• Stefan Maier’s book on Plasmonics.
• Learn Lumerical FDTD. Simulate transmission for one dimensional array of microholes, keeping finer mesh near the metal.
• Study Condensed Matter Physics from Ashcroft and Mermin.
• Study Electromagnetism from Griffiths and Optics from Born and Wolf- Covered History, chap1, overview. Propagation, Diffraction, interference theories. Calculus of variations. Finding condition for path integral extremum- Euler’s equations.