Course Outline: OPSE301, Fall 2001

Instructors: Gordon Thomas, Office: 482T, 973/596-3558; email: thomasg@njit.edu

TA's: Kakhkhor Adbijalilou, email: kxa9305@njit.edu

Office Hours: Wed. 4-5:30 pm or by appointment

Course Materials: Optics, 3rd Edition, Hecht

Note: The laboratory manual will be distributed in class or via the world wide web. OPSE web address: www.njit.edu/Directory/Centers/OPSE

OPSE Lab Open Hours: OPSE lab (642-4956) will be open during Monday 11:30-1pm and Weds. 2:30-4pm or by appointment. If the TA is not in the OPSE lab, please see me for key or ask for key in Physics Dept. office.

Assignments: You are responsible for all weekly reading and homework assignments listed in this outline. The reading should be completed BEFORE class each week. Homework assignments must be turned in at the beginning of class each week. For each assignment, you will receive credit for a 'reasonable' attempt at each problem.

Exams: Final Exam (to be announced).

Grades: Final counts as 25% of total course grade. Lab reports count as 60%. Homework counts as 15%.

Grades of below 50% will generally considered to be failing.

Homework Assignments

Week Topic Text Assignment HW Problems Lab assignment
1 Properties of Waves/

Photodetectors

 Ch 1, 2 P:2.1,2.3,2.13,2.15,2.29 Lab 7
2 Index of Refraction/prisms Ch 4.1-4.5 P:4.8,4.16,4.22,4.28,4.31,4.45 Lab 2
3 Mirrors, Lens, Stops Ch. 5 P:5.5, 5.10,5.32,5.39,5.42,5.58 Lab 1 (Demo)
4 Fiber Optics and Sensors Ch. 5.6 P: 5.62, 5.63, 5.64 Lab 14
5 Vibrations/ Waves Ch 7.1-7.2 P: 7.1,7.3,7.9,7.13,7.19,7.23 Lab 13
6 Interference Ch 9 P: 9.1,9.4,9.14,9.24, 9.33,9.41 Lab 13 (cont.)
7 Diffraction Ch 10 P: 10.7, 10.8, 10.10, 10.18, 10.32, 10.35 Lab 10
8 EM Nature of light Ch 3.1-3.4 P: 3.2,3.18,3.20,3.24,3.29 Lab 5
9 Dispersion Ch 3.5-3.7 P: 3.31,3.37,3.41,3.42,3.47 Cont. labs
10 Polarization Ch 8.1-8.4 P: 8.1, 8.9,8.23,8.33,8.37 Lab 3
11 Waveplates Ch 8.5-8.12 P: 8.46,8.47,8.49,8.61 Lab 3 (cont.)
12 Reflection S/P Ch 4.6-4.9 P: 4.55,4.60,4.63,4.65 Lab 4
13 Lasers/Coherence Ch 13.1.2-13.1.3 P: 13.24,13.26,13.43 problem sheet Lab 12
14 REVIEW for FINAL Lab 12 (cont.)

 

Lab Number

Topic

1

 Geometric Optics (a) beam expander (b) microscope

2

 Refraction/ Reflection (a) Snell's Law (b) Total Internal Reflection

3

 Polarization-- Wave plates and polarizers

4

 Reflection -- S/P Polarization

5

 Absorption dye

6*

 Interference -- transmission diffraction grating

7

 Detection of light -- Photodiode detectors

8*

 Dispersion

9*

 Light Scattering of small particles

10

 Diffraction -- Franhoffer diffraction

11*

 Ray Tracing -- Computer lab

12

 Light Sources -- Monochrometers and light sources

13

 Michelson Interferometer

14

 Fiber Optics Principles and Position Sensor

15

 Transmission Spectra


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