OPTICAL WAVE PROPAGATION

Planar, rectangular and cylindrical waveguides. Resonators. Fresnel coefficients. Internal and external reflection. Optical waveguides (planar waveguide, optical fibers, approximation of weakly guided waves). Step index and gradient index optical fibers. Dispersion of optical fibers. Thin dielectric films, band pass, low pass and high pass optical filters. Interference Fabry-Perot filters. Fabry-Perot and Michelson interferometers. Matrix methods in paraxial optics (transfer functions of thin and thick lens and optical systems). Propagation of laser beam through optical system. Light scattering by thin homogeneous cylinders and homogeneous spherical particles. Transport of optical waves through atmosphere.