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PHYS134 HM - Optics Laboratory

Credit(s): 2

Instructor(s): Staff

Offered: Spring

Description: A laboratory-lecture course on the techniques and theory of classical and modern optics. Topics of study include diffraction, interferometry, Fourier transform spectroscopy, grating spectroscopy, lasers, quantum mechanics and quantum optics, coherence of waves and least-squares fitting of data.

Prerequisite(s): PHYS051 HM  and PHYS054 HM