PHYSICAL OPTICS II GATE/CSIR-NET/B-tech 1st year handwritten notes

Description

Topics which are covered in these notes are mentioned below:

1) INTERFERENCE :

a) Basics of interference

b) Interference in thin films

c) Parallel thin films

d) Wedged shaped films

e) Newtons’s rings

f) Michelson interferometer

g) Fabry-Perot interferometer

2) DIFFRACTION :

a) Fraunhofer diffraction

b) Fresnel diffraction

c) Resolving power of telescope

3) Polarization :

a) Polarization by reflection and transmission

b) Brewster’s law, Double refraction, Nicol Prism

c) Elliptically and circularly polarised light

d) Quarter and half wave plates