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 classTeacher 1

1, 2:1-9, 3:21-3, 3:6

Introduction, waves in general, Maxwell's equations, photons

1Val Zwiller

2

3:5, 4:1-7, 4:92

Light in matter, propagation of light, r¶

Val Zwiller¶

3¶

4:3-7, 4:9¶

Reflection and refraction

1Val Zwiller

34

5:1-5, 6:1

Geometrical optics, lenses, mirrors, systems of lenses

2¶ 4¶ 5:6-8¶ Optical fibers. Optical instruments: microscope, camera, telescope, adaptive optics, scanning near-field optical microscope¶ 3¶ 5 6:2-3 Optical instruments continued. Aberrations. 3 6¶ Marijn Versteegh¶

5 8:1-6¶ Polarisation and birefringence¶ 4¶ 7 Marijn Versteegh 6

8:7-12, 7:1-3

Polarisation continued. Group velocity.

4Marijn Versteegh

87

9:1-3

Introduction to interference, Young's double slit interference.

5Marijn Versteegh

98

9:4-7

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

5Marijn Versteegh

109

10:1-2, 11

Diffraction, Fourier optics, diffraction gratings

6¶ 11Marijn Versteegh¶

10¶

5:6-8¶

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

Val Zwiller¶

11¶

6:2-3¶

Optical instruments continued. Eye. Aberrations.¶

Val Zwiller¶

12

12:1-4, 13:3

Coherence, holography

6Val Zwiller

123

12:5

Hanbury-Brown Twiss interferometer, light sensors

7¶ 13¶ ¶ Val Zwiller¶

14 Quantum entanglement¶ 7¶ Val Zwiller