Notes (most recent update)
- Organization and administrivia (8/22/22)
- Mathematical and physical background (8/25/22)
- Optimization methods (8/25/22) (video of lecture)
- Finte Difference Time Domain (FDTD) (9/19/2022)
- Ray and Gaussian beamlet tracing (9/13/2022)
- Fourier propagation (9/20/2022)
- Born approximation and k-space (10/4/22)
- Tomography (11/3/22)
- FFT Beam Propagation (11/3/22)
- Waveguide mode propagation (11/3/22)
- Bloch modes (11/3/22)
- General eigenmode expansion (11/3/22)
- Coupled mode equations (11/3/22)
Recorded lectures
Scattering via k-space
Tomography
Phase retreival
- Phase retrieval discussion (10/20/22)
- Intro to phase retreival
- Gerchberg Saxton algorithm
- Gerchberg Saxton example
- Optical trapping example
- Maleki Devaney algorithm
Beam propagation method
- Intro to BPM part 1
- Intro to BPM part 2
- Intro to BPM part 3
- Intro to BPM part 4
- BPM demonstrations
- Curved surfaces
- Curved surfaces - sampling limit
- Absorbing boundary conditions
- Absorbing boundary conditions and conservation of power
- Step size derivation
- Step size demonstration
- Curved spaces e.g. waveguides