Course abstract

Optics is a core discipline in science. There has been a remarkable upsurge in Optics in view of technological advancement, rapidly growing applications in the broad area of optics and photonics encompassing all sectors of civil, defense, biomedical research, signal processing and instrumentation. In the proposed course we plan to bring up the basic characteristics of electromagnetic propagation in material media of isotropic/anisotropiclinear/nonlinear nature, propagation in layered structures and waveguides. The interaction of light waves with intervening media that give rise to various phenomena, namely the electro-optic, magneto-optic, acousto-optic effects will be discussed in the platform of the underlying physics. The course will offer a comprehensive background in understanding several device applications based on these light-matter interaction properties. The course is designed for thegraduate students having a basic background of the electromagnetic theory.The course is also useful for the M. Tech and Ph.D students aiming at research and developmental projects in the broad area of Optics and Photonics.