Lectures

Teachers 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, Maxwell's equations, photons

1

2

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

Light in matter, propagation of light, reflection and refraction

1

3

5:1-65, 6:1

Geometrical optics, lenses, mirrors, systems of lenses, optical fibers

2

4

5:76-8

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

3

5 6:2-3 Optical instruments continued. Aberrations, Lumerical. 3 6

8:1-6

Polarisation and birefringence

4

7

8:7-12, 7:1-3

Polarisation continued. Group velocity.

4

8

9:1-3

Introduction to interference, Young's double slit interference.

5

9

9:4-7

Interferometers: Michelson, Mach-Zehnder, Sagnac, Fabry-Perot, antireflection coatings

5

10

10:1-2, 11

Diffraction, Fourier optics, diffraction gratings

6

11

12:1-4, 13:3

Coherence, holography

6

12

12:5

Hanbury-Brown Twiss interferometer, light sensors

7

13

Quantum entanglement

7