• Diffraction - single slit ,double slit, aperture

• Spectrometer-dispersive power of grating

• Michelson interferometer

• Fabry-Perot interferometer

• Laser Beam profile

• Birefringence

• Fourier optics

• Stoke’s parameter

• Faraday effect

• Pockel effect

• Kerr effect

• Characterization of optical sources (LED, LD)

• Characterization of optical detectors (PD, APD)

Introduction to linear vector spaces, bases and dimension, inner product, orthogonality, Fourier series,orthogonal polynomials, Cauchy Schwartz inequality, eigenvalues, eigenvectors, Hermitian operators,unitary operators, discrete Fourier transform.

Quantum Theory of Atomic Energy Levels – Radiative and Nonradiative decay of excited state atoms –Emission Broadening and linewidth – Radiation and Thermal equilibrium – Conditions for laser action –Laser Oscillation above threshold - Laser Amplifiers – Requirements for obtaining population inversion –Rate Equations for three and four level systems – Laser pumping requirements – Laser Cavity modes –Stable resonators – Gaussian beams– Special Laser Cavities – Q-switching and Mode locking –Generation of ultra fast Optical pulses– Pulse compression.

Optical materials: Glasses, IR materials, Optical, mechanical and thermal properties of optical materials,Fabrication of lenses, mirrors and flats: spherical curve generation, polishing and figuring of “Curved Surfaces” of glass materials, Aspheric surface polishing/figuring, Polishing and figuring of IR materials:Ge, ZnSe and Zns, Advanced computer controlled polishing: Techniques, MRF polishing, Ion polishing,Micro-optics fabrication techniques, Large Mirrors fabrication techniques.

Introduction to Kinematic Mount Design (Basics).

Optical and Mechanical Materials: Material properties, Need for mechanical mounts. Stress Transfer Mechanism: Mechanical Design for minimum stress transfer. Design of Mechanical Mounts for Lenses and Mirrors: Gimbal Mount, Closed form solutions. Different categories of Mechanical Mounts, Fine Mechanics design, Linear and nonlinear movements; CAMS.

Ray optics, Postulates of ray optics, Simple optical components, Matrix optics, The Ray-transfer matrix and Gaussian ray Optics, Wave and Electromagnetic optics, Elementary waves, Paraxial approximation, Effects of simple optical components on optical waves, Specular and diffuse reflection, refraction, transmission, absorption and scattering.

Theory: Mathematical modelling of electromechanical and electrohydraulic actuation systems, con- trol system specifications and compensator design approaches – Basics of instrumentation systems and transducers, classification of transducers and static characteristics, instrumentation amplifiers and filtering circuits.

Flight Mechanics:

Simulation of accelerated maneuvers using whirling arm – Estimation of aerodynamics derivatives from wind tunnel test – Flight simulation using open source flight simulator – Study of helicopter flight control mechanism – Flight test on UAV.

Propulsion:

Study and analysis of gas turbine cycle – Performance analysis of turbojet engine – Experiments on axial flow fan – Experimental impulse turbine module – Experimental reaction turbine module – Experiments on ramjet engine.

Awareness of the impact of environment on quality of life– natural resources– biological systems– bio-geo chemical cycles– chemical processes; water treatment operations, water sampling, storage, quality measurement– oxygen demand– detection of pollutants– current environmental issues; pollutants, global warming, causes and consequences, air pollution, organic and inorganic air pollutants, smog-acid mine drainage, accumulation of salts in water– soil formation; micro and macro nutrients in soil, pollutants in soil– green chemistry- an alternative tool for reducing pollution– engineering int