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Lecture—3 hours; discussion—1 hour. Discussion and demonstrations of optical science and engineering principles and applications. Discussion of the opportunities and professional practice in the field including ethics and responsibilities.—I. (I.) Baldis, Cramer, Orel
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Lecture—3 hours; laboratory—3 hours. Prerequisite: Mathematics 21C (may be taken concurrently), Physics 9A (may be taken concurrently), Computer Science Engineering 30. Role of mathematics in modeling physical, biological, and engineering phenomena. Pitfalls in computation. Limitations of models, numerical implementations, and quality assessment of computational data. Interactions among mathematics, algorithms, computer hardware and software, and selected scientific and engineering applications.—III. (III.)
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Discussion—1 hour. Prerequisite: lower division standing; consent of instructor. May be repeated for credit. (P/NP grading only.)—I, II, III. (I, II, III.)
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Prerequisite: consent of instructor and lower division standing. (P/NP grading only.)
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Prerequisite: consent of instructor. (P/NP grading only.)
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Lecture—3 hours; laboratory—3 hours. Prerequisite: Physics 9C and Mathematics 21D. Optical properties of matter, the nature of light, reflection, refraction, and other properties of light. Basic optical components, reflecting systems, and dispersive components. Geometrical optics, ray tracing, and optical aberrations. Optical instruments. The color of light.—I. (I.) Baldis, Kolner
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Lecture—3 hours; laboratory—3 hours. Prerequisite: course 108A. Introduction to wave theory of optics, including Maxwell’s equations and boundary condition, reflection and transmission coefficients, interference, diffraction, polarization, thin film and ultra thin film optics, and radiation from extended distributions of oscillating electric dipoles. Applications of wave optics. Not open for credit to students who have completed Physics 108 and 108L.—II. (II.) Baldis, Kolner
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Discussion—1 hour; laboratory—6 hours; extensive problem solving—3 hours. Prerequisite: courses 108A, 108B. Practical applications of principles of geometrical and physical optics. Optical properties of materials, imaging, lens fabrication, interferometry, polarization, photometry, polarization, diffraction and propagation. Small course fee for materials.—III. (III.) Kolner
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Lecture—3 hours; discussion—1 hour. Prerequisite: Engineering 6 or Computer Science Engineering 30, and Mathematics 22B. Computer problem solving, including error analysis, roots of equations, systems of equations, interpolation and data fitting, integration; initial value, boundary value, and eigenvalue ordinary differential equations. Emphasis on robust methods to solve realistic problems.—I. II, III. (I, II, III.)
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Lecture—3 hours; laboratory—3 hours. Prerequisite: course 115. Application of computers to the solution of physical problems. Numerical solution of elliptic, parabolic, and hyperbolic partial differential equations. Eigenvalue problems. Monte Carlo methods.—III. Jensen, Cramer, Miller, Orel, Laub, McCurdy, Rodrigue
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Lecture—3 hours; laboratory—3 hours; extensive problem solving—3 hours. Prerequisite: course 2, 116; Physics 104A. Numerical techniques for simulation and modeling of nonlinear deterministic systems. Examples from fluid, continuum, molecular mechanics, low dimensional nonlinear systems. Emphasis on error and stability through adaptive methods, evaluation of relationships between physical systems, the model equations, numerical implementation. Jensen, McCurdy, Miller, Orel, Rocke
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Lecture—3 hours; laboratory—3 hours; extensive problem solving. Prerequisite: Statistics 131A or Civil and Environmental Engineering 114 or Mathematics 131 and course 117A. Simulation of stochastic systems, maps, and deterministic chaos. Stability and error control in stochastic modeling. Fluctuations and dissipation; dynamics of complex and disordered systems; Monte Carlo techniques, Brownian, Langevin, and molecular dynamics. Simulation of meaningful statistical sampling in stochastic and disordered systems.—II. (II.) Miller, Orel, Laub, McCurdy, Rodrique
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Lecture—3 hours; laboratory—3 hours; extensive problem solving. Prerequisite: course 117B. Topics may include algorithms in electromagnetics, materials, biology, and economics. Fast multipole and resummation techniques, algorithms for integral transforms, mesh generation, combinatorics, encryption; data mining, handling, and compression of large data sets; optimization.—III. (III.) Miller, Orel, Laub, McCurdy, Rodrigue
