Wave Optics and Electrodynamics

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

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

Understanding and solving Maxwell's equations in material media in order to model various phenomena involving 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, multiple-wave interference

- Huygens-Fresnel principle, Fresnel diffraction, and Fraunhofer diffraction

- Networks and spectroscopy

- Fourier optics (spatial filtering, strioscopy)

- Gaussian propagation

Electrodynamics of media

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

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

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

- introduction to the optics of anisotropic media

- Electromagnetic energy

- Wave packet propagation, guidance, diffusion

CM: 31.5 hours

Tutorial: 31.5 hours