Wave Optics and Electrodynamics

This UE is a continuation of the electromagnetism and waves courses taken in L2.

Reinforce mastery of the wave theory of light: propagation, interference, diffraction.

Understand and solve Maxwell's equations in material media to model various phenomena of propagation, guidance, diffraction and scattering of electromagnetic radiation.

Oscillations and waves, differential and integral calculus, electrostatics, magnetostatics, and electromagnetism in vacuum

100% CT

Wave optics

- Two-wave interference, temporal and spatial coherence, multi-wave interference

- Huygens-Fresnel principle, Fresnel and Fraunhofer diffraction

- Networks and spectroscopy

- Fourier optics (spatial filtering, strioscopy)

- Gaussian propagation

Electrodynamics of media

- Polarization and magnetization of matter: introduction of macroscopic fields.

- Dielectric constant theory, Drude and Lorentz models,

- Maxwell's equations in matter, potentials, gauges...

- introduction to the optics of anisotropic media

- Electromagnetic energy

- Wave packet propagation, guiding, scattering

CM: 31.5 h

TD: 31.5 h