Lectures

Teachers Val Zwiller (zwiller@kth.se) and Marijn Versteegh (verst@kth.se).

Lecture schedule check the course schedule.

Book Please bring your book (E. Hecht, Optics) to the lectures as we will sometimes discuss material from the book¶

Table of contents The table below lists the topics covered by each lecture. There are also problem classes (calculation exercises) accompanying the course.

Lecture no Book chapter Topics Teacher 1

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

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

Val Zwiller

2

3:5, 4:1-2

Light in matter, propagation of light

Val Zwiller

3

4:3-7, 4:9

Reflection and refraction

Val Zwiller

4

5:1-5, 6:1

Geometrical optics, lenses, mirrors, systems of lenses

Marijn Versteegh

5 5¶

5:6-8¶

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

Val Zwiller¶

6¶

6:2-3¶

Optical instruments continued. Eye. Aberrations.¶

Val Zwiller¶

7¶

12:1-4, 13:3¶

Coherence, holography¶

Val Zwiller¶

8 8:1-6 Polarisation and birefringence Marijn Versteegh 69

8:7-12, 7:1-3

Polarisation continued. Group velocity.

Marijn Versteegh

710

9:1-3

Introduction to interference, Young's double slit interference.

Marijn Versteegh11

811

9:4-7

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

Marijn Versteegh

912

10:1-2, 11

Diffraction, Fourier optics, diffraction gratings

Marijn 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¶ Val Zwiller¶ 13

12:5

Hanbury-Brown Twiss interferometer, light sensors

Val Zwiller

14 Quantum entanglement Val Zwiller ¶