The course includes fundamentals of wave and photon optics. It is focused on
understanding of basic physical principles, but also practical applications
are included. The course is based on electromagnetic optics including
polarization optics and optics of anisotropic media, interference effects,
diffraction, statistical optics, photon optics, principles of lasers, and
nonlinear optics.
Literature
1) B. E. A. Saleh, M. C. Teich, Fundamentals of photonics, Willey,
New York, 1991
2) F. A. Jenkins, H. E. White, Fundamentals of optics, 4th ed. McGraw-Hill,
1981
3) M. Born, E. Wolf, Principles of Optics, Pergamon, Oxford 1980
4) L. Mandel, E. Wolf, Optical coherence and quantum optics, Cambridge,
New York, 1995
Advised literature
1) E. Hecht, Optics, 2nd ed. Addison-Wesley, 1987