Subject Code: PH7L002 Subject Name: Applied Photonics Technology L-T-P: 3-0-0 Credit: 3
Pre-requisite(s): Nil
Review of basic optics, Polarization, Reflection and refraction of plane waves, Diffraction: diffraction by single slit and circular aperture, Gaussian beams, Fiber Optics; Fourier optics: Interference: two-beam and multiple beam interference, Fabry-Perot interferometer; Interaction of radiation with matter, light amplification; Laser rate equations, three level and four level systems; Optical Resonators, resonator stability; mode selection; Q switching and mode locking in lasers: Properties of laser radiation and some laser systems.
Text Books/Reference Books: 
  1. Saleh B. E. A. and Teich M.C., Fundamentals of Photonics, Wiley-Interscience.
  2. Hecht E., Optics, Addison-Wesley.
  3. Yariv A., Photonics, Oxford University Press, USA.
  4. Ghatak A. and Thayagrajan K., Optical Electronics, Cambridge University Press.
  5. Ghatak A. and Thayagrajan K., An Introduction to Fiber Optics, Cambridge University Press.
  6. Feynmann R., Lectures on Physics, Basic Books.