Wave Optics and Electrodynamics

This course builds on the electromagnetism and waves course taken in the second year of college.

Strengthen understanding of the wave theory of light: propagation, interference, and diffraction.

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

Oscillations and waves, differential and integral calculus, electrostatics, magnetostatics, and electromagnetism in a 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: an introduction to macroscopic fields.

- Theory of the dielectric constant, Drude and Lorentz models,

- Maxwell's equations in matter, potentials, gauge fields…

- Introduction to the Optics of Anisotropic Media

- Electromagnetic energy

- Wave packet propagation, guidance, scattering

CM: 31.5 hours

TD: 31.5 hours