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2021/2022 University Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

PHYS 553 - Modern Optics Laboratory

Units: 3

One lecture and six hours of laboratory.

Prerequisite(s): PHYS 357  with minimum grade of C; PHYS 406  with minimum grade of C; credit or concurrent registration in PHYS 552 .

Experiments in various fields of modern optics such as holography, physics of lasers, Fourier transform spectroscopy, Raman spectroscopy, light modulation techniques, fiber optics, spatial filtering, diffraction grating spectroscopy, radiometry, and nonlinear optics.