Terminated in academic year 2015/2016

Wave and Photon Optics

Type of study	Doctoral
Language of instruction	Czech
Code	516-0930/04
Abbreviation	VFO-DS
Course title	Wave and Photon Optics
Credits	10
Coordinating department	Institute of Physics
Course coordinator	doc. Dr. Mgr. Kamil Postava

Subject syllabus

1. ELECTROMAGNETIC OPTICS
- Wave equation and its solution
- The energy of electromagnetic radiation boundary conditions of Maxwell's equations
- Gaussian beam, beam optics
- Loss environment, complex index of refraction
- Optical properties of dielectrics, metals and semiconductors
2. POLARIZATION OF LIGHT AND OPTICS anisotropic ENVIRONMENT
- Matrix description of polarization of light
- Reflection and refraction at the interface Fresnel relations
- Optics of anisotropic environment and crystal optics
- Polarization components, the use of polarization of light
3. Interference and diffraction in optics, statistical optics
- Interference light interferometry and foundations
- Diffraction, scalar and vector diffraction theory, Fourier optics
- Polychromatic light, interference of partially coherent light
- Dispersion of the spherical particles
4. Photon and Nonlinear Optics
- Statistical properties of light, photon optics
- Quantum states of light
- Interaction of photons with matter, the principle of laser
- Nonlinear optical environment
- Application of nonlinear optical phenomena

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

back to search page