University of Southern California
Department of Electrical Engineering
Course Number & Title: EE 599, Modern Optics Laboratory
Units: 3
Semester and time:
Spring semester (Monday, 9-9:50am, laboratory times tbd)
Location: TBD
Instructor:
Martin Gundersen
Office:
SSC 421
Office hours:
Mondays 10-12
Contact information:
mag@usc.edu
Teaching assistant:
TBD
Catalogue Description:
Optical interactions underlying modern optics, experimental engineering and design of
optical systems, optical measurement methods, spectroscopy, Fourier optical transforms,
diffraction.
Course Description:
The Optics Laboratory course addresses the underlying basis for optical systems by
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providing experience and related insight. This is achieved through laboratory experience
with these systems. The course will include optics experiments teaching basic optics,
lenses, diffraction, use of spectrometers, and spectroscopy, as well as additional modern
optics components including properties of lasers, optical fibers, optical communications
and detection. Optical Laboratory teaches the mechanisms that are responsible for the
propagation and properties of light. These interactions underlay modern optics, and will
be fundamental to the understanding of new optical physics and design of optical systems.
Learning Objectives:
EE 599 is designed to provide a basis for industrial optical careers, and to introduce students to
experimental optics and photonics research at USC. At the completion of the subject, students
will be able to fabricate a wide range of optical experimentation systems, and analyze use of the
experimental systems for applications in electrical, biomedical, aero and mechanical, and
materials science and chemical engineering, as well as optical research investications in physics
and chemistry.
Prerequisite: B.S. or equivalent in engineering, physics, or applied sciences.
Grading:
Laboratory Reports, 4 introductory labs
Laboratory Reports, 2 advanced labs
Final Report and Presentation
40%
30%
30%
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