76 courses with the subject OPTI, each shown exactly as we captured it from the college's catalog, with every element we hold. Where the wording looks broken, that is our reading of the catalog, not the college's text.
Permission of Optics Program Director. Selected topics in optics from areas such as medical optics, adaptive optics, all optical networks, etc. May be repeated for credit with change of topic.
listed Course(s): ECGR 5192. PN-junctions and Schottky junctions. Bipolar and field effect transistors. Optoelectronic and heterojunction devices. Lithography and integrated circuits. Microwave devices. Light emitting devices and detectors. Quantum devices using superlattices. Quantum wells and quantum dots. Material preparation and characterization. Measurement techniques.
Course(s): OPTI 8000. Prerequisite(s): Permission of Optics Program Director. Selected topics in optics from areas such as medical optics, adaptive optics, all optical networks, etc. May be repeated for credit with change of topic.
Engineering (3)
Course(s): OPTI 8201. Prerequisite(s): OPTI 6102 and OPTI 6104. Principles of scalar, Fresnel, and Fraunhofer diffraction theory. Coherent optical data processing. Optical filtering and data processing. Holography. Three lecture hours per week.
listed Course(s): OPTI 8202 and PHYS 6202. Basic principles underlying tissue optics, laser-tissue interactions, and optical imaging, microscopy, and spectroscopy for medical applications.
8203. Metamaterials describes a new field of engineered materials having subwavelength structures, and which have electromagnetic properties not found in nature. Examples include zero and negative index materials which lead to some new applications. Metamaterials are made from "meta-atoms" which are much smaller than the wavelength of the radiation. Meta-atoms are LCR circuits having strong resonant behavior over some chosen bandwidth. The distribution of many such atoms and their mutual interaction determine the bulk metamaterial's properties. Describing these properties draws from electromagnetics, antenna design, atomic and molecular physics and condensed matter physics. At increasingly small scales (i.e., at the nanoscale), both quantum and plasmonic phenomena can play a role.
Course(s): OPTI 8205. Prerequisite(s): OPTI 6104 and OPTI 6105. Molecular optical materials including fabrication methods. Luminescence centers; quenching. Nonlinear optics, including higher order terms of the susceptibility tensor. Photonic crystals. Three lecture hours per week.
Cross-listed Course(s): OPTI 8206. Prerequisite(s): OPTI 6106 or permission of instructor. Design and simulation of optical components and systems using scalar and vector wave propagation, diffraction, and interference. The course is intended to complement OPTI 6241, which focuses on optical lens and system design using geometrical ray-tracing.
Course(s): OPTI 8211. Prerequisite(s): OPTI 6102 or permission of instructor. Fourier analysis and holography, Coherence. Introduction to light production and detection. Optical modulation, including EO effect, Kerr effect, amplitude modulation, magnetooptic effect, photoelastic effect, and acousto-optic effect. Introduction to nonlinear optics. Photonic switching. Three lecture hours per week.
OPTI 8212. Prerequisite(s): OPTI 6102 and OPTI 6104. Theory and application of optical waveguides, free-space micro-optics, and integrated photonic devices. Fabrication and integration techniques, including motivations for choice of approach (hybrid vs. monolithic, materials, size, performance, etc). Modeling and simulation. Students will be required to work with mathematical packages such as Matlab and/or Mathematica to illustrate key concepts and to implement beam propagation/optical modeling simulations. Three lecture hours per week.
Course(s): OPTI 8221. Prerequisite(s): OPTI 6102 and OPTI 6103. Introduction to optical communications and basic communication block such as lasers, optical modulators, and optical transceivers. Review of fibers (attenuation, dispersions, etc.). Optical amplifiers. Passive and active photonic components such as tunable lasers and filters. Coherent and incoherent detection. Signal processing, photonic switching, and point-to-point links / connections. Three lecture hours per week.
listed Course(s): OPTI 8222. Prerequisite(s): OPTI 6221 or graduate standing in ECE, CS, or IT. Optical signal coding, multiplexing and de-multiplexing. Time-domain medium access (TDM (SONET) and TDMA), wavelength-division multiplexing (WDM and WDMA). Optical networks, add- drop multiplexing (OADM), switching and routing technologies, Dispersion management. Optical clock and aduate Catalog 2026-2027
Capstone Course (3 credit hours) A capstone course has a class project component. No capstone course can be double-counted to also satisfy a Concentration or Elective Course requirement. With prior approval from the Associate Chair for Graduate Programs, an offering of MEGR 7892 that includes a project may be approved to count as the required capstone course. Select one of the following:
(3) Cross-listed Course(s): OPTI 8242. Prerequisite(s): OPTI 6102 and OPTI 6104. Advanced study of free space propagation, scattering, and scintillation of Gaussian and uniform beam waves. Random processes, weak fluctuation theory, propagation through complex paraxial optical systems.
