Lectures and workshops

The default literature is Orfanidis. Two extra chapters from other sources are used, indicated by "Sj" for Sjöberg, and "BRI" for Bondeson, Rylander, and Ingelström, see the link Course material to the left. Also, the topic of beams is covered only in lecture notes.

The workshops are for your own work with the course material, mostly using a computer but also pen and paper. They will be held in the computer room E:4119 on the 4th floor of the  E-building. Some selected problems from Orfanidis are (several are computer experiments using his matlab codes):

1.3, 1.4, 1.5, 1.6, 1.11a-d, 2.3, 2.11, 2.19, 2.23, 2.29, 3.4, 3.5, 3.6, 3.13, 3.15, 4.5, 4.8, 4.11, 4.13, 5.1, 5.5, 5.7, 5.11, 6.1, 6.11, 6.17, 6.18, 7.8, 7.10, 7.12, 8.3, 8.7, 8.10.

Note that there is a solutions manual for the first two chapters on Orfanidis' web site, and some short answers and hints can be found here. Also note the many useful appendices in Orfanidis' Chapter 23 (physical constants, vector identities, integral theorems etc).

Frequent use is made of demonstration programs. If you want to run these for yourself, you need to install python (free software), and some additional packages, see the link Download to the left.

A particularly extensive demonstration program EMANIM has been written by Andras Szilagy. It is available with source code in python or as a compiled .exe program for windows. With this program you can visualize the propagation and polarization of electromagnetic waves in isotropic, anisotropic, and optically active media.  

 

	Date	Topic	Material
L1a	30/8	Introduction, Maxwell's equations, boundary conditions, conservation laws	Ch 1.1-1.8, slides
L1b	1/9	Material modeling, constitutive relations	Ch 1.9-1.18, slides, materialmodels.py
W1	2/9	Workshop: Modeling of materials	Instructions, example.m, sphere.mph
L2a	6/9	Phenomenology of wave propagation	Ch 2.1-2.5, Sec. 1&2 in Sj, slides
L2b	8/9	Propagation in lossy media, complex waves, beams	Ch 2.6-2.12, slides, interface.py, perfectlens.py
W2	9/9	Workshop: Propagation of plane waves	Instructions, propconst.m, visualization.m
L3a	13/9	Finite differences in the time domain (FDTD)	BRI 5.1-5.2, slides, fdtd1d.py
L3b	15/9	Scattering problems with FDTD, pulse propagation	BRI 5.3, Ch 3.1-3.4, slides, slabscatt_fdtd.py, pulsedispersion.py
W3	16/9	Workshop: FDTD (handin work)	handin2.pdf, pml.m
L4a	20/9	Pulse propagation in dispersive media	Ch 3.5-3.11, slides, pulsedispersion.py
L4b	22/9	Propagation in birefringent media	Ch 4, slides, EMANIM
W4	23/9	Workshop & demonstration lab: Propagation in dispersive and birefringent media	Instructions, propconst2.m, visualization2.m
L5a	27/9	Reflection and transmission	Ch 5, slides, slabscatt_fdtd.py, multilayerdemo_oblique.py
L5b	39/9	Multilayered structures 1	Ch 6.1-6.5, slides, multilayerdemo_oblique.py
W5	30/9	Workshop: Propagation in multilayer and band gap structures	Instructions, multidiel.m (in ewa.zip available at Orfanidis' site)
L6a	4/10	Multilayered structures 2	Ch 6.6-6.8, slides
L6b	6/10	Oblique incidence 1	Ch 7.1-7.10, slides, interface.py
W6	7/10	Workshop: project work	Instructions
L7a	11/10	Oblique incidence 2	Ch 7.11-7.16, slides, interface.py, movie
L7b	13/10	Multilayer film applications	Ch 8, slides, multilayerdemo_oblique.py, frustrated.py, perfectlens.py
	13/10	Project presentations 1.
W7	14/10	Project presentations 2.
	17/10-	Oral exams (time decided individually).