Optics continues to play a central role in answering the most profound scientific questions of our time. Optics is at the heart of many of the world's most powerful scientific instruments, enabling modern telescopes to achieve previously unimaginable resolution, and probing general relativity with a global network of gravitational wave detectors. This course includes interferometry, electro-optic modulation, light detection, quantum noise, nonlinear optics, photonics and the use of lasers. Expert guest lecturers will describe the application of these techniques to fields such as space science and nanophotonics. The course will also provide critical experimental skills with optical instrumentation needed for many areas of research. This course is the core 3rd year optics course and complements PHYS3031 which focuses on the concepts of atom-light interaction.

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Examination (30%) Laboratory (30%) Assignment (30%) Case-study (10%)

Approximately 30 lectures, 6 tutorials, and 18 hours of laboratories

Prerequisite: PHYS2017

Incompatible: PHYS3057

Recommended PHYS2016

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