Instrumentation. (3) Cross-listed Course(s): OPTI 8244. Prerequisite(s): OPTI 6103 and OPTI 6104. Study of instrumentation used for generation, detection, and manipulation of light in optical circuits. Topics include: ultrashort pulse generation, photon-phonon interactions, 2nd & 3rd harmonic generation, squeezed light, optical tweezers, OPO, electro-optic modulators, selective polarizers, optical switches, amplifiers, multiplexing and mixing schemes, and application of CCD and CMOS cameras and detectors. Three lecture hours per week.
Course(s): OPTI 8261. Prerequisite(s): OPTI 6102 and OPTI 6104. Stochastic processes. Second order coherence of scalar and vector wavefields, radiation and states of coherence. Quantum wavefields.
Course(s): OPTI 8271. Prerequisite(s): OPTI 6101, OPTI 6102, and OPTI 6104. Advanced study of electromagnetic wave propagation, stratified media, physics of geometrical optics, polarization and crystal optics, absorption and dispersion, interference, propagation and diffraction. Three lecture hours per week.
Course(s): OPTI 8281. Prerequisite(s): OPTI 6102. Selected experiments in areas of modern optics such as fiber optics, interferometry, spectroscopy, polarization, optical metrology, and holography. Six laboratory hours per week.
at the Nanoscale. (3) Cross-listed Course(s): OPTI 8301 and
Course(s): OPTI 8302, CHEM 6102, and NANO 8102. Nano-optics (near-field optics, limits of lithography masks, nano-dots and nanoscale optical interactions). Nanoscale mechanics. Nanotribology. Biological and biologically- inspired machines.
listed Course(s): OPTI 8303 and NANO 8203. Effective strategies for designing and writing research proposals are presented by program faculty members, and staff from proposal development offices on campus. Students work in teams of 2-3 to prepare an original, interdisciplinary research proposal on a topic in nanoscale science. The proposal conforms to regulations of a selected funding agency and must address a topic that is supported by that agency. Each team consults regularly with a panel of 2-3 faculty members who collectively approve the proposal topic, provide feedback during the development of the proposal, and ultimately evaluate the proposal. The course is designed to increase the ability of students to relate research ideas to fundamental concepts in science and engineering, to help students learn to develop effective methods of presenting ideas and defending them, to help students develop self confidence in their abilities to present and defend ideas, and to improve oral and written communication skills.
Course(s): OPTI 8341 and PHYS 6141. Principles of non- relativistic wave mechanics. The Schrodinger equation, linear harmonic oscillator and WKB approximation. Central forces and angular momentum. The hydrogen atom. Applications of quantum mechanics in materials and optics.
ECGR 6132, ECGR 8132, OPTI 8371, and PHYS 6181. Crystal structure. Electromagnetic, electron, mechanical, and elastic wave interactions with crystals. Theory of X-ray diffraction. Energy band theory of metals and semiconductors. Optical properties of solids, phase transitions, and amorphous solids. Quantum mechanics of covalent bonding, phonon excitation, and thermal energy. ate Catalog 2026-2027
Course(s): MEGR 6181, MEGR 8181, and OPTI 8381. Introduction to metrology and standards. Uncertainty, precision and accuracy in metrology. Measurement of size and form, computational methods in measurement of form. Measurement of surface texture and out of roundness. Machine tool and robot accuracy and calibration. Evaluation of screw threads and gears. Introduction to design of precision instruments.
Course(s): MEGR 7284, MEGR 8284, and OPTI 8384. Prerequisite(s): OPTI 6381, OPTI 8381, or permission of instructor. Constituents of surface texture, stylus, optical, atomic force microscope and other advanced methods of measuring surface texture. Two and three dimensional measurement of surfaces. Separation of form, waviness and roughness. Random process analysis techniques, use of transforms for filtering. Numerical evaluation of surface texture. Use of surface texture as fingerprint of the process. Relationship between function and surface texture.
Course(s): OPTI 8400. Prerequisite(s): Completion of nine hours of graduate coursework and permission of program director. Full- or part-time academic year internship in optical science/optical engineering complementary to the major course of studies and designed to allow theoretical and course-based practical learning to be applied in a supervised industrial experience. Requires a mid-term report and final report to be graded by the supervising faculty. May be repeated for credit. OPTI 6610. Seminar. (1) Cross-listed Course(s): OPTI 8610. Utilizing library resources, materials, and research tools. Using presentation software and developing presentation skills for effective technical presentations. Patents and technology transfer. Ethical issues in science and engineering. Current topics in optics.
