Optics

Timetable

15 weeks: 2 hours of lectures and 2 hours of practical exercises per week

Module aim (aims)

Fundamental course in Optics for bachelor level students (30 h of lectures - Jacek Kubicki; 30 hours of practical exercises - Karol Batkiewicz). Lecture will be supported by some experiments presenting discussed subjects.

Pre-requisites in terms of knowledge, skills and social competences (where relevant)

Syllabus

1. Electromagnetic spectrum
2. Radiometry
3. Photometry
4. Geometrical optics
5. Huygens’ principle
6. Fermat’s principle
7. Geometrical optics
   1. Deviation of the ray by the prism
   2. Deviation of the ray by the parallel plate
   3. Fiber optics basics
8. Polarization of light
9. Fresnel equations
10. Optical anisotropy
11. Laser basics
12. Image formation
    1. Reflection and refraction at a spherical dielectric surface
    2. Reflection at a spherical metallic surface (mirrors)
    3. Thin spherical lenses
    4. Thick spherical lenses
    5. Spherical aberration, chromatic aberration
13. Interference and diffraction of light
    1. Coherence of light
    2. Diffraction
    3. Two beam and many beam interference (point source of light)
    4. One slit experiment, double-slit experiment, multiple-slit experiment
    5. Interference in thin dielectric films
14. Selected application of optics

Reading list

1. Introduction to Optics, Frank L., Pedrotti S.J., Leno S. Pedrotti, Prentice-Hall International Inc., New York 1993
2. University Physics Volume 3, access using https://openstax.org/details/books/university-physics-volume-3
3. Optics, Eugene Hecht, 5th Edition, Pearson, 2016