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2025-2026 Graduate Catalog 
    
2025-2026 Graduate Catalog

PHYS 630 - Advanced Optics


Quantum optics and lasers. Topics in nonlinear optics, to include frequency doubling crystals, parametric crystals, acoustic scattering. Fourier optics. Kirchhoff-Fresnel theory of diffraction. Other contemporary topics at discretion of instructor.

Prerequisites & Notes
PRQ: PHYS 530, PHYS 570, or PHYS 560, or consent of department.

Credits: 3