Prerequisites: graduate standing; or consent of instructor

Description: Focuses on advanced understanding of optics. Includes wave equations, interferometry, diffraction, Fourier optics, light-matter interactions, ultrafast and nonlinear optics, and nanophotonics. Frames advanced concepts with experimental and numerical analysis. Applications include smart-phone camera hacks, imaging and microscopy, thin-film and bulk materials characterization, communication systems, spectroscopy, laser machining, and optical trapping.

Credit: May be taken Satisfactory (S) or No Credit (NC) with consent of instructor and graduate advisor. Credit is awarded for one of the following ME 280 or ME 180.