Contents:
- Geometric optics, optical instruments, aberrations of optical systems, eye, matrix ray optics.
- Wave function, wave and Helmholtz equations, plane and spherical waves, Gaussian beam, polychromatic light.
- Interference, diffraction, and coherence of light.
- Electromagnetic optics, energy of electromagnetic radiation, solution of Maxwell's equations in homogeneous and isotropic medium .
- Conducting media, complex permittivity, relation between absorption and dispersion.
- Polarization of light, reflection and refraction of electromagnetic waves, Fresnel's equations.
- Optics of anisotropic media, introduction to nonlinear and quantum optics
Literature
SALEH, B. E. A., TEICH, M. C., Fundamentals of Photonics, John Wiley and Sons, Inc. 1991;
JENKINS, F. A., WHITE, H. E., Fundamentals of optics, 4th ed. McGraw-Hill,
1981;
HECHT, E., Optics, 2nd ed. Addison-Wesley, 1987.
Advised literature
SALEH, B. E. A., TEICH, M. C., Fundamentals of Photonics, John Wiley and Sons, Inc. 1991;
YOUNG, M., Optics and Lasers, Springer, Berlin, 1986;
HALLIDAY, D., RESNICK, R., WALKER, J.: Fundamentals of Physics, John Wiley and Sons, Inc. 1997;
FEYNMAN, R. P., LEIGHTON, R. B., SANDS M., The Feynman lectures on physics, Addison-Wesley
1966;