Course Code: PME 151/251
Credits: 2 | Practical Hours: 4 per week | Total: 48 Hours

Faculty: Dr. Gagan Bansal

Course Outcomes – Mechanical Workshop & Manufacturing Practices (PME 151/251)

After successful completion of the course, students will be able to:

  • CO1: Identify various conventional, non-conventional, and automated manufacturing techniques.
  • CO2: Explain various manufacturing practices used for producing workpieces and innovative products through Machine, Welding, Casting, Carpentry, CNC Router, 3D Printing, Laser Cutting, and Arduino.
  • CO3: Apply manufacturing principles to develop creative products using CNC Router, 3D Printer, Laser Cutting, and Arduino.
  • CO4: Analyse the different properties of various materials used for making products.


Wave Optics Foundations for Quantum computing Systems:

Interference: Conditions of interference, Spatial and temporal coherence, Bi-prism, interference in wedge-shaped film, Newton’s rings.

Diffraction: Fraunhofer diffraction at a single slit and n-slits (Diffraction Grating). Rayleigh’s criteria of resolution.  Resolving power of grating.

Optical Foundations of Quantum Photonics:

Polarization: Basic theory of double refraction, Malus law, Ordinary and Extra-ordinary ray, Production, and detection of plane, elliptically and circularly polarized light, specific rotation and polarimeters.

Laser: Spontaneous and Stimulated emission of radiation, Einstein Coefficients, Principle of laser action. Construction and working of Ruby and He-Ne laser photovoltaic effect.

Fiber Optics: Introduction to fiber optics; types of fiber, acceptance angle and cone angle, numerical aperture.

Foundations of concepts of Space, Time, and Energy:

Special theory of relativity: Inertial and non-inertial frames, Galilean transformation, Michelson-Morley experiment (qualitatively), Einstein postulates of special theory of relativity, Lorentz transformation equations, length contraction, time dilation, variation of mass with velocity, mass-energy relation.

Quantum Mechanics Foundations into Quantum Computing Basics:

Quantum Mechanics: Quantum concept and radiation, Wave particle duality (de-Broglie concept of matter waves), Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle, wave function and its significance, Schrodinger’s equations, Schrodinger’s wave function for a particle confined in one-dimensional infinite potential box (rigid box), Eigen values and Eigen functions.

Quantum computers: Introduction: Principles, qubits, quantum logic, states, quantum gates, mathematical representation of states and gates, prospects and challenges.

Essential for Fundamentals of Superconducting Quantum Computers: Superconductivity: Essential properties of superconductors, zero resistivity, Type I, Type II superconductors and their properties.

Electromagnetism: Displacement current, Maxwell’s Equations in differential form.

Nano Physics:  Density of states, Nanostructures, fabrication, and characterization techniques (qualitatively).      


UNIT-1: Wave Phenomena: From Classical Wave Optics to Photonic Computing Applications

Interference: Conditions of interference, Spatial and temporal coherence, Bi-prism, interference in wedge-shaped film, Newton’s rings.

Diffraction: Fraunhofer diffraction at a single slit and n-slits (Diffraction Grating). Rayleigh’s criteria of resolution. Resolving power of grating.

UNIT-2: Optical Technologies in Quantum Computing

Polarization: Basic theory of double refraction, Malus law, Ordinary and Extra-ordinary ray, Production, and detection of plane, elliptically and circularly polarized light, specific rotation and polarimeters.

Laser: Spontaneous and Stimulated emission of radiation, Einstein Coefficients, Principle of laser action. Construction and working of Ruby and He-Ne laser photovoltaic effect.

Fiber Optics: Introduction to fiber optics; types of fiber, acceptance angle and cone angle, numerical aperture.

UNIT-3: Concepts of Space, Time, and Energy:

Special theory of relativity: Inertial and non-inertial frames, Galilean transformation, Michelson-Morley experiment (qualitatively), Einstein postulates of special theory of relativity, Lorentz transformation equations, length contraction, time dilation, variation of mass with velocity, mass-energy relation.

UNIT-4: Quantum Mechanics and Quantum Computing Basics:

Quantum Mechanics: Quantum concept and radiation, Wave particle duality (de-Broglie concept of matter waves), Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle, wave function and its significance, Schrodinger’s equations, Schrodinger’s wave function for a particle confined in one-dimensional infinite potential box (rigid box), Eigen values and Eigen functions.

Quantum computers: Introduction: Principles, qubits, quantum logic, states, quantum gates, mathematical representation of states and gates, prospects and challenges.

UNIT-5: Fundamentals of Superconducting Quantum Computers, EM Theory and Nano Physics

Superconductivity: Essential properties of superconductors, zero resistivity, Type I, Type II superconductors and their properties.

Electromagnetism: Displacement current, Maxwell’s Equations in differential form.

Nano Physics:  Density of states, Nanostructures, fabrication, and characterization techniques (qualitatively). 


Unit -1: Matrices

Unit -2: Mathematical Reasoning

Unit -3: Calculus-I

Unit -4: Calculus-II

Unit -5: Calculus-III

UNIT-1: Wave Phenomena: From Classical Wave Optics to Photonic Computing Applications

Interference: Conditions of interference, Spatial and temporal coherence, Bi-prism, interference in wedge-shaped film, Newton’s rings.

Diffraction: Fraunhofer diffraction at a single slit and n-slits (Diffraction Grating). Rayleigh’s criteria of resolution. Resolving power of grating.

UNIT-2: Optical Technologies in Quantum Computing

Polarization: Basic theory of double refraction, Malus law, Ordinary and Extra-ordinary ray, Production, and detection of plane, elliptically and circularly polarized light, specific rotation and polarimeters.

Laser: Spontaneous and Stimulated emission of radiation, Einstein Coefficients, Principle of laser action. Construction and working of Ruby and He-Ne laser photovoltaic effect.

Fiber Optics: Introduction to fiber optics; types of fiber, acceptance angle and cone angle, numerical aperture.

UNIT-3: Concepts of Space, Time, and Energy:

Special theory of relativity: Inertial and non-inertial frames, Galilean transformation, Michelson-Morley experiment (qualitatively), Einstein postulates of special theory of relativity, Lorentz transformation equations, length contraction, time dilation, variation of mass with velocity, mass-energy relation.

UNIT-4: Quantum Mechanics and Quantum Computing Basics:

Quantum Mechanics: Quantum concept and radiation, Wave particle duality (de-Broglie concept of matter waves), Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle, wave function and its significance, Schrodinger’s equations, Schrodinger’s wave function for a particle confined in one-dimensional infinite potential box (rigid box), Eigen values and Eigen functions.

Quantum computers: Introduction: Principles, qubits, quantum logic, states, quantum gates, mathematical representation of states and gates, prospects and challenges.

UNIT-5: Fundamentals of Superconducting Quantum Computers, EM Theory and Nano Physics

Superconductivity: Essential properties of superconductors, zero resistivity, Type I, Type II superconductors and their properties.

Electromagnetism: Displacement current, Maxwell’s Equations in differential form.

Nano Physics:  Density of states, Nanostructures, fabrication, and characterization techniques (qualitatively).