Chem620: Resources


Chi, 2010.


  1. I.      Nature of Light  (Discussion Templates)                                                                                             

a.EMR Basics

        i.    Maxwell’s Equations

        ii.Field expressions in a vacuum

        iii.   Wave properties

          b.  Radiometric Units                                                                                           

        i.Source units vs receiver units

        ii.Pt source vs extended source

        iii.Inverse square law

        iv.Irradiance vs intensity

        v.Spectral units

II.Radiation Sources & Detectors

a.Sources

i.Incoherent Sources (very brief)

ii.Lasers

iii.Other Coherent Sources

b.Radiation Detectors

i.Figures of merit

ii.PMT

iii.Semiconductor Detectors

iv.Multichannel Detectors

v.Multiplex Detectors

III.The interaction of light with matter

a.Field expressions in a dielectric

b.Transient dielectric polarization

c.Dispersion & Absorption

d.Real and imaginary refractive index

e.Imaginary refractive index and absorption

f.Molar absorptivity

g.Irradiance (revisited)

h.Nonlinear interactions

IV.Light at Interfaces

a.Reflection, refraction and polarization

        i.    Snell’s law

        ii.Fresnel equations

        iii.Polarizers (Control of polarization)

V.Imaging

  1. a. Lenses

  2. b.Microscopes

  3. c.Fiber Optics

  4. d.Curved Mirrors

VI.Interference and diffraction

  1. a. Constructive/Destructive Interference

i.    Interference Filter

ii.    Fabry-Perot interferometer

1.Resolution/resolving power

2.Throughput

iii.Michelson interferometer (need compensator)

iv.Gratings

1.Simple gratings

2.Holographic gratings

3.Transient gratings

a.Acousto-optic filters

VII.Fourier transform spectroscopy

a.Michelson interferometer

        i.Electric field at detector

        ii.Irradiance at detector

        iii.Irradiance as function of Δz => FT

        iv.FT examples

                1.3 ν oscillation

                2.3 ν oscillation w/ bandwidth

b.Fourier Transform spectroscopy

        i.Fourier Transform Basics

                1.FT expressions: sine, cosine, complex

                2.Forward & inverse

                3.Examples of “uncertainty” relations

                        a.Heisenberg

                        b.Power supply surge => radio static

                        c.Gaussians

                        d.Filter performance

        ii.Frequency components of library functions

                1.Transform linearity

                2.Simple library functions

                        a.Cosine, sine

                        b.Window, Sinc

                        c.Table A

                        d.Filtered square wave

        iii.Complex representations of Fourier transformations

VIII.Discrete Fourier transform and noise

  1. a.Numerical Fourier transformation

  2. b.Noise

  3. c.Types classified by

i.     Frequency

ii.    Source

iii.    Signal dependence