Lectures

Teachers Katia Gallo (gallo@kth.se) and Anna Burvall (anna.burvall@biox.Val Zwiller (zwiller@kth.se) and Marijn Versteegh (verst@kth.se).

Lecture schedule check the course schedule.

Table of contents The table below lists the topics covered by each lecture and their relationship to the problem classes (calculation exercises) accompanying the course.

Lecture no Book chapter Topics Problem class 1

1, 2:1-9, 3:2-3, 3:6

Introduction, waves in general, waveMaxwell's equations, electromagnetic wavephotons

1

2

3:5, 4:1-7, 4:9

Light in matter, propagation of light, reflection and refraction, Fresnel equations

1

3

5:1-2¶ Intro g6, 6:1¶

Geometrical optics, paraxial approximation, spherical refracting surface, thin lens¶ 2¶ 4¶ 5:3-66:1, 6:3.2¶ Systems of lenses, aperture and field stops, thick lenses, dispersion and achromats.¶ 3¶ 5 5:7 Optical instruments. Field lens concept. 3 lenses, mirrors, systems of lenses, optical fibers¶

2¶

4¶

5:7-8¶

Optical instruments: microscope, camera, telescope, adaptive optics, scanning near-field optical microscope ¶

63

5.7 6:2-3 (5.8)¶ Optical instruments continued. Aberrations, optical design. ¶ 4¶ 7Lumerical 3 6

8:1-6

Polarisation and birefringence.

54

87

8:7-12, 7:1-3 (11)

Polarisation (cont'd). Superposition of waves, beats and ginued. Group velocity.

4

98

9:1-3

Introduction to interference, Young''s double slit interference.

65

109

9:4-7

Interferometers.: Multibeam interference ichelson, Mach-Zehnder, Sagnac, Fabry-Perot, antireflection coatings

65

110

10:1-2, 11

Introduction to dDiffraction., Fraunhofer diffraction, optical resolutionourier optics, diffraction gratings, Fourier optics

76

121

10:32:1-4, 13:3

Fresnel diffraction, Coherence, holography

76

132

12:5

Holography. Coherence theanbury-Brown Twiss interferometer, light sensorys

7

Week 43 Trial exam13¶

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Quantum entanglement¶

87