The aim of the subject is to provide students with an overview of the fundamentals of wave optics. Emphasis is placed on the understanding of physical principles as well as on the connection with the application area. The subject includes electromagnetic optics, including polarization optics and optics of anisotropic media, interference and diffraction of light.
Literature
1. B. E. A. Saleh, M. C. Teich, Fundamentals of Photonics, J. Wiley, New York, 1991.
2. M. Born, E. Wolf, Principles of Optics, Pergamon Press, Oxford 1980.
3. Hariharan, P.: Optical Interferometry. Academic Press, New York, 1985.
4. Halliday, D., Resnick, R., Walker, J.: Physics 4., Prague: Vutium, 2013.
Advised literature
1. M. Mansuripur: Classical Optics and its Applications, 2nd ed. Cambridge University Press, 2009.