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Course Description

ECE559 - Fundamentals of Optics for Electrical Engineers

Class: ECE559 - Fundamentals of Optics for Electrical Engineers
Description: Introduction to diffraction and 2D Fourier optics, geometrical optics, paraxial systems, third order aberrations, Gaussian beam propagation, optical resonators, polarization, temporal and spatial coherence, optical materials and nonlinear effects, electro-optic modulators. Applications to holography, optical data storage, optical processing, neural nets, associative memory optical interconnects. Graduate-level requirements include different exam questions and/or grading.

Credits: 3
Professor(s): Kelly Potter
Schedule: 1100AM-1150AM MWF ECE 107

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