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Terminated in academic year 2022/2023

Physics III - Optics

Type of study Bachelor
Language of instruction English
Code 9360-0127/02
Abbreviation FIII
Course title Physics III - Optics
Credits 5
Coordinating department CNT - Nanotechnology Centre
Course coordinator doc. Dr. Mgr. Kamil Postava

Subject syllabus

Contents:
1. Geometrical optics, imaging, aberrations of optical systems
2. Optical instruments, eye and vision, matrix ray optics
3. Wave function, wave and Helmholtz equations, plane and spherical waves
4. Gaussian beam, polychromatic light.
5. Interference and coherence of light
6. Diffraction of light
7. Electromagnetic optics, Maxwell equations, energy of electromagnetic radiation
8. Solution of Maxwell\'s equations in homogeneous and isotropic medium
9. Conducting media, complex permittivity, relation between absorption and dispersion
10. Polarization of light, Jones matrix formalism, polarization components
11. Reflection and refraction of electromagnetic waves, Fresnel\\\'s equations.
12. Optics of anisotropic medium
13. Introduction to nonlinear and quantum optics

Literature

SALEH, B. E. A., TEICH, M. C., Fundamentals of Photonics, John Wiley and Sons, Inc. 1991.
JENKINS, F. A., WHITE, H. E., Fundamentals of optics, 4th ed. McGraw-Hill, 1981.
HECHT, E., Optics, 2nd ed. Addison-Wesley, 1987.

Advised literature

YOUNG, M., Optics and Lasers, Springer, Berlin, 1986.
HALLIDAY, David, Robert RESNICK a Jearl WALKER. Fundamentals of physics. 7th ed., extended. Hoboken: Wiley, c2005. ISBN 0-471-23231-9.
FEYNMAN, R. P., LEIGHTON, R. B., SANDS M. The Feynman lectures on physics, Addison-Wesley 1966.