Wave and photon optics

Type of study	Doctoral
Language of instruction	English
Code	9360-0225/04
Abbreviation	VFO
Course title	Wave and photon optics
Credits	10
Coordinating department	CNT - Nanotechnology Centre
Course coordinator	doc. Dr. Mgr. Kamil Postava

Subject syllabus

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
F. A. Jenkins, H. E. White, Fundamentals of optics, 4th ed. McGraw-Hill, 1981
E. Hecht, Optics, 2nd ed. Addison-Wesley, 1987

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
časopisecké zdroje Applied Optics, Optics Communications, J. Opt. Soc. Am. A,B, Optics Express, atd.

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