Modern Optics Podcast
Recorded class lectures from Peter Beyersdorf's Physics 158 (Modern Optics) class at San Jose State University from the Spring of 2008. Recordings will be added twice a week on Tuesdays and Thursdays.
- Update frequency
- every 5 days
- Average duration
- 67 minutes
- Episodes
- 20
- Years Active
- 2008
More Fiber Optics
We discuss unconventional types of fibers including photonic crystal fibers
00:58:59 |
Thu 03 Apr 2008
Fiber Optics
We introduce the basic principles and parameters associated with fiber optics
01:17:20 |
Tue 01 Apr 2008
Coherence
We introduce the coherence function and look at the relationship between coherence, bandwidth and linewidth.
00:57:13 |
Thu 20 Mar 2008
Fourier Analysis
Fourier Series are introduced and are generalized to the Fourier sine and cosine tansform
01:15:55 |
Tue 18 Mar 2008
Fabry-Perot Interferometer
We look at the transmission of a Fabry-Perot interferometer and discuss properties like the free spectral range, finesse and linewidth.
01:16:09 |
Thu 13 Mar 2008
Michelson Interferometer
We investigate the Michelson interferometer and the relationship between physical parameters and the interference term.
01:15:35 |
Thu 28 Feb 2008
Two beam interferencde
We look at the interference term present when two waves interfere and discuss the effect coherence has on fringe visibility
01:14:37 |
Tue 26 Feb 2008
Group and Phase velocity
We look at the difference between group velocity and phase velocity in a dispersive material and introduce the Fourier transform
01:15:09 |
Thu 21 Feb 2008
Superposition
We investigate the behavior of multiple waves that overlap in space and time.
01:14:48 |
Tue 19 Feb 2008
Thick Lenses
We introduce thick lenses and discuss parameters necessary to describe them. We go on to introduce ray matrices.
01:14:54 |
Thu 14 Feb 2008
Ray Matrices
We look at methods for solving imaging problems using ray matrices.
01:13:24 |
Thu 07 Feb 2008
Thin Lenses
We introduce the thin lens equation and the lens makers formula and the concept of ray tracing.
01:16:58 |
Tue 05 Feb 2008
Fermat's Principle and Huygen's Principle
We Introduce Huygen's principle and Fermat's principle and use them to derive Snell's law and the law of reflection.
01:15:14 |
Fri 01 Feb 2008
The Nature of Light
Modern Optics provides a framework for understanding and analyzing optical
wave propagation, interference, polarization and diffraction effects. This
framework is essential for those who will work…
01:16:38 |
Thu 24 Jan 2008
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