This unit provides part of a major in experimental physics. It consists of laboratory work and three 8-lecture sub-units: Photonics: lasers and coherent light, modulation devices, optical waveguides, interference and holography, fibre optic communications, transmission and coupling to hardware and software devices, applications; Synchrotron physics: radiation from moving charges and charge distributions, generating a synchrotron beam and enhancing its emission characteristics, experimental areas and beams, detectors and analyser, image formation, and Optics: wave propagation and image formation, plane waves, diffraction, angular spectrum, phase contrast, interferometry, holography,... -- Course Website
Instructor: Dr Alexis Bishop
Prerequisites: PHS2011, PHS2022, MTH2032 and either MTH2010 or MTH2015
