PHY 456 — FIBER OPTICS (CUR-470)
Summary 🔴 ✓
- Resource type: course
- Owner Unit: Physics and Astrophysics
- College/School: College of Science and Health
- Curriculum section: Physics and Astrophysics
- Catalog: PHY 456
- Last Verified: 2026-07-01
Course access
- Level: red (
Major Required) - Rationale: 300- and 400-level physics courses require enrollment in the Physics and Astrophysics major.
- Prerequisites: None listed in catalog description
Verification
- Status: verified_catalog_course (
✓) - Rationale: Captured from official DePaul course catalog (2026-06-30 discovery pass).
- Source URL: catalog.depaul.edu/course-descriptions/phy
- Last verified: 2026-07-01
Catalog description
(Cross-listed as PHY 356 ) Solution of Maxwell's equations for dialectic wave guides, optical communications, nonlinear effect in dialectic wave guides, and current research.
Hardware relevance
Catalog course linked to map themes/programs: optics_laser.
Notes
Catalog course key: PHY 456.
Provenance (promotion record)
- Promotion date: 2026-07-01
- Promotion batch:
catalog-course-promotion-2026-06-30 - Provenance kernel:
depaul/XTR-000409←depaul/SRC-001181(catalog_description)- Extraction status: linked
- Evidence packets:
2026-06-30-thematic-fab-optics-quantum-id-evidence2026-06-30-engineering-catalog-evidence- Discovery themes: optics_laser
- Schedule (capture): Not offered in queried registrar terms
- Evidence captures:
- Catalog:
sources/inbox/2026-06-30-thematic-fab-optics-quantum-id-evidence/source_snapshot/captured/catalog-search-PHY-456.html - Schedule:
sources/inbox/2026-06-30-thematic-fab-optics-quantum-id-evidence/source_snapshot/captured/schedule-PHY-456.json - Catalog:
sources/inbox/2026-06-30-engineering-catalog-evidence/source_snapshot/captured/catalog-search-PHY-456.html - Schedule:
sources/inbox/2026-06-30-engineering-catalog-evidence/source_snapshot/captured/schedule-PHY-456.json - Notes: Promoted from catalog discovery evidence packets; XTR/SRC linkage to be completed in forthcoming provenance refactor.