Colloquium Course (1 credit hour) To be taken during the Spring semester of the first academic year in the program:
Course(s): OPTI 8800. Prerequisite(s): Permission of the Optics Program Director. Independent study pursued by the student, or a group of students, under the direction of a professor. May be repeated for credit up to 6 credits.
Graded on a Satisfactory Progress/Unsatisfactory Progress or Standard Letter Grade basis each term. May be repeated for credit.
PHYS 7000-8999 - Physics Elective Other courses may be used to satisfy elective requirements, provided that prior approval has been obtained from the Graduate Program Director. Students may count one 5000 level course towards meeting elective requirements if approved in advance by the Graduate Program Director. Dissertation Research (18 credit hours) Students must complete a minimum of 18 credit hours of the following:
Course(s): OPTI 6000. Prerequisite(s): Permission of Optics Program Director. Selected topics in optics from areas such as medical optics, adaptive optics, all optical networks, etc. May be repeated for credit with change of topic.
Engineering (3)
OPTI Elective Courses (9 credit hours) Select OPTI courses in addition to the OPTI courses in the Core Curriculum. Seminar Course (1 credit hour) To be taken during the Spring semester of the first academic year in the program:
Course(s): OPTI 6201. Prerequisite(s): OPTI 8102 and OPTI 8104. Principles of scalar, Fresnel, and Fraunhofer diffraction theory. Coherent optical data processing. Optical filtering and data processing. Holography. Three lecture hours per week.
listed Course(s): OPTI 6202 and PHYS 6202. Basic principles underlying tissue optics, laser-tissue interactions, and optical imaging, microscopy, and spectroscopy for medical applications.
6203. Metamaterials describes a new field of engineered materials having subwavelength structures, and which have electromagnetic properties not found in nature. Examples include zero and negative index materials which lead to some new applications. Metamaterials are made from "meta-atoms" which are much smaller than the
Course(s): OPTI 6205. Prerequisite(s): OPTI 8104 and OPTI 8105. Molecular optical materials including fabrication methods. Luminescence centers; quenching. Nonlinear optics, including higher order terms of the susceptibility tensor. Photonic crystals. Three lecture hours per week.
Cross-listed Course(s): OPTI 6206. Prerequisite(s): OPTI 8106 or permission of instructor. Design and simulation of optical components and systems using scalar and vector wave propagation, diffraction, and interference. The course is intended to complement OPTI 8241, which focuses on optical lens and system design using geometrical ray-tracing.
OPTI 6212. Prerequisite(s): OPTI 8102 and OPTI 8104. Theory and application of optical waveguides, free-space micro-optics, and integrated photonic devices. Fabrication and integration techniques, including motivations for choice of approach (hybrid vs. monolithic, materials, size, performance, etc). Modeling and simulation. Students will be required to work with mathematical packages such as Matlab and/or Mathematica to illustrate key concepts and to implement beam propagation/optical modeling simulations. Three lecture hours per week.
Course(s): OPTI 6221. Prerequisite(s): OPTI 8102 and OPTI 8103. Introduction to optical communications and basic communication block such as lasers, optical modulators, and optical transceivers. Review of fibers (attenuation, dispersions, etc.). Optical amplifiers. Passive and active photonic components such as tunable lasers and filters. Coherent and incoherent detection. Signal processing, photonic switching, and point-to-point links / connections. Three lecture hours per week. uate Catalog 2026-2027
listed Course(s): OPTI 6222. Prerequisite(s): OPTI 8221. Optical signal coding, multiplexing and de-multiplexing. Time-domain medium access (TDM (SONET) and TDMA), wavelength-division multiplexing (WDM and WDMA). Optical networks, add-drop multiplexing (OADM), switching and routing technologies, Dispersion management. Optical clock and timing recovery. Optical amplification, wavelength conversion, transport, and networking protocols. Broadband ISDN concepts. Access, metro, and long-haul network topologies. Three lecture hours per week.
listed Course(s): OPTI 6241. Prerequisite(s): OPTI 8102. Advanced study of telescopes, microscopes, cameras, off- axis imaging systems, stops, apertures, multiple lenses, use and selection of ray trace computer codes. Three lecture hours per week.
(3) Cross-listed Course(s): OPTI 6242. Prerequisite(s): OPTI 8102 and OPTI 8104. Advanced study of free space propagation, scattering, and scintillation of Gaussian and uniform beam waves. Random processes, weak fluctuation theory, propagation through complex paraxial optical systems.
