GATE Optical Physics – Previous Year Questions by Topic
GATE Optical Physics (Physics) previous year questions, topic by topic: Wave equation: plane and spherical waves, superposition of waves, standing waves, phase and group velocities, Interference: spatial and temporal coherence, dielectric films, Newton’s ring, multiple-beam interference, Michelson interferometer, Fabry-Perot interferometer and etalon, diffraction: Fresnel and Fraunhofer diffraction, rectangular and circular aperture, Rayleigh criterion of resolution, diffraction from double slit and many slits. dispersion by a grating, polarization: Jones vectors and matrices for linear, circular and elliptical polarization, birefringence, ray-transfer matrix for mirrors and lenses, lasers: Einstein coefficients, population inversion, two and three level laser systems..
- Wave equation: plane and spherical waves, superposition of waves, standing waves, phase and group velocities
- Interference: spatial and temporal coherence, dielectric films, Newton’s ring, multiple-beam interference, Michelson interferometer, Fabry-Perot interferometer and etalon
- diffraction: Fresnel and Fraunhofer diffraction, rectangular and circular aperture, Rayleigh criterion of resolution, diffraction from double slit and many slits. dispersion by a grating
- polarization: Jones vectors and matrices for linear, circular and elliptical polarization, birefringence, ray-transfer matrix for mirrors and lenses
- lasers: Einstein coefficients, population inversion, two and three level laser systems.