Prerequisites: senior standing; ME 010, ME 110, ME 170A
Description: Focuses on principles of optics and lasers, wave equations, interferometry, diffraction, laser-material interactions. Applications in analytical characterization including confocal microscopy, Raman spectroscopy, mechanical deformation analysis, scanning probe microscopy, ultraviolet-visible spectrophotometry, photoluminescence, optical detectors, and lasers in materials processing.