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Wave Optics

Type of study Doctoral
Language of instruction Czech
Code 480-6014/01
Abbreviation VOPT
Course title Wave Optics
Credits 10
Coordinating department Department of Physics
Course coordinator prof. RNDr. Petr Hlubina, CSc.

Osnova předmětu

1. ELEKTROMAGNETIC OPTICS
- wave equation and its solution
- energy of electromagnetic radiation, boundary conditions of Maxwell equations
- Gaussian beam, beam optics
- lossy media, complex refractive index
- optical properties of dielectrics, metals and semiconductors
2. POLARIZATION OF LIGHT AND OPTICS OF THE ANISOTROPIC MEDIUM
- Matrix description of light polarization
- reflection and refraction at interface, Fresnel relations
- optics of anisotropic medium and crystal optics
- polarization components, use of light polarization
3. INTERFERENCE AND DIFFRACTION IN OPTICS
- interference of light and interferometry basics
- diffraction, scalar diffraction theory, Fourier optics
- polychromatic light, interference of a partially coherent light

E-learning

Not available.

Povinná literatura

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.

Doporučená literatura

1. M. Mansuripur: Classical Optics and its Applications, 2nd ed. Cambridge University Press, 2009.