syllabus <pdf>

Lecture Notes

• Lecture 01 - <pdf> - Plane Waves
• Lecture 02 - <pdf> - Transfer Matrix Formalism
• Lecture 03 - <pdf> - Analytical Properties of Permittivity
• Lecture 04 - <pdf> - Pulses, group velocity, and wavepackets
• Lecture 05 - <pdf> - Reflection from metals; Impedance boundary conditions
• Lecture 06 - <pdf> - Waveguides
• Lecture 07 - <pdf> - Dipole emission
• Lecture 08 - <pdf> - Scattering by small particles
• Lecture 09 - <pdf> - Scattering formalism, Born approximation
• Lecture 10 - <pdf> - Diffraction
• Lecture 11 - <pdf> - Special theory of relativity, 4-vectors
• Lecture 12 - <pdf> - Special theory of relativity, kinematics and covariant representation of EM fields

Supplementary Materials

All files below are matlab scripts/functions. Copy them on your local disk in a separate folder, and run the script. Note that you can change parameters of these files. As of now, these files are primarily aimed as in-class demonstrations, therefore the comments are few if any. Please report any issues with these files

• Electric field of a plane wave with different polarizations <.m> script
• Transfer Matrix Method implementation <.zip> package
  • tmmScriptAng.m - angular dependence of refectance/transmittance
  • tmmScriptLam.m - wavelength dependence of reflectance/transmittance
  • tmmScriptShowField.m - plots field distribution across the layered structure
• Discrete Fourier Transform <.zip> package
• Group vs phase velocity <.m> script, requires DFT
• Reflection/refraction of wavepackets <.m> script, requires DFT and TMM (see above)
• Evolution of beams in rectangular waveguides <.m> script