Optical radiation and matter

Optical Radiation and Matter provides a deeper look at electricity and magnetism and the interaction of optical radiation with molecules and solid materials. The focus is on developing an understanding of the sources of light, how light moves through matter, and how external electric and magnetic fields can influence the way light waves propagate through materials.

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1. Review of electromagnetic radiation -- 1.1. Historical introduction -- 1.2. Maxwell's equations in free space -- 1.3. The free-space wave equation -- 1.4. Phase and group velocity -- 1.5. Energy flux -- 1.6. Resonator electric field -- 1.7. Problems

2. Polarization of light -- 2.1. Historical introduction -- 2.2. Polarization of light waves -- 2.3. Jones vector representation of polarization states -- 2.4. Optical elements and Jones matrices -- 2.5. Longitudinal field components -- 2.6. Problems

3. Radiation and scattering -- 3.1. Historical introduction -- 3.2. Summary of Maxwell's equations -- 3.3. Potential theory and the radiating EM field -- 3.4. Radiation from a dipole -- 3.5. Scattering -- 3.6. Polarization of Rayleigh scattered light -- 3.7. Radiation in the Coulomb gauge -- 3.8. Problems

4. Absorption and line broadening -- 4.1. Historical introduction -- 4.2. Extinction by a dipole -- 4.3. Field from a sheet of dipoles -- 4.4. Propagation in a dilute medium -- 4.5. Beer's law -- 4.6. Broadening -- 4.7. Absorption spectroscopy experiment -- 4.8. Problems

5. Macroscopic electrodynamics -- 5.1. Historical introduction -- 5.2. The local field -- 5.3. The macroscopic M…