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00. Introduction and overview: how to understand quantum mechanics

07. Development of quantum spin

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Optical aberrations: ray aberrations, wavefront error, Seidel, Abbe sine condition, Zernike

06. Development of Schrodinger's equation

05. Development of Heisenberg's matrix mechanics

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04. Development of early quantum mechanics (before Schrodinger equation)

03. Blackbody radiation, thermodynamics of a photon gas, Wien's law, Planck's radiation law

Numerically simulating the propagation of coherent optical fields (Fourier optics)

How does a hologram work? (in 1 minute)

(SoME1) Imaginary numbers with real applications: complex exponentials and Euler's formula

University level introductory optics course

02. Kinetic theory, statistical mechanics

01. Thermodynamics: Carnot engine, Entropy, Helmholtz/Gibbs free energy

Special relativity and electrodynamics (covariance, metric tensor, field tensor, potentials)

3D imaging and lensless imaging: light field camera/display, holography, and phase retrieval

09. Optics and Mechanics (Feynman path integral, Born series, Hamiltonian optics, Wigner function)

08. Photon polarization and quantum computing (Shor's algorithm, Grover's algorithm)

07. Quantum optics (Schrodinger equation, harmonic oscillator, coherent states, photon statistics)

00. Introduction and overview (models of light: rays, scalar waves, polarized waves)

06. Light at an interface (Fermat's principle, evanescent waves, Fresnel equations)

05. Polarization (Jones vectors and matrices, partial polarization, Stokes parameters)

03. Diffraction Integrals (Fresnel + Fraunhofer propagation, Point Spread Function, Fourier optics)