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Wave and photon optics

Summary

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

Literature

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

Advised literature

F. 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
E. Hecht, Optics, 2nd ed. Addison-Wesley, 1987
časopisecké zdroje Applied Optics, Optics Communications, J. Opt. Soc. Am. A,B, Optics Express, atd.


Language of instruction čeština
Code 717-9031
Abbreviation VFO
Course title Wave and photon optics
Coordinating department Department of Physics
Course coordinator doc. Dr. Mgr. Kamil Postava