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Wave and photon optics

Type of study Doctoral
Language of instruction Czech
Code 653-0951/01
Abbreviation VFO
Course title Wave and photon optics
Credits 10
Coordinating department Department of Materials Engineering and Recycling
Course coordinator doc. Dr. Mgr. Kamil Postava

Osnova předmětu

I. Elektromagnetic optics
1. wave equation and its solutions, energy of electromagnetic radiation, boundary conditions of Maxwell equations
2. Gauss beam, beam optics
3. absorbing medium, complex refractive index, optical properties of dielectrics, semiconductors, and metals
II. Light polarization and optics of anisotropic media
4. matrix description of light polarization, reflection and refraction on interfaces, Fresnel formulas
5. optics of anisotropic media and crystal optics, polarization devices, application of polarized light
III. Interference and diffraction in optics, statistical optics
6. interference of light, basics of interferometry
7. diffraction, scalar and vector theory of diffraction, Fourier optics
8. polychromatic light, interference of partialy coherent beams, propagation of coherence function
9. scattering on spherical particles, theory of effective medium
IV. Photon and nonlinear optics
10. statistical properties of light, photon optics
11. quantum states of light, interaction of photon and solids, principles of lasers
12. nonlinear optical medium, application of nonlinear optical phenomena

Povinná literatura

B. E. A. Saleh, M. C. Teich, Fundamentals of photonics, Willey, New York, 2nd Ed. 2004
M. Born, E. Wolf, Principles of Optics, Pergamon, Oxford 1980
F. A. Jenkins, H. E. White, Fundamentals of optics, 4th ed. McGraw-Hill, 1981
E. Hecht, Optics, 2nd ed. Addison-Wesley, 1987

Doporučená literatura

. A. Jenkins, H. E. White, Fundamentals of optics, 4th ed. McGraw-Hill, 1981
L. Mandel, E. Wolf, Optical coherence and quantum optics, Cambridge, New York, 1995
časopisecké zdroje Applied Optics, Optics Communications, J. Opt. Soc. Am. A,B, Optics Express, atd.