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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 |
5:6-8 |
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 |
|
9 |
8:7-12, 7:1-3 |
Polarisation continued. Group velocity. |
Marijn Versteegh |
|
10 |
9:1-3 |
Introduction to interference, Young's double slit interference. |
Marijn Versteegh11 |
|
11 |
9:4-7 |
Interferometers: Michelson, Mach-Zehnder, Sagnac, Fabry-Perot, antireflection coatings |
Marijn Versteegh |
|
12 |
10:1-2, 11 |
Diffraction, Fourier optics, diffraction gratings |
Marijn Versteegh |
|
13 |
12:5 |
Hanbury-Brown Twiss interferometer, light sensors |
Val Zwiller |
|
14 |
Quantum entanglement |
Val Zwiller |