PROJECTS

Written reports should be about 10 pages long.  Plan on 15 minutes for your oral presentation.  This should not be just a show and tell, nor the result of reading from a single source, and you may indeed find it helpful to consult an authoritative, technical article.  You will be required to present your topic in a way that you understand, and not focussed entirely on detail, to an audience essentially unfamiliar with the technical aspects of your topic.

Selected topics

Solar Power Satellites
Michael R Chin
Photodynamic Therapy
Heather E Enos
Working with Optical Cavities
Steven Hochman
Theory of Multilayer Films
Alfredo Rodriguez Jr
Fiber Optics or Fourier Optics
Dasan T Sparks
Weather Radar
John D Steffen
Light Scattering by Small Particles
Min Zhong

Suggested topics

Optical Instrumentation
Fiber Optics
Holography
Matrix methods in Paraxial Optics
Optics of the Eye
Aberration Theory
Fourier Optics
Fresnel Equations
Nonlinear optics and the Modulation of Light
Optical Properties of Materials
Selected Modern Applications

Other available topics

Dispersion
Radiometry
Black Body