New Fall Courses You May Find of Interest
Check out these courses for something new or interesting! Find brief descriptions of all our college's courses here.
OPTI 497B Technical Writing and Communication
A new addition to the 597B course, making it available to BS OSE junior-seniors.
This class will review principles and procedures of technical communication, including written reports, journal articles, theses/dissertations, poster presentations, oral presentations, resumes/CVs, abstracts, funding proposals, and elevator pitches. Elements of basic grammar, style, and organization will be emphasized.
OPTI 575 Thin Films and Photonics
A previously available course, it has now been modified and is being reintroduced by Prof. Bob Norwood.
Thin film optics are critical to a broad range of applications ranging from eye wear to lasers to lithography. The course will cover the optical properties of thin films, design of multilayer optical coatings, accurate calculation methods, physical mechanisms used for the growth of thin films, and critical optics and photonics applications of thin film coatings.
OPTI 596-002 Computational Imaging and Machine Vision Seminar
Being offered for the second Fall in a row, this course is taught by Prof. Florian Willomitzer and offered to graduate students in optics, ECE, CS, and similar fields.
The course explores the emerging new fields of computational imaging and machine vision, which combine ideas from technical optics, Fourier optics, information theory, image processing, imaging, graphics, and vision. State-of-the-art topics in computational imaging and machine vision will be introduced in a “part-lecture, part-seminar” -style that gives the students the opportunity to contribute actively and to sharpen their presentation skills. Course Website | OPTI 596-002
OPTI 647A Photonic Gaussian Information
A brand new course offering! Taught by Prof. Daniel Soh.
This course provides a strong foundation in continuous-variable quantum information, utilizing the recently established Gaussian Quantum Information formalism. It examines the two main approaches in quantum information science. The first, discrete-variable, involves defining qubits from discrete quantum states, while the second, continuous-variable, uses observables with continuous quantities. Recent developments have shifted focus to continuous-variable quantum information using boson fields like photons and phonons. This new paradigm is facilitated by existing photonic devices such as amplitude and phase modulators, and homodyne detectors. The course explores photonic fields through second quantization, emphasizing Gaussian quantum information, which impacts areas like computation, communication, sensing, and quantum machine learning.