PRINCIPLES OF PHOTONICS AND OPTICAL ENGINEERING.

Catalog description

Optical fields with applications to laser, optical fibers, and photonic signal processing. Encoding, manipulating, transmitting, storing, and retrieving information using light. Light propagation including isotropic and birefringent optical media, dielectric interfaces, interference and diffraction, Gaussian beams, optical cavities and principles of laser action, optical waveguides and fibers, electro- and acousto- optic modulation. Design, analysis and application of optical devices in communications and signal processing.