Revision as of 12:22, 23 January 2014

Course Information

Professor: Chip Durfee

Office: Meyer Hall 330

Meeting Times: Tuesday, Thursday 11:00-12:15.

Room: Berthoud 204

Announcements

2014-01-22:

Homework 2 is posted - due in class Thursday 30 Jan.

2014-01-16: Updated lecture notes.

Homework 1 is posted - due in class Tuesday 21 Jan.

If you are new to Mathematica, try looking for tutorials on the Wolfram site. I can also help during office hours.

16 Jan: Welcome to the new Wiki page for Fourier Optics! The syllabus is posted below.

Office hours

Office hours:

Tuesday 2-4, Physics Library, Wed 1-3, Thursday 1-2. On Wednesdays, I sometimes have a phone meeting that will require shifting the office hours for that day.

Course Material

Syllabus and Reading List

These downloads require Adobe Acrobat Reader Syllabus for the course

Fourier Transform ID sheets and other reference material

Note that the conventions (sign, 2 pi, ...) are different for the t-omega and x-fx domains.

These downloads require Adobe Acrobat Reader Fourier transform ID sheet, t-omega domains

Homework Assignments

These downloads require Adobe Acrobat Reader Homework 1, due in class 21 Jan Homework 2, due in class Thursday 30 Jan

Lecture Notes

These downloads require Adobe Acrobat Reader Class 1: intro to Fourier optics, transform pairs Class 2: FT IDs and symmetry relations Class 3: examples, Parseval and convolution theorem. See ListConvolve.nb below

Demonstration of convolution of various functions. See other tabs for notes about convolutions.

Mathematica Demos

You can use these as a template for programming you want to do. I would like you to attribute me when you do though.

These aren't actually pdf's. Do a "save link as" to save these to your computer, then open with Mathematica. In most cases the output has been deleted to save server space, so you have to run the code to see the output.

Please note that thee is a bug in the Fourier[ ] routine (FFT) in v7.0.0. This does not show in earlier versions, and was fixed in 7.0.1 and later. (9.0.1 is the current version)

These downloads require Adobe Acrobat Reader List convolve demo.nb: demonstrate both analytical and numerical convolutions fft demo.nb: demonstrate numerical Fourier transforms (FFT)

some older files (written in v5.2. These will be updated soon and posted above.)

These downloads require Adobe Acrobat Reader NL prop code

Links to literature in Fourier optics

Each one of you should add references you think would be of general interest to this list - a minimum of one every other week.

Click 'edit' at the right to add references. Include a short description, make a new category if it makes sense. Links only - don't upload actual pdf's please. Put your last name and posting date along with the citation.

Feel free to add to the list of database and journal sites. The list below is old - let me know if any of the links are dead.

Journal Database pages

Use these to go to papers where you know the reference, or for searching for related papers

Scitation: American Institute of Physics journals search

Optics Infobase: Optical Society of America journal search

CSM link to physics-related databases. In particular, try Web of Science (online Science Citation Index). This is the best resource for finding papers that are related to each other. I think our access goes back 10 years from present.

Google Scholar

Journal pages

You can go to these to browse current issues or to look up specific references.These journal are (mostly) European journals not indexed through Scitation or Optics Infobase. Go to OpticsInfoBase for Optics Letters, Josa A and B, Optics Express, Applied Optics, etc.

Applied Physics B

Journal of Physics B

Optics Communications

Journal Articles

Development of the theory, historical

this is a sample link

• Midwinter et al, British J. Applied Phys v16 p1135 (1965) "The effects of phase matching method and of uniaxial crystal symmetry on the polar distribution of second-order non-linear optical polarization" Derivation of the variation of dEff in nonlinear crystals with beam direction. (Durfee 1/12/2007) Midwinter (1965)

Other course Links

Signals and Systems | MIT OpenCourseWare

JavaOptics: a nice collection of optics-related demonstrations

Fabry-Perot demonstration

Falstad.com: some nice optics demos