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Terminated in academic year 2022/2023

Fundamentals of Photonics

Type of study Bachelor
Language of instruction English
Code 440-2209/02
Abbreviation ZFOT
Course title Fundamentals of Photonics
Credits 5
Coordinating department Department of Telecommunications
Course coordinator doc. Ing. Marcel Fajkus, Ph.D.

Subject syllabus

Laws of geometrical optics, geometrical principles of optical imaging, imaging with sphere area, imaging with centered set of n-sphere areas, imaging with set of thin lenses
Limitation of ray bundles within optical system, imaging faults
Mirrors
Constitution and optical system of eye, monocular vision, eye faults and their corrections, binokulár vision, perception and measurements of colors
Glasses, magnifier, microscopes, field glasses
Elements of radiometry, Lambertian sources, elements and concepts of photometry, relationship between radiometry and photometry
Blackbody radiation, radiation of thermal sources
Optical properties of materials for optical media, dispersive and nondispersive media, dispersion, and absorption of light, light resolution, optical spectrum, normal dispersion, calculation of refractive index and characteristic dispersion
Absorption of light, anomal dispersion, spectral analysis, spectral and photometric devices
Detection of radiation, radiometry and photometry, radiometric and photometrical quantities and units, colorimetry and color vision, color coordinates, color scales
Interference of light, wave composition, interference of light from two sources, interference of light from N sources, interference of light on thin film, coherence conditions, methods for making of coherence light sources
Thin films in technical praxis, interferometers, standing light waves, light diffraction, mathematical description of light diffraction,
Fresnel and Fraunhofer diffraction
Polarization of light, creation, and properties of polarized light, Fresnel relations

Literature

Saleh,B.E.A., Teich,M.C.: Fundamentals of Photonics. Wiley and Sons, New Yersey, USA, 2007, ISBN 978-0-471-35832-9
Bures,J.: Guided Optics. Wiley and Sons, Wieheim, Germany, 2009, ISBN 978-3-527-407796-5
Malý,P.: Optika. Karolinum, Praha 2014, ISBN ISBN: 978-80-246-2246-0.

Advised literature

Gross,H.: Handbook of Optical Systems. J.Wiley and Sons, Weinheim, 2005, ISBN 978-3-40377-6
Rochester,E., Vinter,B.: Optoelectronics. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, United Kingdom, 2002, ISBN 0 521 77813 1