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Oct 24, 2011
Winter 2012: EECS 598-001 Nano-Optics    Bookmark and Share
Course No.: 598-001
Credit Hours: 3
Instructor: John Schotland
Prerequisites: Graduate standing

Course Description:
Classical and quantum optics of the near-eld. Review of Maxwell's equations. Evanescent waves and radiation theory in the near eld. Lorentz model and optics of metals. Green's functions and plane-wave decompositions. Diffraction from small holes and arrays of small holes. Scattering from point scatterers and spheres. Method of coupled dipoles. Surface plasmons and plasmon polaritons. Near-eld microscopy. Coherence theory in the near-eld. Review of eld quantization. Spontaneous emission and Wigner-Weisskopf theory. Purcell effect. Fluorescence near surfaces. FRET. Casimir effect. The course is meant to be accessible to engineering and physics graduate students.   [Read More]
 
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