OSE6115 - Interference, Diffraction and Coherence

Textbooks:

• B. E. A. Saleh and M. C. Teich, “Fundamentals of Photonics”
• J. W. Goodman, “Introduction to Fourier Optics”
• A. Papoulis, “Systems and Transforms with Applications in Optics”
• G. O. Reynolds, J. B. Develis, G. B. Parrent, B. Thompson, “The New Physical Optics Notebook: Tutorials in Fourier Optics”
• J. W. Goodman, “Statistical Optics”
• J. D. Gaskill, “Linear Systems, Fourier Transforms, and Optics”

Syllabus:

1. Review of the Fourier transform
2. Review of electromagnetic, wave propagation, and the plane-wave angular spectrum
3. Two-beam interference: Mach-Zehnder interferometer, Michelson interferometer, Sagnac interferometer
4. Double slit-interference
5. Multiple-beam interference
6. Rayleigh-Sommerfield diffraction
7. Fresnel and Fraunhofer diffraction
8. Introduction to Fourier optics
9. Diffraction limited optical imaging
10. Diffraction Gratings
11. Introduction to coherence theory
12. Second-order spatial and temporal coherence
13. Effect of coherence on optical imaging