Wave Optics

Type of study	Doctoral
Language of instruction	English
Code	480-6014/02
Abbreviation	VOPT
Course title	Wave Optics
Credits	10
Coordinating department	Department of Physics
Course coordinator	prof. RNDr. Petr Hlubina, CSc.

Subject syllabus

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.

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.

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