps.ohio-state.edu Gregory Lafyatis Phone: 292-2286 Office: 4186, Physics Research Building. Office hours: TBA and by appointment. lafyatis@mps.ohio-state.edu Physics 8820 (29231) TR @ 9:35 - 10:55 Tuesday: PRB 4122 Thursday: PRB 2128 Grader: J. McEwen Text: None required.

Schumacher will cover quantum optics based largely on The Quantum Theory of Light by Loudon. Lafyatis will cover confined structures based largely on Principles of Nano-optics by Novotny and Hecht. Free e-book version here. Second edition due out soon.

Announcements

Aug 23. Welcome!

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Homework

(dws - QO component)
Solutions on Carmen.

#1	Here is some help for 1.4.
#2	As described in the solution set, the wikipedia pages on "binomial coefficients" and "multiset" are helpful.
#3	Here is the link referred to in the assignment.
#4
#5
#6
#7

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Applets and Links From Various Sites (mostly for other classes I've taught, so far)

Concepts treated in class

Fermat's Principle	Illustrated for reflection and refraction.
Physlets Optics	Physlets are physics applets. Good ones for our class are the virtual optics bench, thin films, and polarization. More are available here Try them.
Fourier Synthesis	Uses your speakers so you can hear the result.
Group velocity and phase velocity	Simple illustration of how a wave looks when differing speeds are used. Try it at the highest frequency and follow the motion near the node in the envelope function.
Group Velocity Demonstration	Allows you to superpose two arbitrary waves specified using C-like syntax.
Subluminal	Illustrates how a pulse can appear to propagate faster than light. (The author should have named it "superluminal" I suppose.) I like this one.

Chip Durfee teaches a laser course with some great optics links. I've copied them here.

Java Optics
Fabry-Perot demonstration
Diffraction by slits
Propagating waves

Great Links

Olympus Microscopy Resource Center (OMRC)	Excellent tutorials on many subjects relevant to our class, including both articles and interactive components.
OMRC - Lenses	See especially the sections on aberrations. Many of the lecture figures were taken from here.
OMRC - Vision	I don't cover this much, but only because of time limits. I enjoy learning about the physiology and neuralogy of vision more than the physics.

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General Links (under construction...)

Societies	Journals	Articles
Laser Tutorials	For the Hobbyist

Societies

OSA -- Optical Society of America

IEEE -- Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

SPIE -- The International Society for Optical Engineering

Journals (for the topics covered in class, my favorites are Optics Letters, JOSA B, and IEEE JQE)

OSA Online Journals   Applied Optics, JOSA A, JOSA B, Optics Express, and Optics Letters.

IEEE Journal Of Quantum Electronics

Optics and Photonics News

Laser Focus World

Photonics

The Industrial Physicist (American Institute of Physics) often has articles of importance to lasers and optics.

Articles
This is a new section. I'll place a few, selected articles that might help the student who is looking for the next step beyond class.

Science magazine has a special issue on coherence. See it here.

Laser Tutorials

Rami Arieli - The Laser Adventure - extensive, with discussion of a variety of applications.

For The Hobbyist (yes, there is a large community that enjoys building its own lasers)

The Homebuilt Lasers Page

The Laser, Optics and Holography Ring