Lectures

Teachers Val Zwiller (zwiller@kth.se) and Ali Elshaari (elshaari@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¶

Activity¶

Content¶

Lecture 1¶

Introduction: What is light?, Maxwell's equations, photons. Hecht 1,3:1-3, 3:6.¶

Lecture 2¶

Geometrical optics, thin and thick lenses mirrors.¶

Hecht 5:1-5, 6:1.¶

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Lecture will be over zoom¶

Exercise 1¶

Questions are posted on Canvas before the session. In addition to homework for the next session.¶

Lecture 3¶

Refractive index, dispersion, scattering, reflection, refraction, Fermat’s principle, total internal reflection, Goos-Hänchen shift, Fresnel’s equations, Brewster angle.¶

Hecht 3:5, 4:1-7.¶

Lecture 4¶

Optical systems: Fibers, human eye, microscope, telescope.¶

Hecht 5:6-7.¶

Exercise 2¶

Questions are posted on Canvas before the session. In addition to homework for the next session.¶

Lecture 5¶

Telescope, aberrations, optical tweezers, near-field optical microscope, resolution.¶

Hecht 5:7-8, 6:3, 10:2.6.¶

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Moved to either 8:00-10:00 or 13:00-15:00¶

Lecture 6¶

Polarization, birefringence, Stokes vectors.¶

Hecht 8:1-6, 8:13.¶

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Exercise 3¶

Questions are posted on Canvas before the session. In addition to homework for the next session.¶

Lecture 7¶

Polarisation, Stokes vectors, retarders, elasto-optic, magneto-optic and electro-optic effects, optical activity, LCD.¶

Hecht 8:7, 8:10-13.¶

Lecture 8¶

Jones vectors. Quantum entanglement, Bell measurement¶

Exercise 4¶

Questions are posted on Canvas before the session. In addition to homework for the next session.¶

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Lecture 9¶

Interference, temporal and spatial coherence, double-slit experiment, Michelson interferometer. Hecht 9:1-4¶

Lecture 10¶

Diffraction, single slit, double slit generalization to many slits, spectrometers 10:1-2¶

Exercise 5¶

Questions are posted on Canvas before the session. In addition to homework for the next session.¶

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Answering questions from last session.¶

Lecture 11¶

Fourier optics. Hecht 10:2, 11:1-3.¶

Fabry-Perot interferometer. Hecht 9:6¶

Exercise 6¶

Questions are posted on Canvas before the session. In addition to homework for the next session.¶

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Answering questions from last session.¶

Lecture 12¶

Holography, Michelson stellar interferometer.¶

Hecht 13:3, 12:5¶

Exercise 7¶

Questions are posted on Canvas before the session. In addition to homework for the next session.¶

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Answering questions from last session.¶

Lecture 13¶

Photodetectors, slow light, superluminal light, metamaterials.¶

Hecht 7:2.2, 7:4 (p. 329-332), 3:5¶

Exercise 8¶

Questions are posted on Canvas before the session. In addition to homework for the next session.¶

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Answering questions from last session.¶

Lecture 14¶

Solar energy¶

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¶