课程大纲
COURSE SYLLABUS
1.
课程代码/名称
Course Code/Title
Principles of Photonics
2.
课程性质
Compulsory/Elective
选修 Elective
3.
课程学分/学时
Course Credit/Hours
3/48
4.
授课语言
Teaching Language
英语 English
5.
授课教师
Instructor(s)
韦齐和(Wei, Qihe)
6.
是否面向本科生开放
Open to undergraduates
or not
Yes
7.
先修要求
Pre-requisites
（如面向本科生开放，请注明区分内容。
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please indicate the difference.）
For graduate students, it is desirable to have taken
courses related to optics. For
undergraduate students, it is required to have taken college physics (PHY105A-B)
and
advanced mathematics (MA102B-C).
8.
教学目标
Course Objectives
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）
This class will be taught in lectures, attendance is required. In addition to homework, graduate students will be assigned to read
recent articles of frontier research related to the topics covered in the class. Undergraduate students will not be required to read
advanced research papers.
9.
教学方法
Teaching Methods
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）
This class will be taught in lectures, attendance is required. In addition to homework, students will be assigned to read rec
ent
articles of frontier research related to the topics covered in the class. Literatures for undergraduate students will be more
concept-oriented.
10.
教学内容
Course Contents
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）
Section 1
Light: waves or photons; ray or wave optics
Section 2
Electromagnetic optics: Lorentzian or Drude model, absorption and dispersion
Section 3
Polarization optics: Jones matrix, Poincare spheres, liquid crystals,
polarization devices
Section 4
Guided-wave optics: waveguides, plasmonics
Section 5
Resonator optics: 1D/2D/3D resonators, density of states
Section 6
Photon optics: momentum, radiation pressure, spin/orbital angular
momentum
Section 7
Light and matter: energy levels, interaction of light with atoms
Section 8
Laser amplifiers: laser amplification, amplifier pumping,
Section 9
Lasers: laser oscillation, characteristics of lasing
Section 10
Nonlinear optics: nonlinear optical media, second harmonic generation,
parametric amplification, parametric oscillation, frequency upconversion
11.
课程考核
Course Assessment
（
○
1 考核形式 Form of examination；
○
2 .分数构成 grading policy；
○
3 如面向本科生开放，请注明区分内容。
If the
course is open to undergraduates, please indicate the difference.）
Grading will be based on (1) performance in class (raising and answering questions, participating in discussions), 10%; (2)
Homework assignments, 30%; (3) Mid-term exam, 30%; (4) Final exam, 30%. Exam questions for undergraduate s
tudents will
be less intensive in mathematics.
12.
教材及其它参考资料
Textbook and Supplementary Readings
(1) Lecture notes by the instructor;
(2) Fundamentals of Photonics by Bahaa E A Saleh and Malvin Carl Teich
(3) Optical Waves in Crystals, by Amnon Yariv, Pochi Yeh
