Courses Handbook 2006 - [Archived]

302888 (v.1) Applied Physics 504


Area:

Department of Applied Physics

Credits:

25.0

Contact Hours:

4.0
 
** The tuition pattern below provides details of the types of classes and their duration. This is to be used as a guide only. For more precise information please check your unit outline. **
 

Lecture:

2 x 2 Hours Weekly
 

Syllabus:

Connections between optics and electromagnetism. Optical properties of materials. Normal and anomalous dispersion. Fresnel's equations. Boundary conditions. Total internal reflection and evanescent wave. Wavefront and amplitude splitting interferometry. Michelson and Fabry-Perot instrumentation. Applications. Diffraction and aperture optics, Fourier transforms, Fourier optics and Fourier spectroscopy. Coherence, fringe visibility, stimulated emission, population inversion, optical pumping, cavity oscillators, intracavity elements, Q-switching and laser systems - solid state, dye, diode, diode pumped, gas and excimer. Jones vector and matrices, Stokes vectors, Mueller matrices, polarising systems. Optical modulators, Kerr and Pockels cells, Faraday rotation and Kerr cell. Fibre optics, holography, optical sources and detectors.
 
** To ensure that the most up-to-date information about unit references, texts and outcomes appears, they will be provided in your unit outline prior to commencement. **
 

Field of Education:

010301 Physics

Funding Cluster:

08 - Engineering, Science, Surveying

SOLT (Online) Definitions*:

Informational
*Extent to which this unit or thesis utilises online information

Result Type:

Grade/Mark

Availability

Year Location Period Internal Partially Online Internal Area External Central External Fully Online
2006 Bentley Campus Semester 1 Y Y      
Area
External
refers to external course/units run by the School or Department or offered by research.
Central
External
refers to external and online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area
Partially
Online
Internal
refers to some (a portion of) learning provided by interacting with or downloading pre-packaged material from the Internet but with regular and ongoing participation with a face-to-face component retained. Excludes partially online internal course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External
Fully
Online
refers to the main (larger portion of) mode of learning provided via Internet interaction (including the downloading of pre-packaged material on the Internet). Excludes online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External

 
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