Instrumentation. (3) Cross-listed Course(s): OPTI 6244. Prerequisite(s): OPTI 8103 and OPTI 8104. Study of instrumentation used for generation, detection, and manipulation of light in optical circuits. Topics include: ultrashort pulse generation, photon-phonon interactions, 2nd & 3rd harmonic generation, squeezed light, optical tweezers, OPO, electro-optic modulators, selective polarizers, optical switches, amplifiers, multiplexing and mixing schemes, and application of CCD and CMOS cameras and detectors. Three lecture hours per week.
Course(s): OPTI 6261. Prerequisite(s): OPTI 8102 and OPTI 8104. Stochastic processes. Second order coherence of scalar and vector wavefields, radiation and states of coherence. Quantum wavefields.
Course(s): OPTI 6271. Prerequisite(s): OPTI 8101, OPTI 8102, and OPTI 8104. Advanced study of electromagnetic wave propagation, stratified media, physics of geometrical optics, polarization and crystal optics, absorption and dispersion, interference, propagation and diffraction. Three lecture hours per week.
Course(s): OPTI 6281. Prerequisite(s): OPTI 8102. Selected
at the Nanoscale. (3) Cross-listed Course(s): OPTI 6301 and
Course(s): OPTI 6302, CHEM 6102, and NANO 8102. Nano-optics (near-field optics, limits of lithography masks, nano-dots and nanoscale optical interactions). Nanoscale mechanics. Nanotribology. Biological and biologically- inspired machines.
listed Course(s): OPTI 6303 and NANO 8203. Effective strategies for designing and writing research proposals are presented by program faculty members, and staff from proposal development offices on campus. Students work in teams of 2-3 to prepare an original, interdisciplinary research proposal on a topic in nanoscale science. The proposal conforms to regulations of a selected funding agency and must address a topic that is supported by that agency. Each team consults regularly with a panel of 2-3 faculty members who collectively approve the proposal topic, provide feedback during the development of the proposal, and ultimately evaluate the proposal. The course is designed to increase the ability of students to relate research ideas to fundamental concepts in science and engineering, to help students learn to develop effective methods of presenting ideas and defending them, to help students develop self confidence in their abilities to present and defend ideas, and to improve oral and written communication skills.
Course(s): OPTI 6341 and PHYS 6141. Principles of non- relativistic wave mechanics. The Schrodinger equation, linear harmonic oscillator and WKB approximation. Central forces and angular momentum. The hydrogen atom. Applications of quantum mechanics in materials and optics. duate Catalog 2026-2027
ECGR 6132, ECGR 8132, OPTI 6371, and PHYS 6181. Crystal structure. Electromagnetic, electron, mechanical, and elastic wave interactions with crystals. Theory of X-ray diffraction. Energy band theory of metals and semiconductors. Optical properties of solids, phase transitions, and amorphous solids. Quantum mechanics of covalent bonding, phonon excitation, and thermal energy.
Course(s): MEGR 6181, MEGR 8181, and OPTI 6381. Introduction to metrology and standards. Uncertainty, precision and accuracy in metrology. Measurement of size and form, computational methods in measurement of form. Measurement of surface texture and out of roundness. Machine tool and robot accuracy and calibration. Evaluation of screw threads and gears. Introduction to design of precision instruments.
Course(s): MEGR 7284, MEGR 8284, and OPTI 6384. Prerequisite(s): OPTI 6381, OPTI 8381, or permission of instructor. Constituents of surface texture, stylus, optical, atomic force microscope and other advanced methods of measuring surface texture. Two and three dimensional measurement of surfaces. Separation of form, waviness and roughness. Random process analysis techniques, use of transforms for filtering. Numerical evaluation of surface texture. Use of surface texture as fingerprint of the process. Relationship between function and surface texture.
Course(s): OPTI 6400. Prerequisite(s): Completion of nine hours of graduate coursework and permission of program director. Full- or part-time academic year internship in optical science/optical engineering complementary to the major course of studies and designed to allow theoretical and course-based practical learning to be applied in a supervised industrial experience. Requires a mid-term report and final report to be graded by the supervising faculty. May be repeated for credit. OPTI 8610. Seminar. (1) Cross-listed Course(s): OPTI 6610. Utilizing library resources, materials, and research tools. Using presentation software and developing presentation skills for effective technical presentations. Patents and technology transfer. Ethical issues in science and engineering. Current topics in optics.
Dissertation Research Course (24 credit hours) Complete a minimum of 24 credit hours of dissertation research.
Course(s): OPTI 6800. Prerequisite(s): Permission of the
dissertation. Graded on a Satisfactory Progress/ Unsatisfactory Progress basis each term. May be repeated for credit.
Source: University of North Carolina at Charlotte's catalog, linked per course · table learning_unit · CourseShelf publish 61
