Lecture Schedule
Sept 8-11: Complex waves, wave polarization.
Sept 22-25: Plane wave spectral representation for EM fields, waves at planar interface: normal incidence, multiple planar interfaces, waves at oblique angle, TE polarization, phase matching condition, reflectance and transmittance.
Sept 29-30: TM polarization, brewster angle, critical angle, total internal reflection,
Oct 5-9: Paraxial waves, Gaussian beam and its characteristics, Gaussian beam at the interface, Goos-Hänchen shift, scalar and vector potential, gauges, construction of solutions.
Oct 13-16: General characteristics of waveguides, mode orthogonality, dispersion diagram, uniform rectangular waveguide, waveguide resonator.
Oct 19-23: Material slab waveguide, Modal expansion of fields, capacitive junction, coax-to-waveguide junction, cylindrical metallic waveguide.
Oct 27-28: Cylindrical dielectric waveguide, optical fiber.
Nov 10-13: Optical fiber, introduction to Green’s function.
Nov-17: Application of Green's function.