Explores the photon concept in electromagnetic waves, including energy, momentum, emission by charges, coherence length, and the electromagnetic spectrum.
Explores coherence and interferometry principles, including statistical optics, autocorrelation functions, and optical coherence tomography applications.
Explores electromagnetic wave propagation, including Poynting vector, irradiance, dipole radiation, dielectric constant, and natural linewidth in atoms and radiation.
Covers the nature of electromagnetic waves, including plane waves and photons, their wavelength, period, and dispersion relationship, and the electromagnetic spectrum.