Week 1: Basics concepts: Wave propagation, Wave equation and its solution, Maxwell’s wave equation, Plane wave solution, Spherical and cylindrical waves-a full mathematical descriptions.
Week 2: Superposition of waves, Standing and propagation waves, Superposition of waves with different frequency: Beat formation, Concept of wave-packet, group and phase velocity
Week 3: Material Dispersion, Group delay, Concept of coherence: Temporal and Spatial, Light interference, outline of double slit experiment, Amplitude splitting interference
Week 4: Multiple beam interference, Michelson interferometer, Febry-Perot interferometer, Newtons Rings
Week 5: Diffraction of light, The Huygens-Fresnel Principle, Kirchhoff’s diffraction theory, Fraunhofer and Fresnel type diffraction
Week 6: Diffraction calculations: Single slit, Double slits, multiple slits, Rectangular aperture
Week 7: Diffraction from circular aperture, Airy disc, Resolving power of different instruments.
Week 8: Fresnel Diffraction: Fresnel half period zones, Circular aperture and Vibration spiral, Straight slit, Fresnel’s integrals and Cornu spiral. Fresnel diffraction at a straight edge.
Week 9: Concept of polarization: Linear, circular and elecptic polarization, Polarisation by reflection and refraction, Polarisation of scattered light.
Week 10: Malus’s Law, Dichroic polarisers. Birefringence, Uniaxial and Biaxial crystals, O-ray and E-ray
Week 11: Velocity ellipsoids, Nicol prism, Babinet’s Compensator, Optical activity.
Week 12: Mathematical Description of polarization: The Stokes parameter, Jones matrix formalism and problems. Practical applications of the wave optics
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