| Date | Lectures | Assignments | ||||
| 09/26 | No class: comp exam | HW 1 | ||||
| 09/28 | No class. Please review EM wave propagation (notes are provided) | |||||
| 09/30 | Elements of diffraction theory. | HW 2 | ||||
| 10/03 | Fourier transforms in optics. | Nature 2008 | Nature 2010 | |||
| 10/05 | Diffraction-limited imaging. | HW 3 | Nature2010 superresolution | Science2007 | Science2006 | NatureMethods2006 |
| 10/07 | Super-resolution. | |||||
| 10/10 | Single molecule spectroscopy. | |||||
| 10/12 | Waveguide optics. | HW 4 | Invisibility cloak | Perfect lens | Left-handed medium | |
| 10/14 | Photonic crystals.Metamaterials. | |||||
| 10/17 | Optical properties of metal nanoparticles and nanostructures. | |||||
| 10/19 | Plasmonics. | HW 5 | Surface plasmon | |||
| 10/21 | No class: NW APS | |||||
| 10/24 | COMSOL Lab. | |||||
| 10/26 | Intro to NLO. Chi(2) and chi(3) effects. | HW 6 | ||||
| 10/28 | QM of NLO susceptibility. | |||||