Terminated in academic year 2015/2016

Physics III - Optics

Type of study	Bachelor
Language of instruction	Czech
Code	516-0057/02
Abbreviation	FIII
Course title	Physics III - Optics
Credits	4
Coordinating department	Institute of Physics
Course coordinator	doc. Dr. Mgr. Kamil Postava

Subject syllabus

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;

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