Optical Coherence and Light-Matter Interactions

Catalog description

This graduate-level introduction to optics helps prepare students for research in cutting-edge optics laboratories and theoretical groups at RIT. Topics include diffraction, nature and propagation of temporal and spatial classical coherence, polarimetry, applications of second-order coherence, two-level systems, classical and semi-classical treatments of light-matter interaction, and selected topics from nonlinear optics.