Terminated in academic year 2017/2018

Coherence and Statistical Optics

Type of study	Doctoral
Language of instruction	Czech
Code	717-9017/01
Abbreviation	KSO
Course title	Coherence and Statistical Optics
Credits	10
Coordinating department	Department of Physics
Course coordinator	prof. RNDr. Petr Hlubina, CSc.

Subject syllabus

1. STATISTICAL DESCRIPTION - MATHEMATICAL APPARATUS
2. PARTIAL COHERENCE OF SCALAR OPTICAL FIELDS
3. RADIATION OF PARTALLY COHERENT SOURCES
4. PARTIAL COHERENCE OF VECTORIAL OPTICAL FIELDS
5. APPLICATIONS OF PARTIAL COHERENCE THEORY

Literature

1. GOODMAN, J. Statistical Optics. New York: J. Wiley & Sons, 1985.
2. MANDEL, L.; WOLF, E. Optical Coherence and Quantum Optics. Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 1995.

Advised literature

BORN, M.; WOLF, E. Principles of Optics (Seventh Edition. Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 2000.

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