Quarters of Offering Credits Level Class Meeting Au Qtr. Courses that require this as a direct 917 4. Students learn analytical techniques applied to optics, starting from the basic electromagnetic beginning. Students learn to recognize and interpret basic mathematical expressions of wave optics, and understand and predict simple hologram behavior. Students learn to calculate simple diffraction patterns in the absence and presence of lenses, and will learn applications of diffraction including optical spatial filtering.
Students learn to use ray matrix optics and conceptually relate ray optics to wave optics.