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Lecture—3 hours; laboratory—3 hours. Prerequisite: course 117B (may be taken concurrently). Algorithms for efficient scientific computing on modern high-performance computers; influence on algorithms of distributed computing, memory management, networking, and information flow; managing relationships among computer architecture, software, and algorithms.—II. (II.) Miller, Orel, Laub, McCurdy, Rodrigue
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Lecture—3 hours; discussion—1 hour. Prerequisite: course 115 and Physics 104A. Introduction to computational linear algebra with emphasis on applications in engineered systems; matrix factorizations; mathematical software for fundamental algorithms.—I. (I.) Jensen, Laub
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Lecture—3 hours; lecture/laboratory—3 hours. Prerequisite: course 108A; senior level standing. Optical materials and design of optical systems. Computer assisted design of optical systems including construction and final system characterization. Knowledge and skills acquired in earlier course work are used for designing that include engineering standards and realistic constraints. (Deferred grading only, pending completion of sequence.)—II. (II.) Baldis
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Lecture—3 hours; laboratory—1 hour. Prerequisite: courses 108A, 161A (completed during the previous quarter); senior level standing,. Design of a complete optical system, construction, testing, and calibration. The knowledge and skills acquired in earlier course work are used for designing that includes engineering standards and realistic constraints. Knowledge and skills acquired in 161A are essential. (Deferred grading only, pending completion of sequence.)—III. (III.) Baldis
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Lecture—3 hours; laboratory—3 hours. Prerequisite: Chemistry 110A; Electrical and Computer Engineering 130B. Waves and photons; photon number and fluctuations; field and number correlations; atom-photon interactions; line broadening, Einstein coefficients; strong field interactions; photon bunching and anti-bunching; photoelectric counting distributions for chaotic and coherent light; squeezed states.—I. (I.) Yeh
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Lecture—3 hours; laboratory—3 hours. Prerequisite: course 165. Optical gain and amplification, laser threshold conditions, laser pumping requirements and techniques, laser resonator optics, cavity design, specific laser systems, short pulse generation, Q-switching, mode-locking, principles of nonlinear optics, second harmonic generation. optical parametric amplification, electro-optic effect.—II. (II.) Krol, Yeh
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Lecture—3 hours; discussion—1 hour. Prerequisite: Physics 104A and Electrical and Computer Engineering 130B. Linear systems analysis of two-dimensional optical systems, 2D Fourier transforms, scalar diffraction theory, Fresnel and Fraunhofer diffraction, coherent and incoherent optical systems, spatial frequency analysis, analog optical information processing, spatial light modulators, film, holography, character recognition, and image restoration.—II. (II.) Kolner, Orel, Jensen
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Lecture—3 hours; discussion—1 hour. Prerequisite: course 108B, Engineering 45, and Chemistry 110A. Relation between structure, composition, and optical properties of laser materials, nonlinear optical materials, photorefractives, fiber optics, semiconductors, liquid crystals, and thin films.—III. (III.) Krol, Parikh
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Lecture—3 hours; discussion—1 hour. Prerequisite: Chemistry 110A and course 166. Fundamentals of absorption and emission, spectrometers, interferometers, light sources and detectors, UV, Visible, and IR spectroscopy, fluorescence spectroscopy, Raman and Brillouin scattering, high-resolution laser spectroscopy.—III. (III.) Orel, Kolner, Yeh, Parikh
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Lecture—3 hours; discussion—1 hour. Prerequisite: course 108B, Biological Sciences 2A, and Chemistry 110A. Optical techniques for resolving significant research problems in biology. Examples include the sequence, structure, and movement of DNA; nuclear organization and DNA replication; channel transport; membrane receptor sites and cell fusion; protein-protein interactions and supramolecular organization.—III. (III.) Yeh
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Discussion—1 hour. Prerequisite: advanced standing; consent of instructor. Weekly conference on research problems, progress and techniques in applied science. May be repeated for credit. (P/NP grading only.)—I, II, III. (I, II, III.)
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Internship—3-36 hours. Prerequisite: consent of instructor; upper division standing; approval of project prior to the period of the internship. Supervised work experience in Optical Science Engineering or Computational Applied Science. May be repeated for credit. (P/NP grading only.)—I, II, III. (I, II, III.)
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