The spectrum of electromagnetic radiation; Solid angle, Fundamental of radiometric quantities, Concepts of scattering, absorption and polarization of radiation, Quantitative description of radiation; Blackbody Radiation: The Plank Function, Wiens displacement Law, The StefanBoltzmann Law; Kirchoff’s Law, Radiative equilibrium.

Absorption line profiles: Line formation and line shape, Absorption and emission by gas molecules, Physics of scattering and absorption by particles, Rayleigh Scattering, Raman Scattering, Lorentz-Mie theory of light scattering, Geometric Optics.

Internal Structure of Earth:

Introduction to Earth and formation theories. Seismicity and earth’s interior. Compositional and
Rheological divisions of Earth; crust, mantle and core; discontinuities. Mineralogy and Earth
Resources. Minerals, ores, petroleum, coal and natural gas- their origin, structure and composition,
accumulation/migration, source/reservoir rocks, distribution in space and time. General physical,
chemical and optical properties of common rock forming minerals.

Igneous, Metamorphic and Sedimentary Petrology:

Unit I:

Physical properties of Sea water, density of sea water, density parameters, specific volume
anomaly, Temperature, Salinity, Cholorinity and their determination, distribution of temperature,
salinity and density in space and time, The oceanic Mixed Layer and Thermocline, Sea level
variation, acoustical and optical properties of sea water, Formation and classification of water
masses, T-S diagram and Water masses of the world ocean.

Concept of fluid, Continum model, Lagrange and Eulerian description of fluid flow, continuity,
momentum and energy equations, boundary layer theory, turbulent flow, Inertial
and Non Inertial frames; Fundamental Forces - Pressure Gradient Forces, Gravitational Force,
Friction or Viscous Force, Apparent forces -Centrifugal Force, Coriolis force, Rossby number,
Effective Gravity; Hydrostatic balance, Momentum Equations-Cartesian Coordinate System,
Spherical – Polar coordinate system. Scale analysis of momentum equations. Balanced motion -

Quantum bits and quantum gates: quantum bits, basic computations with 1-qubit quantum gates, Pauli matrices or I, X, Y, Z-gates, Hadamard matrix gate or H-gate, quantum gates with multiple qubit inputs and outputs, quantum circuits, non cloning theorem.

Quantum measurements: quantum measurements and types, quantum measurements in the orthonormal basis,  Projective  or  von-Neumann  measurements,   POVM   measurements,   quantum   measurements on joint states.

Theoretical Foundations: Macroscopic electrodynamics, wave equations, time harmonic fields, Dyadic Green’s function, Evanescent fields. Propagation and focusing of optical fields – field operators, paraxial approximation of optical fields, polarized electric and magnetic fields, focusing of fields, point spread function, principles of confocal microscopy, near field optical microscopy, scanning near –field optical microscopy.

Quantum theory of light: quantization of the electromagnetic field, evolution of the field operators, quantum states of the electromagnetic field. Quantum information processing: quantum information, quantum communication, quantum computation with qubits, quantum computation with continuous variables. Density operators and super operators, fidelity, entropy, information and entanglement measures, correlation functions and interference of light, photon correlation measurements.

Laser for detection and ranging- LIDAR applications-Doppler wind LIDAR, Differential Absorption LIDAR for water vapor monitoring. Laser application in material processing – esp. CO2, YAG , Excimer,Ruby lasers-[material processing, Cutting, Welding, drilling, micro machining] – Interation of laser radiation with matter, Heat Flow Theory, Process characteristics etc. Laser anemometry, Schlieren Techniques for wind tunnels, Holography etc Lasers for metrology – Interferometery for surface characterization, precision length measurement, time standards etc, Medical applications of laser.

 I. Introduction to MEMS and MOEMS

Introduction to MEMS Technology and Applications Introduction to sensing and actuation principles, applications, various types of sensors and actuators Open loop and closed loop systems Materials used for MEMS fabrication and reasons to select them

Design of Microstructures with specific case studies like accelerometers, gyroscopes, RF switches Silicon micromachining and its opportunities

II. MEMS Devices: Fabrication and Technologies

Nonlinear optical susceptibility, wave equation description of nonlinear optical interactions - Sum frequency generation, Difference frequency generation, Second Harmonic generation, Phase matching condition,Optical parametric Oscillators, Quantum mechanical theory of nonlinear optical susceptibility- Schrodinger equation calculation, density matrix calculation.